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Joshua Burnell, The Road To Horn Fair. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They urge you to take the road less travelled, that the one that everybody uses is worn out, the feet that scuff and kick up the dust because all and sundry have gone that way before and yet the one less explored can also seem stale, everybody knows it is there, you can see the edges of the overgrown bushes and the webs that have been weaved in comfort, undisturbed, busy, never ending. What is perhaps required is one which takes you to a place of magic, the approach to an open mind, to a parade of colour and a carnival of folk mystique, The Road To Horn Fair is one such walk of life to stroll smiling towards.

Joshua Burnell, Into The Green. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It comes out of the blue, the element of exquisite surprise that hits on the type of scale when Jethro Tull brought out Songs From The Wood, when Genesis launched Selling England By The Pound onto an unsuspecting world or when the great 70s Progressive Rock explosion looked to any number of bands willing to explore the English, British Pastoral tradition. The fusion of Folk with the tantalising expression of Rock thrown in so heavily that it was as beautiful to listen to as a dawn chorus after the worst storm and being thankful to see the sun rise in the East.