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Inside View. Let Go. Album Review.

Originally published on L.S. Media. July 23rd 2012.

Inside View, Let Go. Album Review.

L.S. Media Rating ****

There is something rather deliciously and creatively cool about Inside View’s full debut album Let Go.  After a few years of releasing the obligatory e.p’s  it was perhaps time that the band consisting of Anthony O’Brien on vocals and guitar, Danny Heaton on guitar and vocals, Johnny Waring on bass and vocals and Sean Murphy on drums, released an album to an awaiting world and the result is  a record of some magnificence and beauty.

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(326 words, 1 image, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Blur, Parklife. 21st Anniversary Box-Set Editions. Album Review.

Originally Published on L.S. Media. 30th July 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Parklife was Blur’s third studio album and from the moment the listener heard the now classic beginning, they realised that not only was it a winner, a piece of recoding history given to the fans by the musical equivalent of Prometheus, but that it also set the band finally on the road to being a class act. What nobody foresaw, no-one at all, was how it would go on to define a decade and a generation aching the get away from the pop driven banality of the last couple of years and endless soap opera stars turned singers.

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(982 words, 1 image, estimated 3:56 mins reading time)

Blur, The Great Escape. 21st Anniversary Edition. Album Review.

Originally Published on L.S Media. 30th July 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

It may have led to the most over-hyped moment in music since the Beatles/Stones battle to win fans in the sixties but Blur’s The Great Escape, the fourth studio album to get the 21st Anniversary edition make over, stands out as possibly the most cohesive, most entertaining and slyest dig at British life that the band produced.

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(828 words, 1 image, estimated 3:19 mins reading time)

Blur, Blur. 21st Anniversary Box-Set Edition. Album Review.

Originally published on L.S. Media. 31st July 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****

Another transformation for Blur for the self-titled 1997 fifth album, gone was the cheekiness, the underhand scathing appeal of the last two records and in its place something darker, more agile and strong sounding took hold.

Blur, Blur. 21st Anniversary Box-Set Edition. Album Review. full post

(639 words, 1 image, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)