Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Your perceptions should be challenged daily, what you think you know, what you believe to be sacrosanct, should be questioned and subjected to scrutiny every minute of every passing day; it is the only way to hold on to your wits and your confidence in the unassuming and the courageous.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog, it is the strength of character that marks out, not only genius but the willingness to carve out the furrow long after many have the trench and found their way to a comfortable place beside the fire – it takes a Big Dog to watch the other animals in the pack resign their feelings and still have the courage and tenacity to bark and growl in the night.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The heavy heart, the relentless and frenzied attack on the nervous system and the mad, wild pulse of the perfect and ecstasy ridden; everything you want from a Lacuna Coil album but might have been too afraid to desire.
Lacuna Coil’s new album Delirium once more sees the Italian based band rage with an unmistakable fury, with wrath and passion, so much so that the passion itself spills over and takes the songs of neglect, hate and broken things into a realm where obsession lays. It is passion that the listener cannot help but love and adore, that is nothing other the festering of a disease and one with no known cure but to ride the train and urge it to go faster until the engine is ready to explode in a bedlam of sweat and zeal.
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Dylan Luster might not be a name that the public instantly recognises but the music he has created for his self titled E.P. is one that should catch on quicker than a salesman carrying a suitcase full of Mayonnaise finding a remote village that only has ever tried salt and pepper on its fish and chips.
The exposure to certain musical influences are keenly felt throughout the four songs that make up the Los Angeles musician’s E.P., there is no audible escape from the beauty that resides in the songs and more importantly in the vocals that the young man is able to deliver without impunity, without resignation of the soul and without ever straying from the line he has created.
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The tenderness of excitement is one that can only be held at bay for so long, eventually you have to give in to temptation, you have to open the box and peer, like a smiling, giddy Pandora, into the abyss and let the magic out. It is a magic, a substance of expression into which falls from the sky with proud and glad tidings the archetype of great bands The Buffalo Riot and their album Pale Blue Oceans.
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There can be no doubt that the music world owes Eric Clapton a huge and honest debt of thanks for what he has brought to the world in the many decades he has been plying the standard of Blues and Rock; without his influence many musicians would not have the rich and varied form of expression that makes the sound that surrounds us so rich and enticing.
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To be Born is to have the world, to live and make the world take notice of you is to have existed and lived beyond the realms of expectation; it does truly depend on what you do with that Time that makes the space in between birth and the inevitable passing of the sunset, worthwhile.
For Boo Hewerdine, every day feels like re-birth, an exceptional talent that keeps giving pleasure and like a new born child, one that constantly and ultimately gives those who peer over the guitar like pram, a thrill to witness the growth and strength that is evident and cool.
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The collective, whether by design or by fortune, is one that can achieve so much more than the individual; together and pulling in the same direction humanity can be seen as outstanding, of placing any slight difference aside and putting the sound ahead of the note. It is in the collective endeavour that makes the ensemble look and feel cohesive and beautiful.
Pure Phase Ensemble 4 takes the songs off the recording Live at SpaceFest! and gives it the edge of perfect madness, of alluding to magnificence and the never ending search for something greater than the individual, anything larger and grandiose, splendid and interesting than a single personal objection can raise.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
A sound can change, it can evolve and become even bigger, even more alluring to the careful listener than what it started out as, for Colleen Renison, the sound, the beauty of the individual’s voice is heightened by the band’s almost new approach to writing and it is one that sends a clear and unambiguous message to the world; No Sinner are back with bite, vengeance and maturity by their side.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When it comes to remembering when time was a little less awkward, when the sun glasses caught the sight of the rose coloured memories and the hue of recollection with astonishing foresight, then the early seventies, the hangover from the 60s glory and the children of the revolution was one in which the reverie never actually died or faded. Unlike the beige to come, the un-dramatic and undemocratic staleness that was force fed down the throats of the populace of the time, the early 70s were awash with vividness and at the forefront of that could be found the awareness of Ray Dorset and the superb band Mungo Jerry.