Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whilst many naturally gravitate to the Scandinavian and northern European countries for their metal fix and slice of branded enthralment, the fact that Greece continues to supply such a discerning supply of groups and minds that tear into the genre with genuine care, responsibility and freedom, is testament to united front the players and bands present when counter performing their northern brethren.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Before the Spice Girls and Girls Aloud and their calls to arms via the slickness of the then modern media presentation, came a trio of women who truly understood the message and the reality of 1980s Britain and who would achieve success over the following 40 years without the need to fall back on the appearance of fashionable exploitation of their younger fans.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When you have Nothing To Lose the world suddenly becomes one of clarity and freedom.
It is with overwhelming sadness that we see that clarity and freedom now as one of a loss of the physical aspect, the photo albums that no longer hold pictures of those who made us laugh or feel safe in their company, the empty shelves that failed to hold to treasures of the imagination, the friendships formed in the ether with no corporeal measure of presence, we are in a sense purely ghosts in a suit of flesh waiting for the emptiness of modern life to cease.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If something doesn’t fit, you make room it wherever you can; nothing should ever be discarded or found to be unwanted, the point of life is not minimalism, but to crowd every sector of your life and space of your being with memories and recollections, of memorials to those we have loved and sadly lost.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The enduring mythologies of life are such that we sorely forget their traditional ways of capturing an audience at our peril; for there is more to be found within our realms than many give credit too, or even acknowledge. For the hearts that dare suggest nothing can come of legend, have not had their soul inflamed by the sound of the saga ringing in their ears and digging deep into their own D.N.A., for in the epic there is an abundance of life, and it springs eternally from the fountain of the symphonically powerful.
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The cathartic nature of art is such that in the worst moments of our life we can find something in the ether or a structure created by hands in tune with grief, melancholy, or even the desperation of objectionable misery, that will raise the spirit, give meaning to the time in such a way that it aids forgiveness of our own mistakes, as much as it furthers the embrace of clemency with those who sought to destroy us.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Fifty years ago the world awoke to the sound of what many describe as the greatest concept album of all time, at a stroke the ability to place an entire Progressive narrative down on a double album was presented in such a way that to this day The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway almost has a spell of mysticism surrounding it, an air of Progressive theology that has taken on its own place in time that few albums of its genre can match or emulate.
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Embrace it all, every crackle, pop, and effect, behold the fierce nature of the live recording when it hasn’t been polished to a studio standard, for being able to hear something from a period before your time is a gift of opportunity that requires acceptance, investigation, enjoyment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Birmingham’s musical history is arguably only surpassed by the city on the Mersey, and for that its past must be respected, and that which comes from its future given a full hearing of possible appreciation.
In a part of the country that gave the world bands such as Magnum, Duran Duran, The Twang, Black Sabbath, ELO, and Esoteric, the ability to be different, to be directly involved with the pulse of the city and spread the message out beyond the river Rae and its vast network of canals, to strike a chord of your own is an act of powerful consideration; and in Solar Eyes and their self-titled debut album, the fluid and considerable vastness of the musical sense of self explodes with virtue and belief all over the aural networks and cognitive reasoning.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The point of momentum is that it must be given a reason to continue, and lest inertia or entropy emerge and eat away at the beauty of the energy provided, like rust on a steel heart, it must not only Get Goin’, but it must also be prepared to avoid the effects of Time that suggests that the end is a welcome release.