Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is the open secrets that blind the ignorant, that leave the song unheard for fear of encroaching upon something new and untested and yet those that with even half a heart of interest initially, never to fail to find the whole picture, the entire song played with passion, a joy and a source of bliss to find wonder within.
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It is the season to be jolly, to eat, drink and be merry, to frown upon those that find the Christmas spirit more than a little agitating and for the absurdity of walking through a shopping centre anywhere in the country and being bombarded by the dream of capitalism in red and white hats. It is the season in which all good girls and boys get presents that they truly know deep down inside that their parents cannot afford. It is the season in which we have arguably forgotten the truth of it all, that peace is a not a commodity that is stacked upon a shelf with a price tag emblazoned with the legend “Christmas bargain, two for one special”…it is no wonder that more people are turning their backs upon it all.
Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 8.5/10
It is always in the best intentions that a single flashlight being seen on the horizon, that the silence of the bleakest moment is infused by the sighting of a match being struck, or the opportunity that arises to get bearings from the sudden flash of lightning on the wildest of nights can do for the soul; it is in those intentions to that ask of you to return to some distant safety, that ask you to return to the light.
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Whether you look at a map and see the U.K. or the British Isles, what should come across is not space or land, the internal politics or conquests of ages past, but the differences in culture and sophisticated musical refinement should come bounding across. From the tip of Cornwall and the southern beauty of Guernsey as they jut out into the Atlantic Ocean and English Chanel with pride and impunity, up to the outlaying crops of land that have more in common with our Nordic cousins and the streak of fierce musical enjoyment thrust into their soul, there truly is more to this land that what can ever be seen on a map.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Not everyone will have heard of Bakersfield but its influence is not to be underestimated on the world of music and whilst that world may be looking as if it times it is stalling, that the residue of backward looking and non-progressive music politics can at times hinder. One band that takes the step forward is L.A.’s Speedbuggy USA and in South of Bakersfield the homage to the home of Twang is a welcome and fulfilling experience in which the listener feels grateful for the band’s punk country outlook.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Long before music seemed to just pop out of the air, that it somehow became the thing to have everything within a hair’s breadth of being deleted by the slip of an over anxious finger, music would be stacked with pride on creaking shelves, pristine, worn, cared for, over-played and in so many different versions that communication was never a dull art form. In this sanitised world of music mischief, a song sometimes doesn’t airplay in a home, it stagnates and grows cold and like a person who never gets to be with another, music that should be loved just becomes another set of Songs From The Shelf.
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To forgive, perhaps the greatest act someone can bestow upon another human being, arguably the noblest that can be seen to be offered between two people without the sentimentality of going to bed passing between them and yet so few in the modern age can find the courage to throw themselves upon the mercy of another soul or indeed to take the hand of another and with the solemnity of a once regal act of attrition, tell them that they are Forgiven.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You are warned of the Undercurrents when swimming in fast changing tidal rivers, the riptides that can pull you in, leave you breathless and feeling out of control; it is the very act of nature at its wild and wonderful best that makes it so tempting and alluring. Listening to Amy Duncan could be seen as having the same effect.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The ties that bind the cities of Liverpool and Birmingham might not be at first sight as important as those perhaps that see the two Liver Birds almost swoon at the thought of sharing heritage with The Empire State Building, Central Park and the French mistress that greets the entire world upon its arrival, but the ties are there, musically they can be seen as being nearly inseparable.
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There is something just right about the way that Anti-Flag conduct their lives when it comes to recording music and performing a live set, it is almost as if the stance against anything that comes across as main stream or has even the barest whiff of corporate attached to it, is to be shunned as far as it can go and then given the nod of ridicule just to annoy it further.