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Heaven forbid the day when there is too much great music being produced that you find you cannot keep up with it all. Making time for an album should be savoured, it should want to be played at the right moment, not when fashion dictates. In that moment occasionally a beautiful album may slip through the net, not because you have forgotten but because the time never felt quite right in which to slip into the words of someone so talented a song writer.
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There is no other way to write it down, a statement, that unless something the internet decides that enough is enough and crawls off to be superseded by pure thought, should stand for all time, the combination between literature and Folk/Rock music in Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith is one of the albums of the year.
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Somewhere in the recesses of the mind, creativity can sparkle and take hold of a person. Once there it is near impossible to ever let it go back to being a dormant thought, unspoken and unloved. Even the most uncreative, unquestioning person in the world may find the small nagging voice speak softly but with purpose asking, begging to be set free, to fulfil something other than being an unthinking cog with no shred of inspiration. When the abundance of creativity is given full flow from a set of artists or musicians, the question should be, why might you want to put it away when you can create something rather marvellous?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Take the mightiest roar from the express train that hurtles past you at 100 miles an hour at your local railway station and mix it with the romance and visual sense of a tropical thunderstorm in full force. That image is part the way to something that your jaw might just drop to as you take in the absolute power of nature and with that your some way to the effect that Michael Schenker and his latest album Bridge the Gap will leave you with.
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It is always heartening when you hear a band or artist bemoan the way that television and certain people making money from it has come to define music to a certain percentage of the population, so much so that you want to grab the musicians by the hand, shake it with vigour and a smile on your face and wish them all the luck in the world as they take on the televised corporation.
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There is a consensus amongst many that Christmas has become too dominated by the idea of want, of commercialism bathing in some sort heavenly glow answering all the problems of the world with just a little help from a couple of double A batteries. It could be argued that is why so many have turned away from whichever deity or religion they were bought up to observe and openly state so in the national census. The often repeated music that gets released and played ad infinitum over many high street shops plays a hand in the apathy that is felt, come spend your money on gifts people don’t particularly need whilst you grow ever more weary of hearing the soundtrack to the season, shop after shop.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The profusion of great music that has come out of Scandinavia this last year, especially from its Metal genres is almost an embarrassment of riches. It has been relentless, a Metal take over from the traditional homes of the field in which for the vast majority of groups from the U.K. and America, with some very obvious exceptions, have been left floundering in their wake.
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The easiest thing in the world is to dismiss somebody’s music just because they are singing or performing in a different language, it is something that at times and no matter whom you are that we are guilty of. So much easier to fall into the trap of playing a track that you are so comfortable with that every note and nuance has been heard a million times before. Occasionally a song, a group or even an album might cross over into the subconscious and gets mass approval; however it seems to be as rare as hen’s teeth unless you live in a country where the population are so adept at understanding more than their own mother tongue.
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Fun On Earth has been years in the making so many years in fact, that if it was a musician from almost any other band who had forged a respectable solo career, the fans might have drifted on and found a new hero to relish in. This though is Roger Taylor, a man who has been at the heart of British Rock for 40 years, a man who can turn up at Foo Fighters gig, a group not known for their shortage of drumming talent, and give a blistering display and who also arguably had the more prolonged success away from Queen than the three other members of the iconic group.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
There always seems to be debate on the links between Metal and the art of Progressive Rock. There are many bands that have perfected the lofty ideal that criss-crosses two outwardly disparate genres, the blurring and adding to of the ability to tell a story over the course of an album to the hard edge, the absolute limit of Metal technical adeptness.