Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You don’t always need words to capture a soul’s delight. An image, a photograph that they have taken and shared with the world is more than enough to understand their joy, the resonance framed in a single blink of the eye is enough to sing songs that require no expression of lyrical emphasis. It is a rare feat to be so human, to summarise a feeling in the realm of what you so succinctly in the power of the instrumental; that is simply, enormous.
A desert flower in full bloom
Beauty so untouchable
Barbed skin and prickly nature
Through the pleasure and pain
I will be one with you again….
Circle of stones on the leyline
Eco warrior a Greenpeace Boudicca
Psychedelic colours swirl in harmony
Paper Moon bite of Origami
Child in Time, Organically
Through Rose tinted glasses
I see what i want to see!
Cactus Child
Summer of Love forever
Destined to be!
John F. Hall
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Beyond the so called sphere of influence into which the traditional hotbed of Metal in all its guises and subgenres fall, people still don’t look too closely at the words or impact made in other countries around the globe. It is perhaps a sense of blasphemy to those who see the realms of the Nordic and Germanic passion, the British and American homelands, as having something of a divine right to put Metal forward and hope that the rest of the globe just sits back and nods their head with ever forceful agreement.
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It is important to remember all that went before, when the fame and glory of art has been imprinted into the minds and the beginning of the story forgotten, the true inspiration found to be left in a drawer and covered over by images in papers of yesteryear. What comes through is a sense of magical familiarity, but one that is deeply encouraged to stand out because it has a difference, it could be subtle, it could be majestic or just out of kilter with the expectation that it blows the mind and does something very important, it makes the listener think.
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There can be too much polish ground into any album, the smear marks that make a life passionate and interesting, somehow wiped clean, the agony and the ecstasy rinsed out and bleached. Yes by all means make the record as perfect as you can but it should never be sanitised to the point of obliteration and boredom, it should never ever become the point where the world as seen through an artist’s eyes is devoid of colour, dirt or even the flirtation with possible disaster.
Not even a pen,
not valuable enough of Michael Parkinson’s
solemn delivery
urging me to grow older.
I received a letter, friendly in its content,
signed by machine, my name at least correct,
could I be worth up to a quarter of a million
pounds at the time of my death; worried
that I have the odd cigar, I enjoy
a cooked breakfast, over weight but happy,
I looked for the smaller print,
the kind in which makes you think on,
to survive and leave a penny means… what
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The sinister feeds on emotion just as much as much as the beautiful, the menacing is able to stir sentiment just as passionately as the charming and pleasing on the eye; it is why stories such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein have endured across time, the sinister gets under the skin and feasts upon the wary and the obliging, into both spectrums we all fall. Whether it is for A Ghost, A Beast or any manner of ominous creature of the dark, we all embrace its probing fingers and wish for the animalistic to devour us.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Perhaps it could be considered wise, a sense of the shrewd and sensible in which to look at life, to embrace the past and the future as equals whilst leaving the problems of the moment completely out of touch, not worth the dime that you might spend worrying about them; to look upon both directions of your life as a series of progressive thoughts and to care for them, care for Everything But The Here And Now.
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“Turn on, tune in, and drop out”, the counter culture phrase that was given to Timothy Leary by Canadian intellectual Marshall McLuhan; a phrase that came to be a certain kind of law amongst those ready to accept the notion, of expanding the mind through different means and perhaps the insight to predict the idea of a world wide web, or at least a world-wide consciousness that would have scared the Hell out of those who saw it as alien, as a danger to their own way of life.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Dark Polaris came through 2017 like a meteor skimming the Earth’s atmosphere, daring to plunge, intrepid and bold for the sense of belief, remaining intact and being seen for the grand nature that they have surrounding the two members; the aura of the heavenly is something we cannot touch as it circles around our heads, threatening to land, blistering to even think of being able to see directly into its shape and the mystery of its future.