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The Drystones, Apparitions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

“Ghosts don’t haunt us…They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them”, wrote Sue Grafton with more than a touch of Earthy wisdom. It is perhaps a sentence that carries much weight when viewed from the spectre of how the arts can infect us mind, body and soul, and one that is particularly telling when we realise just how impossible it is to remove ourselves from the fragile beauty of the Apparitions that surround us and which give is great joy and the feeling of incorruptible melancholy at the same time.

The Drystones, Apparitions. Album Review. full post

(373 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Chris Cleverley, Apparitions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Life may start with a whimper, the incoherent but immediate call of a child searching in the new and bright artificial light but it soon becomes a tornado, an outpouring of experiences and the feeling of strange emotions that entwine themselves deep into the reservoir of the soul. It is the same feeling that one can hopefully attain when listening to a new album for the first time, the gentle beginning of a strummed guitar playing leisurely in the stream of time and letting the riptides take you where they must, where they tenderly insist that the listener’s heart strays.

Chris Cleverley, Apparitions. Album Review. full post

(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)