Tag Archives: Bob Leslie

Bob Leslie, In Praise Of Crows. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Despite crows being associated with the idea of protection, it is difficult for the wary to see them as anything as the harbinger of sorrow and ill omens, they, and their feathered cousins, are in the background of every graveyard scene, their voices sung not in admiration or compliment, but in forewarning, the portent of the sinister times and possible death.

Perhaps though, rather than steering clear of the song of crow, we instead should honour them by paying closer attention to the sound rather than what our perceived intentions are, for the music that such bird make should insist to us that we live In Praise Of Crows rather than demonising them.

Bob Leslie, In Praise Of Crows. Album Review. full post

(431 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Bob Leslie, The Barren Fig. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10


The curated sense of the critic will often dismiss a piece of art because it doesn’t suit their view of the world. All that they learned perhaps in the mud and avoiding arrows of open-mindedness is left to become bleak, a simmering condescension of opinions, desolate, and one that is left to become sterile, and all because it finally came across that they didn’t care, that they no longer gave a damn to how the view of the world has changed since they first drew fiery breathe.

Bob Leslie, The Barren Fig. Album Review. full post

(463 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Bob Leslie, Land And Sea. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is the ballad, the sense of purity in which a person declares love and affection for another soul, but knowing full well it could be thrown back in their face, that the embarrassment of opening up is only countered by the weight of possible disappointment.

Bob Leslie, Land And Sea. Album Review. full post

(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)