Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For better or worse, this world is ours, and whilst the feeling of continued dystopian outlook may place our hands over our eyes as we dare not acknowledge the dreadful acts and insanity defying beliefs of many, it is a planet of great wonder, of untold beauty waiting to be discovered, and one to which we should embrace and retain despite the madness that surrounds us.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Emily Barker explores deep meaning in her album Fragile As Humans, and whilst the Americana to which she has selflessly progressed within takes its usual stance of openness and exaltation, it is to the pain of grief that the poet within reveals her world; a prolonged sadness to which music is the sole antidote, that time creates stability around with a shoulder to weep upon, and in which salvation may be achieved.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is an undeniably cool swagger that accompanies the music of Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, it has been evident since the very beginning, and those who find their way to the venues in search of brilliance are never disappointed, never found wanting, and the same obviously goes for the studio and live albums recorded by the Danish musician and the band that he surrounds himself with, for in the subtle majesty that the experience envelops for the listener, one thing becomes abundantly clear, the construction of the music is one set on solid foundations and established substance.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The Romans had the best ideas, it is a sentiment argued by many, and when it comes to the idea of allowing the year a natural break the multitude cannot be wrong, for the Earth and humanity need to return to a time when we saw winter not as one to toil the soil and break our backs, but instead all ow the darkness to be one of stories and plans, to see it as a kind of magic of renewal; the Fallow Alchemy in which we should embrace so that rest turns to creativity and regeneration of spirit.
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The connection is clear, The Big Deal have returned to the shores of the melodic fans hearts and stimulated the pulse just as the new year has barely even begun to feel its way into listener’s conscious.
The question might be posed as to whether the sound will just be as thrilling, the vocals soaring, or if the enthusiasm for the venture can be found within as to allude to lightning striking twice. The Serbian masters of harmony have not only returned, but blasted the ball out of the park with the assistance of a jet powered dynamic that truly understands the feeling and belief of being Electrified.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
How we honour those that have been part of our lives but who leave it before we are ready to understand the reasons why, is often one that is simply recognised with a gesture of acknowledgement, a note of principal that is unafraid to show the respect due, of the influence that the person was able to install in your life; and when that happens to an artist, to a group that moulds music to the benefit of the heartstrings of the public, then the morning stars and the nighttime suns blaze all the brighter for it.
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We are forever caught in a titanic tussle between the forces of evil, that of the morally right, and the judgement of our ancestors, it is almost as these other worldly entities have us trapped in a see-through prism, a triangular attack which places us in danger, the feeling of mortality disturbingly close, too close for comfort.
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For most fans of the genre the phrase ‘Doomy feel’ doesn’t quite with the narrative; it belongs more with a particular phase of Blues than it does with Jazz, and yet striding out wielding the sword of music as the protagonist in this earthy narrative comes the intimate and darkly held Argento from A.M.E.N.; a set of Avant-Garde studies in human existence that sends a delicious shiver down the spine as the listener is shown the line gossamer thread that separates the two genres as twins in a spectral march.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Punk never died…it was far too clever to allow itself to be put in the firing line of any critical bullet, it was canny enough to evolve whilst for the majority of time not selling its soul for the price paid by Dorian Gray as he dismissed the painting in the attic as a mere extension of his self, instead as it evolved it proved more reliable than the Blues which had to wait for the start of the 21st Century to become relevant once again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We don’t have to confine ourselves to the narrow viewpoint, we do so out of comfort, out of dedication and love to what we already understand, we look forward to tramping the same old streets in shoes well worn just because to imagine another world out there that we can reflect in the Wide Open Sky would mean alternating our mindset, embracing the new, and seeing all along that the benefit we believed in sticking to our in built course was actually closing in on us and becoming a jail cell of time.