Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is never about the production but the passion and depth of strength and fortitude behind it that makes it a piece of art of repute. The intensity that is placed into delivering what is effectively your soul in the open air, to bring the birth of your voice in the natural arena of scrutiny and possible derision, that is what makes the process all the more worthwhile.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5
Who needs a good horror story to send the chill up the spine, the encouraging shiver of keen anticipation of a set of songs that place the hairs on the back on the arm to full attention and the wide eyed look of appreciation at a haunting piece of art? Who needs a good horror story when the beauty of four female voice well versed in their craft can achieve the same effect without the need to keep one eye open and clutching a loved one tight with fear rather than affection.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whilst something borrowed shows a deep sense of adoration to another lover, there is always something very special about having the new rub along with the novel and standing shoulder to shoulder with the fresh and innovative.
Following on from last year’s gracious Borrowed & New, The Voodoo Sheiks’ latest album Voodification not only celebrates the sheer beauty of the continued mix of Blues Rock that the previous album gave out in waves but also the intrigue that the band place before their fans in the new album. It is the dichotomy of the musical soul, the chance to stay lauded where you have previously laid the lyrics and testament of the well placed guitar note or move on, take yet another stride towards a kind of permanent place in the pantheon before them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The last thing any Blues, or indeed any genre of music fan, would ever want is to come across a woman of sheer substance and fortitude and then ask for her to be tamed. No woman of Earth should ever have that ignominy thrust upon her, damaging her own will and thoughts; and certainly not to those who are natural and who have a Wild Heart.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It has been mooted recently that the art of poetry is one that is dying. Not only is that a preposterous notion to bandy around but one that deserves contempt by all poets playing their trade for the one perfect sentence and certainly should be treated with scornful derision by anybody who takes the living, breathing sentences of Heath Common and pays them the same courtesy that one would pay the likes of Jack Kerouac. Poetry in such hands is not dead, it’s not resting, it is abundant and playing cerebral havoc as has Encounters with Light that Heath Common provides.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is a good thing to let the goose pimples go out for a walk of their own volition sometimes. To let them wander unhindered and unrestrained all over the body and at the same feel the hairs on the back of the neck stiffen and take delight at the thought of a piece of music sounding so exquisitely haunting, that it can barely be contained.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
What difference does a name truly make, especially when it gets changed? In some cases it cause the implosion, it can smack of pandering to a section of the market that might be left confused by the seemingly random nature of it all and taken to the extreme, can lead to a barren wilderness.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
For the vast majority of the time what is needed from music is the ability to knock the door of complacency down so far and fast that it splinters, fractures and disintegrates into sawdust. To take on the comfortable and undeservingly content is a right that many dare not venture into and yet, especially at this time of year when the ballot boxes of discontent are brought out with alarming military-like precision. Thankfully Manchester’s The Falling understand that to bring such things to the attention of music lover is their inalienable right.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
If the album title and cover from the Master Thieves’ latest offering is meant to be radical and hark back to an age where the utopian future and scary brutal smell of dystopian realism can be seen hand in hand, then News From Nowhere not only succeeds, it positively smiles at its own industry and clever analogy. It is the type of presentation, both on the outside and more importantly on the C.D. that the listener cannot help but be intrigued by and place quite high on the to do list.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Everything has its time; it’s a fundamental law of the Universe that dare not be broken. Stars soon collapse under their own weight or burn up more fuel than they can ever hope to exist upon. There are endless rainy days that ruin a school summer holiday, soon dry out in time for that one perfect day in which the stolen kiss and furtive smile are the makings of a story that will regale all as soon as the dinner bell rings and empires, even musical ones, soon fade into the obscurity that Time allows them.