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Away from the release of I Am A Man With A St. Tropez Tan’s Just A Ghost, Rick Senley’s avant-garde recording dealing with fractured nature and disturbed nightmare thoughts, stands another album that raises the shackles on the back of the neck whilst gently lulling the listener with thoughts of the time to come to us all, Music For Voyeurs…The Long Sleep.
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In the end it doesn’t matter where you are from, that really is not the point as you can be born in one city and then move the next day. What it comes down to is where you have felt comfortable in your life and what you achieve whilst you live there and what you leave behind. The three men that make up the folk band Gary Maginnis & The Like certainly have that left the very best part of them in the North-West of England whilst retaining that singular splendour of Belfast very much in their hearts and in their ability to tell a story, nowhere is this more exemplified by their new release of Ghost Town Blues.
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Somewhere in the deepest darkest parts of the North, away from the bright lights of Manchester, the larger, older and sometimes forgotten mill towns that cut into the countryside that borders Yorkshire and its bitter but sometimes friendly rival Lancashire, a sound is stirring. Some great acoustic music is finding its way out of the moorlands and into the thoughts of the wider world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The one thing you can be sure of listening to The Midnight Ramble’s new album is that throughout the three new songs on offer and the elegantly captured live set is they don’t consider this in any way to be a ramble, a quiet stroll or saunter on a summer’s day taking in the sights after what has been a long cold winter in search of that elusive sunshine. High Time/Live is a statement, a jive on the promenade, an exertion of sound that mocks a sub four minute mile as being too slow and dull.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Like a well-kept 20 year old bottle of finest malt being poured out without impunity, you know as soon as you take off the protective casing and put on the new C.D. by Queens Of The Stone Age, Like Clockwork, sitting comfortably on your bed or in your favourite armchair that what you will soon be enveloped by the heady aroma, the intoxicating aroma and reckless indomitable spirit filling every sense possible and a few more besides.
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Thirty years after Dave Mustaine was sacked by Metallica, it seems as if the crown prince of Thrash can finally look back on the intervening years and sit back and think to himself that somewhere along the line, he triumphed. Not that there was ever a final goal of that kind lurking between two of the big four of American Thrash Metal but the grip satisfaction that since 1992 Megadeth have had nine top-20 U.S. albums on the bounce must keep him going and if there is any legitimacy and heart in the American market, as well as here in the U.K., then Super Collider will make it the seemingly impossible 10.
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Long live Queensryche…no matter which version you end up following. Due to a very public falling out there are now two versions of the group and the former lead vocalist of the original band, Geoff Tate, the man who made the lyrics sing as if pursued by hoards of irate angels robbed of their vocal cords, has returned with his version of this new Queensryche’s first album Frequency Unknown and that is where the confusion starts in earnest.
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As Metallica’s St. Anger turns ten years old it is worth remembering that upon release it polarised views of critics and fans alike. There were those that admired the stark honesty that Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and especially vocalist James Hetfield tried to convey after many years away from the studio. For others it was a departure they couldn’t cope with, the hard beating disturbed heart that was evident throughout the metal beasts first four albums had at first been replaced by a radio friendly outlook that bought extra fans to the band but also grinded the teeth of those who had come to expect a blistering hardcore sound on any album and then the further departure as they went more commercial. Something was lost between …And Justice For All, the so called Black album, Load/Reload and then in 2003 the album that sounds as clear as mud, St Anger.
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Even after a couple of albums it is impossible to ignore the song-writing talent that lives and breathes in the very heart of Susan Hedges. She impossible not to love, a piece of Liverpool that might go unnoticed by the greater population of the country but in the city she calls home, that talented is appreciated and nurtured.
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In modern day blues, anything really that fits neatly or even indirectly into the genre post the new Millennium, Walter Trout perhaps only stands behind the legendary Joe Bonamassa and Robert Cray in the queue of great Blues guitarists. His own course has been guided over the last few decades and like his previous album, Blues For The Modern Daze, Luther’s Blues will further enhance this musician’s already sky high reputation.