Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Samantha Fish’s track record has been nigh on exemplary, every album, every collaboration, has been immersed in detail and insight; it is proof that alongside others who have given the Blues, not only a rebirth, but a reinvention in the 21st Century, that given the right person and their determination the genre can exist and flourish in a world now dominated by soundbites and ten second videos designed for the mass population.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The continual praise we lay at the feet of some artists is always a pleasure, it is a reminder that constant practise and unbound talent go hand in hand, that it is an even split between dedication and release of emotional endurance, and in Maddison Breen’s latest single Odesa, the beating heart of fearlessness and objectivity in truth is unrepentantly gorgeous.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Long After The Fire turns to embers, we can still resurrect the feeling and the emotions felt as the shadows thrown against walls and our souls make us feel the comfort of warm memories, of connecting us to a past where myths and magic were concocted and spoken of in reverential tones, and where those that whispered of images and spirits could be seen as the perceptive wise people of our times.
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There is no doubt that Blues as an artform needed to reinvent itself in the 21st Century as it found itself on the point of collapse, of suffering self-destruction to its lack of ability to coax and lure new fans to its ailing body. There is assurance that Blues was dying, and even a resurrection of the genre would only give it a limited time scale of survival as decent and legends remained, but nobody was willing to take their place in the heated arena.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If you’re part of the in-crowd then you’ve wasted the opportunity life affords you to be a cynical individual, to feel the desire of the recklessly abandoned and the fiercely misunderstood; for nothing feels quite so good as understanding that refusing to play the games of those who only want to be there for the chance to show their face in the limelight is arguably the only church you are require to worship in.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The great survivor of the Psychedelic Rock era, one of the true godfathers of guitar’s sweet embrace as a means of expression and conveyer of emotions, Robin Trower’s continual presence at the heart of the music is to be admired and celebrated, and the fact that he prodigiously focuses his attention on giving his audience his all is nothing short of fantastic, and one in which his new album, Come And Find Me, adds yet again a figure of respectable insight to the application of the art he is credited rightly as being one of the men responsibility for its accessibility.
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The flesh of any art should always be ripe, ready to consume, appealing to the eye and one that draws you in to see below the surface, wanting to devour the core, to drain the pulp and squeeze the very life out of it so that you can feel the soul being refreshed; much like the attraction of a succulent fruit on offer in a grocers shop, we are pulled in by the vision, no matter what the underneath may contain.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Rock in all its form is not just a varying degree of sound and sub genres, it is an expression of underlaying anger shrouded with beauty, it is the death of boredom, the extinguishing of the beige, and the erasing of languid tedium. In the heat of this beating communication the pulse raises, the fire that was on the verge of being stubbed out, suddenly reignites because of the infectious sound that hits us hard in the face with a slap, and holds us with the ferocity of love; and whilst some might exclaim it as noise, those souls caught in its incredible crossfire can only say Let’s Call It Rock ‘N’ Roll.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Freedom is an illusion in our modern day society, only in our thoughts can we truly be at rest from the constant attack on our souls, on our beliefs, and even then the powers that be will always find a way to turn you into a criminal; the thought police, so envisioned by the great George Orwell, are only ever a step away from complete control.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
What we miss is Discipline in every avenue of life, it is not a matter of authoritarian control but a state of being that oversees our potential, the person we can be if we master both chaos and consistency as one equal partner, if we can feel the inspiration and creation in one visual exercise of unregulated ambition.
For the foursome that make up the Finnish band Headphone Jacks, Jaakko Anttonen, J-P Herlevi, Riku-Pekka, Aleksi Lappalainen, Discipline is the product of what many would consider an anarchic affair of finding a beat in session, but which actually is the depth of feeling given space to treat the individuality of the moment and incorporate it into a dramatic group event.