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If Ian Siegal doesn’t know how he does it then what hope is there for the rest of us? Then to be fair, as long as Ian Siegal can do it then all we have to do is sit back and enjoy the gravel toned singing Bluesman as he continues to thrill fans and live audiences.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are many times that you can listen to a new band and think if only you had been around a few years earlier, you would have been massive. Regardless of what you think of the groups, musicians, boy bands, girl singers, the sometimes baffling and occasionally downright insulting that has graced the British pop charts since 1988, at times you find a nugget so good that you can but hold it close and hope they do well.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Where do you go when for the last few years you have had just the most incredible success and plaudits falling over themselves to place the band you are in as one of the most of the important of the first past of the 21st Century? Probably the only sane answer would be to tear it all down and rebuild again and that is exactly what Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham have done with their new music offering California Breed and their debut self-titled album.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10
The soft delicate guitar fused with a the coming out of a serene waking dream and accompanied by a set of vocals that could lull you into believing all is well with the world is perhaps the only way in which to pay respect to Mark Harrison and his new album The World Outside.
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The dreaming spires that greeted Adam Barnes’ E.P. Blisters seem to bow in reverence once more as the young musician from Oxford releases his debut album The Land, The Sea & Everything Lost Beneath.
It is obviously only an analogy, however for anyone who has spent time in the jewel of the South of England or indeed may be only acquainted with the city through watching episodes of Morse, Lewis or Endeavour will realise that apart from the architecture, the scholarly learning and the chance to sip ale in some of the finest public houses in the country, the music world rarely gets a mention unless it is in the hushed tones of worship at the feet of long since departed composers or in the greater admiration of Radiohead. For Adam Barnes to buck that trend is nothing more than a true delight.
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You can only imagine what goes in the minds of musicians before the On-Air sign goes to red, the dawning realisation that this is the moment in which to shine or even fall, the many questions that buzz like pregnant Queen Bees and spawning more and more self-interrogations and pricking the conscience in their own self-defence.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The news that Tori Amos had hit a sort of wall in her music must have by-passed everyone who has listened to her music over the last couple of years and last few albums. Taking time to listen to anything she has produced in that time period can only lead to the scratching of heads and slight bewilderment at the thought. For in Unrepentant Geraldines Ms. Amos has produced yet again arguably one of the finest albums you will hear all year.
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When you find something so entrancingly unique, so wonderfully odd and unconventionally offbeat you just have to embrace it, nourish it and hope that it stays the distance and others see the musical imagery on offer. It arguably doesn’t come any more unique than Whiskey Moonface’s debut album One Blinding Dusky Dusk.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You don’t get much fresher than Kenny Wayne Shepherd when it comes to bringing out an album of exquisite note only a few short months after being part of the supergroup The Rides’ magnificent piece of work Can’t Get Enough. For fans of Kenny Wayne Shepherd that really shouldn’t be a surprise as Goin’ Home is an album that is delivered with the same strutting style, the same admirable honesty as you would hope to find attached to each person who signed the Declaration of Independence.
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It can be infuriating when going to the theatre, in any form or of any size, hearing a superb piece of music which captures the play in all its glory and then realising that you will probably never be able to hear it again unless the company get together and try to evoke the feeling that was hopefully felt by all.