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From Out Of Nowhere can come, if we are fortunate, illumination or belief, if we are ill-fated to find that nowhere is where we could be heading, then belief in the way we have lived can be considered nothing, a personal trip in to the void of expression and the blackness of the times we inhabit.
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You can signal all you want the reasons of desire but if you don’t make it clear enough then you will always fall into the realm of bad habits, rather than experiencing the pastures which feed the New Ways of thinking.
Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk has found that place in which the different approach is one of virtue and disregards cynicism, and in his follow up to the album Twin Solitude, what comes across is a series of commentaries but with the edge of virtue attached to them, a voice that edges between the strength of truth carried by the likes of Leonard Cohen and the beauty that was gifted to Art Garfunkel and a set of songs that are to be held as if placed in your hands with care, to nurture and to set free.
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It is only in retrospective that we can see all that was built before we arrived on the scene, that we can fully understand what has been created, and the longer the endeavour, the more fruitful the discovery when we encounter it. No matter the time it takes to sift through the material, the regret you may have for not being part of the journey until perhaps it was too late, all that should be considered is that you have arrived to see the tower alight with wonder and with solemnity of emotion intact.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is a special kind of confidence that cannot be ignored, to do would be unkind, to undermine a soul, and in the end only shows you up to be of a frivolous and undesirable nature. The complex relationship we have with confidence can be hindered by believing it is nothing more than arrogance, a disguise to be worn by those with nothing in their hearts but deception; however the truth is that honourable confidence is worth protecting, if it smiles and does all that it has said that it will, then confidence is the illumination that paves the way to enlightenment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The End Of Days, nothing perhaps so biblical, just a recognition that all things, in the words of George Harrison, must pass.
It could be argued that we all have an end of days somewhere in our life, and not just the sense of absolute that hivers in the background, ushering us along to the grave and the mournful cries of evermore but in that what we once listened to no longer holds us to the same sense of creative urge, that our literary tastes may change, expand, wither and die, our love ebbs and flows as if dictated by the waxing and waning of the moon; nothing lives forever. However, perhaps in the Museum Of Backward Hats it will take pride of place under the auspicious lights of an End Of Days is marked only with a smile, a sense of further adventure and one that the listener can depend on fully, and for as long as time persists.
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Cast: Helen Hunt, Julia Brown, Jonah Hauer-King, Sean Bean, Zofia Wichlacz, Brian J. Smith, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Parker Sawyers, Max Riemelt, Tomasz Zietek, Joao Rei Viller, Eugenie Derouand, Ansu Kabia, Ewan Mitchell, Lesley Manville, Johannes Zeiler, Blake Harrison, Ceallach Spellman, Dora Zygouri, Matthew Aubrey, Arthur Darvill, Benjamin Wainwright.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Hannah Aspinall, Ruby Bains, Emily Barker, Rebekah Brown, Sami Bueid, Charlotte Clarke, Jordan Connerty, Charlotte Dawson, Charlie Diable, John Dixon, Joseph Edwards, Jade Fazakerley, Grace Fordham-Bibby, Amber Higgins, Jake Holmes, Poppy Hughes, Chloe Hughes, Morgan Hughes, Connor Kelly, Luke Logan, Jenny Lowe, Molly Madigan, Grace Emily Maud, Niamh McCarthy, Callum McCourt, Jonathan McGuirk, Lewis McVey, Michael Meechan, Jack Molloy, Michael Moran, Aiden Morgan, Charlie Noponen, Yasmin Ormesher-Lunt, Jamie Pye, Phil Rayner, Matthew Roberts, Harry Sargent, Kaila Sharples, Sakura Singh-Corke, Marth Small, Natalie Vaughan, Matthew Woodhouse.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
What stirs Under The Graveyard is one of the endless possibility of renewal, not one of decay or sadness, the hand wringing for the dearly departed but instead a time in which the bells that toll in the church to sound out the glory of the immortal soul, the artist that never wants to lay down and despite being plagued by problems that floor a lesser person, still manages to drag their body through it all and give the audience yet another reason to sing their name as if venerating themselves before the alter of hope.
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Isolation has its privileges, you are kept away from the distractions that plague the creative mind, you open yourself up to new ideas that float in the breeze like a butterfly caught in an updraft and you can see the world as if it is one you have carved out of stone. However, it is also one that has its own pitfalls, its own issues of separation, of quarantine from the masses and the ones who care about you and in the end becomes a fine line between existing and the power you have absorbed by being yourself.
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Cast: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Woody Harrelson, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Alexander Ludwig, Aaron Eckhart, Darren Criss, Nick Jonas, Jake Weber, Luke Kleintank, Keean Johnson, David Hewlett, Mark Rolston, Tadanobu Asano, Brennan Brown, James Carpinello, Geoffrey Blake, Greg Hovanessian, Jake Manley, Ellen Dubin, Matthew MacCaull, Raynesa Jonas, Christie Brooke, Jacob Blair, Jun Kunimura, Cameron Brodeur, Rachael Perrell Fosket, Brandon Sklenar, Peter Shinkoda, Etsushi Toyokawa, Jason New, Sammy Azero, Leonardo Bourreau, Dean Schaller, Yuta Takenaka, Eric Davis, Tony Nowicki, Kasey Ryne Mazek.