Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We all arguably had that one parent who would describe the tangled clutter in our bedrooms as either disgusting untidiness or as Another Nice Mess, one that can be quickly dealt with, cleaned and categorised with an air of breeziness in their voice; as if a serene sense of cool had been injected into them from a source unknown.
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The delight of the pun is not missed, the upbeat tempo that spices up the air around the senses is enjoyed, and the craft that Soul Asylum place in detail as their new album, Slowly But Shirley, spins its own delicacy of allusion and frantic joy, is to admired, and with a gust of rapid musical precision the listener is thrown head first in to a groove of refuge and sanctuary that is a haven against a world possessed as it is in fury and madness.
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We can never truly explain the human psyche, not in complete assured conviction, but we can find ways to protect the sense of individuality we need to flourish as a species, to adhering to some policies that nurture the belief of community; it is a fine balancing act that could swing towards the authoritarian dogma or the isolationist policy that comes with the beleaguered and the damaged.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We are so wrapped up in the sense of appearances that we forget that to dance is not just an act of enjoyment, it is a rite of passage that serves us well long after that first fumbling encounter on the floor of the school hall with the first crush we ever dreamed about. As we move from the sense of the sacred, we become mindful that all eyes are upon us, that to throw caution to the wind and move our bodies to the rhythm at hand is somehow going to cause us to be judged, to be considered, appraised and found wanting.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Taking time to achieve a sense of glory, or to even find a way to balance life with passionate, down to Earth soul searching, is an art lost to many simply because of the decree from Government that states if you aren’t productively part of the system then you are taking up space, you are harming that wonderous slug of an idea, the economy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To be in the presence of exuberance is to feel cheer spread from the inner most part of the delicate soul we rarely speak of, let alone acknowledge its existence, and see that feast of merriment take hold and glow on the skin and the smile on the face erupt passionately as we acknowledge that if possible we could dispense with everything else if it meant we could just admit we were in love with the world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is a question mark in the minds of many who believe that the melancholic sound of an artist is akin to the cry of the desperate and fruitless of those to whom only dust balls run through the otherwise vacant space, concerned only with the emotional luxury of the moment; the long term and sensitive sound is not for them, but for all others it is a staggering appraisal of their own brief lives.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
What is The Greatest Love, one we can express freely, one that shocks us and catches us unawares, one from our formative years, or the one the one that perhaps saves us when we believe we are beyond help, beyond rescue, and out of the reach of redemption?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Momentum, impetus, whatever the calling, however we describe the energy in which we declare caution against a lost state of emotion, and risk is a truth of endeavour in which your vision, your voice, can command an audience in to pushing you even further than you could ever imagine; that is the energy to which we must utilise if we wish to see the beauty of success in our life time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
How we recover from trauma is often a solo expedition, one that is not easy, indeed it is one of a road through deserts of introspection and empty isles of service stations, where the gas and momentum are out of our price range and the point on the map in which we are aiming for is on a part of the map that has been folded, creased, crumpled in anguish far too many times to make sense the solitary driver as they increasingly look for stop and help signs along the bittering highway.