Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is a genuine light in the playing of Walter Trout that few can match or even should really be allowed to preoccupy themselves with. The light of a man who plays the Blues knowing he has lived it, not just existed in its shadow but breathed it in, made love with each note running through each finger and thrived in each display of melancholic artistry.
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The overwhelming sense of openness, of regret and vulnerability filters itself out from the stereo and plays heartbreakingly into the exposed space that is created by Gina Villalobos. The slight touch of guitar, never far the soul, asks many questions of what it is to be truly allow yourself to feel pain, loss and rejection, the rationality of self-understanding and the clarity and prerequisite of being human.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To have spent many a gig in the company of Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies is not going to prepare you for just how good they sound, just how wickedly delicious and note-worthy they are tasty a band when allowed the freedom to wax lyrically in an anarchistic scrumptious style.
There is so much right with I Love Here that to take it in one sitting will leave you feeling bloated with over listening, it needs to be savoured, to hit over the metaphorical head of those whose greed makes them uncaring and not sharing, those who wouldn’t understand the irony presented to them if served on a silver spoon with a topping of sarcasm sauce for effect.
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Whilst the rest of the world rages about the well-oiled pursuit of extravagant happiness and despair, it seems that the Nordic lands are quite happy just to get on with it and play incredibly good music. Not that they care any less what is happening to the world but it just seems they can talk about it and raise awareness anyway they can through their music so much better than most other nations.
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If you take nothing else from the latest double album released by Ruf Records in their Songs From The Road Series, then the fact that Coco Montoya is a musical genius, a work of art painting the picture that itself deserves framing, placing inside a gallery for all too see and adoring wistfully that if only you could have stuck at the lessons granted you, should be the thought that haunts you till the end of your days.
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Although Spygenius’ album The Comforting Suture came out in 2012, to find it amongst the spread out and slightly eclectic offerings on a long table, could be seen as serendipity, a moment of providence in which to take full advantage of and delve into at the very earliest convenience.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The still waters of a lake a deceptively deep, they can pull you in with their obvious translucent charm and give you hours of pleasure as you take a sort of sanctuary in the coolness on offer. Not all lakes or lochs are like this, others contain worded dangers, the keep out sign easily seen from the water’s edge and to even dip your toe in the blackness that thrives in the foam could be a hazard the lyrically unstable could be keen on missing out on.
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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.