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It’s rare that you can listen to the tracks of a new E.P. and somehow be gleefully confused for a moment in that you think you have somehow mixed up the discs and what you are listening to is the cunning hybrid of 1950s rock and Roll and a touch of Metal, the atmosphere of 1960s screen adaptations of comic book tales and the directness of a mind-set determined to stand out from the crowd.
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Behind the oblique, somewhere in hiding in the shadows and the painted references to the black and white world of Folk music stands Marissa Nadler.
Ms. Nadler’s sixth studio album follows the same unique path that she has ploughed all her career. Intelligent and heartfelt lyrics with a point wrapped up in the enigma of the feeling of enforced solitude, the loneliness that the brave and inspired crave but coming out just enough to spread a tale or two of spell binding quality before shutting the door completely.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
There is a confident, almost poised rawness to The Jackobins sound that is positively endearing. The four songs on offer by the band demonstrate perfectly that the biggest hurdle for any group or artist starting out is having the sheer guts to find their way out way out the bedroom and into a studio or onto the stage. Far too many dream about doing things, they constant urge to say yes I would be so good at that but letting the spark of ambition rot away in the corner, unloved, unkempt; only thought of ten years later with a sigh and bitter recriminations.
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Jazz never really went away; it perhaps got selective about who would enjoy it, a little choosy on who would really sit down and listen to the idea and perhaps its brief dalliance with Prog overtones during the whole Brand X era was too much for many to get into but it certainly never went away.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
In a world that seems to become more corrupt, more fraudulent in the way in the way that as people, as citizens of a global community, we are treated, spied upon, taken to task for having the temerity in poking our heads above the ramparts and questioning the right to anybody knowing everything about lives, it seems the more somebody dares pose their doubt, the more tighter the grip becomes. Told who we must hate, despise, loathe, keep an eye on for, be like the two worst and vile extremes of human surveillance that the 20th century forced upon a Europe that slept walked almost into death, too few people speak up to point out what is wrong with the world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The end of one decade and the start of another in your life always brings about the chance to reflective with what you have achieved and where you see your life going. It is only right that as you grow, your 20s and your 50s are wildly different and perhaps more contemplative, more attuned to a world that at points feels as though is crumbling down right around you and the urge to set it right for the those following on behind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are few genres of music that polarise opinion more than Rock/Opera. Music lovers usually refer to the album Bat Out of Hell when they want to show how good it can be when the right combination of perfect voice and right songwriter/producer are beside them, for arguably the immense, silky voice of Meat Loaf has never been better when he had the deftness of music skill in Jim Steinman plugging away beside him, nor perhaps when that double act was complimented by the addition of the terrific Ellen Foley as female vocalist on some of the tracks.
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There are many acts that record with a certain style, a strut, the swagger of belief and self-confidence and they are of course right too, it is what makes them sound so bold, inviting and immensely enjoyable when playing their music. Perhaps none fit this assuredness, the reliability of self-imposed perfection than Savoy Brown and the man who formed the group Kim Symonds. Coming on the back of the 2011 acclaimed album Voodoo Moon, Kim Simmonds invites the fans on a tour of the soaring Blues and marriage between inventive lyrics and the constant that resides within reinvention in the new album Goin’ To The Delta.
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A life through a cold mechanical lens; caught on the bright lights of an intrusive camera with no contract to sign or even a say in how your image is used and for what purpose. Footballers, media representatives, even some that make the notes and songs we hum along to when the mood invariably takes us have an image to protect, but for the ordinary person, the individual on the street casually walking along minding their own business, a million trained eyes are watching, scrutinising and wondering if you are going to commit an act of behaviour so shocking that it might just be on a television programme for mass entertainment at some point.
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Cambridge in the annals of music is not always noted for its association with the heavier side of Rock. The city which stands beside Oxford as the powerhouses and symbols of the English University system is more at home with being the birthplace of Progressive Rock giants Pink Floyd and of the late Syd Barrett, pop icons such as Olivia Newton John and the formation of Katrina and The Waves also feature heavily in the thoughts of those trying to work out how musically the city’s heritage is interwoven with the rest of the country.