Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
From a certain height you can see the whole of creation that stretches ahead of you, and what you left behind with clarity; no longer stuck between a rock and a hard place, A View From The Top Of The World is the vantage point where all can make sense, or at least seem that way as you balance belief and argument in one hand, and in the other you offer your soul to the winds and the music exploding out of ever sinew and muscle.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There are great swathes of people, billions across the world, who will look at a task or a project and then be put off by the time it takes to complete it. Time, they say, is too short to build a bridge across a raging river, and it will interfere with all I do, meaning that they just don’t recognise that by building the bridge, they don’t have to remain, glued to all that they ever knew, and will know.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A concept album is an experience in which some fans love to immerse themselves into and others, arguably with more demands on their time or the relentless march of the quick sound bite has taken its progressive toll on the concentration levels might curse their fortune to have to take in the new Dream Theater album, The Astonishing.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 11th 2011.
Mike Portnoy may have gone, but for anyone who thought the band might fall apart or worse become an irrelevance without him simply do not get Dream Theater and their gargantuan talent that lurks behind every album. In the inspired titled new album A Dramatic Turn of Events, that almost unique style and blend of superb musicianship and the taste for splendidly indulgent lives on.