Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There are always rumours of musical life existing in some parts of the U.K. that would perhaps come as a surprise to some who regard the big city, be it Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Oxford, Liverpool, Derry or Swansea to be the be all and end all of musical contribution to the lifeblood of existence.
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In adversity comes the greatest of challenges, to overcome adversity twice, albeit for two very different reasons is a mark of greatness. There never really should be any doubt that Blancmange bring a mark of greatness to the table that cannot be fully appreciated unless you took the band for the every word in the respective periods they have come to be associated with. Two eras separated by time, by complication and inconvenience and exemplified wonderfully by the new album, Semi Detached.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The attack from the front, the wielding of the weapon flashing before your eyes from the confronted foe is far easier to understand than the one that comes from behind your own lines and takes you down in an act of cowardice and betrayal. The foe who attacks you full on, eye to eye, is far more worthy than the that you do not see coming, it is always better in such cases to Beware The Sword You Cannot See.
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It is one of the age old questions that has bogged humanity, it is a question that has resonated and perhaps never bettered as when Hamlet procrastinated with the musing, “To be or not to be.” For the modern day equivalent, the 21st subtle arrangement of this paused thought is captured very well by North of the Mind’s new single If Not For You and its ever hanging question contained within its beautifully imagined lyrics, What’s a man to do?
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Wales has been a bed rock, a thriving hub of music for so long that at times it could be forgiven for resting on its mighty and well deserved laurels. These include groups performing with political ideals such The Alarm and the Manic Street Preachers, to much loved stars such as Sir Tom Jones and Dame Shirley Bassey and even those who should have been so much bigger, including the tremendous talent that resides at the heart of Jump – John Dexter Jones.
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It is a period of time in Britain that is perhaps less understood than any other over the last couple of millennia but it doesn’t make it any less fascinating, if anything it makes it more compelling to take it and understand. For KynchinLay, Dark Age can also represent a sense of yearning, a sense of freedom waiting to be discovered and one in which Time must be taken over to appreciate fully.
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Being young is for living and rolling the choppy waters that comes your way. It is for having the spirit of adventure than youth brings and for seeing the world for the beauty it can bring rather than the cold hard, sometimes sterile, scenes that older eyes get too used to. It is for having the ability to be dynamic and electrifying, to be able to stimulate the generation above and to move those coming up behind, youth is not to be wasted sitting round wondering where the next round is coming from. For Eliana Cargnelutti, youth is all about being an Electric Woman.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Revolution or evolution, pretty much the end result is the same, things change and the old order is wept away; sometimes into obscurity, at others into the realms of fondness and nostalgia. Whichever way is chosen, what is always needed in the dark days after the shots have been fired and before the new way forges ahead, is Strength.
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There is a certainty in freedom that music offers the listener, to roam in the imagination arguably unlike any other art form. Plays and literature take you so far, they offer a perspective but from one dominant field, poetry allows you to take from it what you need but doesn’t offer up much of the hidden author and art and photography, beautiful though they may be, place before the voyeur a moment’s frozen snapshot of Time. Music seems to have the ability to cover all possible dimensions and the access in one single line to take you from for example the view seen from the Empire State Building to the very shoreline of Lake Ontario, the dancing notes and vocal harmony acting as a conduit, a musical magic carpet, to every place.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Where exactly does Evil dwell, perhaps in the heart of humanity, arguably where ever it is allowed to take root, sometimes in art and yet Evil is conceivably an over-rated pre-occupation in which to delve outside of the psychology text books and yet somehow the many genres of Metal are always quite happy to hang their albums onto.
Thankfully in bands such as Ranger, the precise reality of music as art as commentary is taken for what it is, not shock value, more alluding to the fact that evil can be inherent and needs to be stamped out where ever it finds a hole to crawl out of.