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We keep those emotions that might disarm or cause concern in others In Plain Sight, they and we know they are there, but as long as we don’t talk about them then they at least are happy, they remain content in their blissful ignorance and you get to stew in the pleasure of appearing on top of it all, that the world doesn’t give you reason to think that it is insane, that the people who seek to cause harm have all found their way to Limbo.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Everybody will have their own opinion of what constitutes the best of, and at times the ensuing release is one created to be chart friendly, the ‘best’ made up of radio memories, of inducing the fan to part with money on the promise of a couple of rarities being included in the release, and the band, the artist, not having a single moment of input as studios and labels reap the reward of nostalgia.
Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10
If we have been fortunate in life, at some point we have found ourselves by the seaside, at the fairground, the sand and vast water calling in unison, but the smell of engine oil, of the mechanical thrill capturing our attention as dodgems, penny drops, helter-skelter’s light up the horizon, and the house of reflections, the Funhouse Mirror the stand out opportunity to see how life would shape you if you were caught in a world of misshapes, in a plane of distortion and buckling mis-representation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We must understand that the utopia we crave is a nightmare for others, for if they lose control, if they lose the ability to silence us, then they would rather burn the world to a cinder than ever give us the chance to rectify their mistakes. We are told we are not able to understand the complexity of the problem, that it takes their keen sense of business, their drive alone that can banish the problems they created and lead us into a place where time is better spent.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
However you may view life, its various ups and downs, its trials, tribulations, its fierce traditions, and its unexpected triumphs, we see the moments that pass us by and wonder what if, only to realise later on down the road that something else entirely was the reason that you were born to tackle, that you Born For This Moment.
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Written as a response to the music press as the seminal album Aqualung was still deep in the minds of the listener, Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick is considered by many as the ultimate concept recording, and whilst fans and advocates of Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway or Pink Floyd’s The Wall might disagree with loud, and argumentative vocal voices, there can be no argument that what the members of the band put together in 1972 has resonated, found its way into folk lore, has become, in a word, legendary.
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We all make that final journey, be it a spiritual encounter when the breath is short, or the reckoning we have with our past, a final moment in the shade of our decisions, at dusk’s closing eye, we make the last moment count.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We don’t perhaps appreciate enough the facility and ease of modern technology that allows us to still to be able to believe in the power of being there, that we can in part spend time perhaps with our favourite artists via a world of the unhindered view and the less than appreciative interloper readied with a supply of drinks and inane, loud conversation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The view from Under A Bloodshot Moon can often be more enlightening than that which illuminates brightly or even that which surprises in a Blue Moon serenade. It is the colour of reveal and rebellion, the phase of Earth’s satellite that conjures up images of war, of revolution, and sometimes, the warning of pleasure taken too seriously, and when that image is focused upon the desire to be taken in by the art on show is overwhelming and full of promise and delivery.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We should be grateful that we live in a time when the word mulligan can represent more than just a do over in a round of golf between friends.
An artist’s vision is to be respected, enjoyed, to be seen as the ultimate authority in the world they have created on canvas, in the darkness of the lonely hours afforded the writer as they gaze at the blankness of the screen and the pressure of bills mounting at their door, how they must envy the poet whose scribblings are never truly finished.