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Never mind ten years that have passed in our struggle to fill Time, it is the half century of existence between points that can drive us to the edge of human madness.
Category Archives: Music
Jon Wilks: Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Therapy is undervalued, especially when it is one of your own making, your own source of companionship, your own place and time finding ways to defeat the false fears and ills that cloud our days and our souls; the damage wrought by the defeat in advance, the conscious, overwhelming beating before you have taken to the ring…these are the moments in which therapy, in caring for oneself, is to be applauded, urged, and followed through upon.
U2: Songs Of Surrender. Album Review.
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A poem is never truly finished, but despite the great Paul Valery’s insight, it is, in the hands of a master, never abandoned, it just waits for right moment to undergo a metamorphosis which transcends its original moment in time, and take on the appearance, the structure of a different period in which the artist can revaluate their place in history. Poetry, art is never finished, but it can undergo a transformation which gives the voyeur and listener alike a reason to keep fighting.
Inspiral Carpets: The Complete Singles. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is a train of thought that suggests without a sense of irony that in music’s place in British geographical history, Manchester and its local area, with a few exceptions, is the poor relation of inspiring and successful bands when compared to places such as Birmingham, Glasgow, London, and of course Liverpool.
There is a physical injustice to that belief, one that does rankle even those that were not enamoured by the sound of a generation that defined the 1990s, and one that certainly should be dropped when you have the opportunity to listen to a work drenched in guilt free sublime introspection.
Ally Venable: Real Gone. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The real of our lives is in danger of being forced out by the damage and instability sought by those that practise chaos; normally shrouded in suits and flattering salaries, as they offer sounds that can’t be heard, as they sign off on a lie of art which insults rather than edifies.
The Real Gone kids to whom expressions are found in the beauty of emotional truth are forever being told they have to adhere to a fashion that is neither desirable, nor satisfying; and those suits, they don’t care because they will always find one to whom the nation will be told to swoon at for the sake of publicity and fortune.
Gareth Heesom: She Doesn’t Want You. Single Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To bring art via a medium that you aren’t necessarily associated with to the fore is to be acknowledged as a success, as an achievement, and yet there will be those who suggest with jealous feelings barely hidden, that to have a skill is to be a master of all; for they will infer that no one is concerned, no friend is bothered, and that the person you want to impress, well She Don’t Want You at all.
O’Hooley & Tidow: Cloudheads. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
It is better to have your head in the clouds than to see the depths of Hell that others will sink to as they chase dreams that are to be acknowledged as misaligned to humanity’s best interests.
Murph Bower: Juniper. E.P. Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The cleansing rituals of old have largely been forgotten as we move away from ancestral paths that once guided us, the rites and blessing that once offered us protection as we inhaled its smoke, has now been replaced by a chemical imbalance. We are healthier perhaps, but our souls have become tainted, trapped in a smog not of nature’s power and ritual, the smell of Juniper berries is no longer in the air, it is the taste of compliance and regret.
The Far North: Songs For Gentle Souls. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
What lays beyond the outer reaches could be considered sanctuary, but it is only in The Far North that truth reveals the extent of Songs For Gentle Souls and those that wish to see them succeed.
From the ashes of The Fireflys, Lee Wylding has stepped out of the embers and taken on the solo persona of The Far North, a name, a title, a declaration spoken as to the hardiness and world wise effect that the album has on the listener as the music and the soul of the performer combine with ease, sensitivity and fierce tradition.