Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
How we recognise the sense of achievement that can come from placing your entire being into a piece of art without asking if it is overblown, to be perceived as too long an epic driven by ego, by the crowd taking your mind’s lifetime words as more than truth, more than a deception of statements of significance.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Talent and class never wavers, it might not have been Heaven sent, but it is a gift to which we must acknowledge comes from deep within the human soul, and talent is the result of pushing yourself to make it look easy to others, despite it always being the biggest struggle we face; but by being constant we can all achieve a level of success that we can be likened to those of the cherub persuasion who sprinkle their magic for the benefit of all who care to listen.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The concept album is a treasure trove of thought that requires an intelligence and imagination that can arguably come from being completely engaged with the subject, from being open to treating music as you would an epic piece of theatre of a three-hour film, with absolute conviction and a faithful application and observance to concentration.
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From The Outset: A declaration of intent to hit the ground running, to display the virtue of good work that you intend to carry forward in to the world; and one that is more than a project, it is a calling of faith in your ability to be a version of yourself that cannot be denied, that sings, that plays harder than anything you have done before.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It can feel at times as if we are at a point in history that the walls of our existence are not only crumbling, but on the verge of falling, of crashing to the ground and causing long lasting tremors that will have effects on the long-term mental health future of all who walk in our wake.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Place and voice are entities we never seem to find in our lifetimes, unless we are fortunate, unless we strive to unearth them, to dig around the edges of our existence and truly appreciate that all the while it was within reach; not so much as buried, as just waiting to be uncovered by our soul.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If a legend cannot start again and once more search deeply for the passion that propelled them to the top of their profession in a different era, in a different life, then we are doing a disservice to Time. For a legendary figure to aspire to a new beginning is one of enormity, it is satisfying, and it is humbling; and arguably they don’t come much humbler than the former Doors’ founding member Robby Kreiger.
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Caught between the times of light and dark is the place where matters of perception can be honed and altered with what could be considered a human magic, and if we manage to hold back time in such a way that when we stare into the contrast of separation, we can envisage a Still Dusk, a forever twilight that illuminates the Garden of imagination that sings to us in a harmony, that can add a sense of definition to the surroundings.
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Do we ever really contemplate what it would mean to witness our final experience of dusk, that The Last Sundown we see with our own eyes is not one of mystery, of appreciating the majesty of the Universe, of even hoping to observe one final emergence of what was once considered a god peek over the horizon, but one that is shrouded by a shrug of indifference as we assume that all we have will be repeated the next day, and the one after that for time immemorial.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is only one thing in our life that is remembered more than an enduring love, and that is the break up that came before it, the moment when your heart and soul is crushed under the weight of the delusion that you have suffered that one person could have been the one, and little regard they felt for your state of mind as they leave you in pieces; the Separations of spirit are not just the acceptance of the bleak, but the catalyst to be better as you reflect on all that took place.