Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is a question mark in the minds of many who believe that the melancholic sound of an artist is akin to the cry of the desperate and fruitless of those to whom only dust balls run through the otherwise vacant space, concerned only with the emotional luxury of the moment; the long term and sensitive sound is not for them, but for all others it is a staggering appraisal of their own brief lives.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
What is The Greatest Love, one we can express freely, one that shocks us and catches us unawares, one from our formative years, or the one the one that perhaps saves us when we believe we are beyond help, beyond rescue, and out of the reach of redemption?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Momentum, impetus, whatever the calling, however we describe the energy in which we declare caution against a lost state of emotion, and risk is a truth of endeavour in which your vision, your voice, can command an audience in to pushing you even further than you could ever imagine; that is the energy to which we must utilise if we wish to see the beauty of success in our life time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
How we recover from trauma is often a solo expedition, one that is not easy, indeed it is one of a road through deserts of introspection and empty isles of service stations, where the gas and momentum are out of our price range and the point on the map in which we are aiming for is on a part of the map that has been folded, creased, crumpled in anguish far too many times to make sense the solitary driver as they increasingly look for stop and help signs along the bittering highway.
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Never take seriously those who suggest they hold a deterrent, the keys to the arsenal, or the codes to launch an attack; but always be mindful, even respectful of those who you know will look you in the eyes and with softly spoken menace proclaim, “I Am The Weapon”, for they are not talking of the bludgeon, they are merely describing themselves, they are the voice that can bring down towers and walls, they are the reason that those who practise art can be devastating in their approach to destroying an enemy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The duality of the soul is not a complex argument to understand, the very nature of human existence relies on being able to see both sides of a story, to see through the forces of the darkness and the light, both equal opportunists when it comes claiming the soul of anyone, is to know of the cosmic intent of life itself. Collectively or individually, we are no more the ship cascading on broken waves at sea than we are the guiding beam from the Lighthouse On The Shore, but we are the amalgam of the two, and it is in that where reaction to the rocky times ahead are met with certainty and trepidation at the same time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To feel empathy, to understand compassion when you approach art is to know at some point you must have had your heart broken. There in the sweet surrender of the Muse’s voice that sings to you, in amongst the remains of the first breakdown the soul ever suffered, the memory lingers and it is to those sirens of expressions, the sirens who are the Keepers Of The Sea who set the seal on our willingness to feel at all times and give others the opportunity to also be charmed by the sound of waves and song.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It may be the same story, but art has a way of differentiating between acts, to separate chapters and expressions even with the text and idea being of the same sound and enquiring mind; whilst the concept album may hold the secrets to a storyboard account of a moment stretched out and given flesh, a volume is nuanced, it acknowledges the material created as having a different vein throbbing away majestically inside the body of work, and therefore whilst it occupies the same body as its predecessor, it is an animal of another disposition entirely.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To feel exhilaration and exhaustion in the aftermath of an album’s completion is one of the great emotional feelings that life can throw at you; to feel not only emboldened, but vitalised as the sweat and destruction of the pre-conceived ideas of how art can influence, guide, and threaten to quicken the pulse to the point where the blood pressure starts to bust machinery, is something to build belief on.
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It has often been announced with a kind of venomous fury that Punk is not dead, and quite rightly this argument is replete with a straightforward acknowledgement that the issues that underpinned the anger of its origins are still with us, multiplied by the excesses and demands of a political class out of control, and yet as we look back at the simplicity of the genre at its very heart, its union with other cultures and the listener will notice there is one major force the definition makers forgot; that of the influence of the groups that not only continued after the first great wave, but thrived enough to see the latest contributions from new bands stand alongside the remarkable skills of the older and the established godparents of the time.