Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To stay and chart the events, the goings on and everyday episodes of your local community takes some doing. In a world of transience, of greater exposure to the wide world, to come across someone who captures the essence of the place where they reside in song, in the lyrical poetry and the demands of Time is to applaud the endeavour and nestle with almost comfortable ease in the songs of the characters and the scenes observed.
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A journey undertaken must be done of your own free will, it is no good doing it to please others, to find yourself in the position of making it from A to B only for someone else to take the plaudits and congratulations; the journey must be yours to take and insist upon being pure. If it is completed with grace and memory intact it is then that you can honestly say to others See Me With Your Heart, for in that personal plea comes a truth that the eyes can never witness.
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Sometimes a re-imagining, a do over or a complete overall on the original is a piece of art too far; it achieves very little in terms of appreciation and it only adds the cynic the thought, that even with the best intentions on behalf of the artist, that it is only being done for commercial gain. Of course in a world where many artists are controlled by the whims of the Editor or the Producer, the chance to take the original apart and offer the artist’s view from the centre of the tornado is all too compelling but still that thought remains, it festers and grows teeth and in the end the sound continues the same.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The jewel in the young crown, the precious stone in the armoury of Blues and the natural complement to the likes of Joanne Shaw Taylor and Joe Bonamassa, Laurence Jones offers a freedom of mouth watering ability, one that survives in the ether of the mind well after the death of the day and the dawn of a new beginning. It is to the man and his guitar, the hospitality of Blues groove that the listener finds them themselves applauding the musicians for giving them a mature sense of Take Me High.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
The Rudest are not always those who make their voices heard without shame, who find the world a place in which they speak their mind; it is usually those who hold their thoughts in contempt and who find ways to whisper down people’s ears, drowning them in bile and dishonour. The rudest are to be avoided like the plague and those who find courage to talk even with the odd flutter of disparaging words at their disposal but in a calm and measured way are perhaps best served to suggest that Rude Audio are well worth investing time in.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Paradise is only as nice as what you allow it to be; if your demeanour is set to the point of black thunderous skies and the spark of lightning rampaging overhead as if millions of gas bottles have been struck by a solitary match, then the thought of paradise is pretty bleak. However Paradise is redemption, it only takes a change of mood, a change of thought and deed and suddenly what has been ailing you turns against the tide and can be a place where blue heavens and sunshine cast no shadows.
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The songs of personality, of courage to step beyond the edge of the microphone and let the glare of spotlights, of other people’s pride in your ability shine through, is the point of being alive. There is something perverse in the express desire to only want to put your voice, your own natural stamp on the Universe expressly with the thought of money being the final result. Art in whatever form, life in all its beauty should be heard for what it gives to other people and Euan Drysdale’s Songs From The Boarwood is a superb example of what art can bring to other people’s lives.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When a city dies, when it crumbles into dust and powdered filth, it takes on the spectral and the ghost like white shade of a vampire being shown the first chinks of dawn; the vampire and the dead city, the kind of allusion to which only the last person alive can understand when all around them is the tattered remains of a faded and one beautiful glory.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Musical cartographers, those who love to pinpoint every detail of music ever recorded on to the map of the world, are always in for a treat when a new regime comes along to add emphasis to the coves, inlets and straggling shorelines; after all something new and so far undiscovered makes Maps, any map more complete.
King Harvest & The Weight, otherwise known as Ben Addy, Justin Edley and Olly Smith offer their debut album Maps as a cartographers dream, a musical offering to enrich the senses whilst at all times knowing that as with any debut, it should be taken that the lay of the land ahead is not charted territory but filled with desire to explore and chart for others who may pass by.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
The Getaway, perhaps instead the hurried departure or even the escape from the expected, for that is the plain feeling that comes across with somewhat muted apology in the first Red Hot Chili Peppers album in five years.