Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Striving for perfection is to be lauded, but it is time to admit that it is a curse on the artistic endeavour, it puts the apprentice and the star eyed pupil off as they are not only competing against themselves, but the judgement of the one to whom stands beside them with the large stick of authority relishing the opportunity to install a discipline that becomes a spectre at the feast of enjoyment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Justin Levinson is a name that arguably won’t be familiar to the music lovers of the U.K., and that as is stands, is okay, for the nature of the islands is often insular, only embracing long after the introductions and with a wariness that comes from shaking hands too often with that which eventually fades away. Only the hardiest of listeners push the virtue of that which could inspire, and when the message finally hits home, what is created is a lens of enjoyment, a full stare down the musical barrel and one that is a true creation by one who himself was inspired by the likes of the legendary Lester Bowie and Fontella Bass.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
How we measure Time is one of artificial construct, and yet like other species, we can find ourselves not thinking of it in ways of the seconds and hours, of the days taken from us as we wrestle with nostalgia and hope of finer times, but in terms of how sculpture evolves for the artist.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Perhaps its prophetic, more certainly timely, but as the stunning Olivia Ross delivers her immense debut solo album to the fans and music lovers, so we should turn our back on the grey and look to Grace The Blue skies that will, if we embrace the opportunity to do away with all that we understand to be toxic, all that we have clung onto in the hope they will lead us to some mythical utopian dream.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
That which we desire haunts us, then when we finally attain that which stole our waking dreams, we arguably allow it to control us, never to seek its counsel, only to divide our soul and brain into two different factions; one which concerns itself with managing the wonder, and that which wants more, that which demands an extension of the feeling, the rush, in which it first experienced the joy at hand.
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We don’t truly disappear in an instant, one day we are here the next we are not; for even in the final moment between life and death the sense of self resides with hope…it is more that we slowly overtime vanish from view, what we perceive for us to be is slowly wiped away like a complex sum on a maths board that is poured over and studied and then slowly cleaned as the student moves on to more intricate methods of discerning the subject matter.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Every little thing we do is documented from the moment we come into the world, and if we are fortunate, that comes in the form of art, through the skill and performance of a person who will do anything, who will tear apart the world, just to make you smile.
A dedication on an album will give us a glow, a mention in a biography will leave a lasting impression for the generations that follow us on Time’s crazy stone paving; to be the star of the tale, the inspiration, the stimulus for the artist’s pursuit of examination will forever be the lodestone of our time on Earth, for we are the reason a piece of art, in whatever form, exists.
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Even to the adoring listener, a single will only offer what amounts to a snap shot in time of what has been consuming the artist, the influence almost transitory…unless it forms part of the larger picture, the album in all its glory which is the equivalent perhaps of an Instagram message, but more of a detailed novel which frames the length of time in which the artist has given over which might be a few months, or in some cases, years between arrangements and full release.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Logic often be damned, and lucidity be unquiet, for to create art we need to listen to voices in the air that speak to the inner turmoil of existence, and be prepared for the brilliance that shines from being in tune with observation, being on the same wave length as the colours that shape the images that becomes the sculptures of music, of novels, of poetry and drama…for logic only takes you so far, what we need to truly love life is the translucence of self-expression.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whatever you may think of Kevin Rowlands, the voice behind the exceptional Dexys Midnight Runners, there can be no doubting of his commitment to the cause to which he sets his mind, the issues that get under his skin take root and manifest into actions and words, they are absolute and honest.