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John Blek, Digressions #2 -Grounded. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are many ways in which a song can be presented so that the listener feels the depth of emotions that are required to survive, to feel wanted in today’s often cynical world, to thrive despite the background chatter that gets under the skin and leaves a footprint of distrust and ill temper indelibly marked on the skin.

However, it should always be a two-way conversation that can make others of less empathic nature believe that it comes down to stroking and the inflating of the ego but is in fact the act of Grounded individuals marking time in mutual consent and one which can impar wisdom, which can offer a sense of healing, of therapy and recovery.

John Blek, The Embers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Most people will look into the fire and see The Embers slowly losing their drama and they believe that it is a sign that the roar has begun to fade, that the kindling that warmed the soul has lost its ability to instill heat into the world; nothing could be further from the truth, to see the embers is to know that fire can be re-stoked, and in the hands of one with their own fire burning away in the hearts, their own enthusiastic inferno raging underneath the surface, then nature has its own way of sparking the fire back to life.