Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Even after 40 years at the very top, the small dip in appreciation as a new century dawned and countless hits that have kept the Wilson sisters very much in the public eye, there is no doubting the majesty that comes with a brand new Heart album, the possessive feel that the fingers and the mind takes hold of as they do their best not to crumble or fall into the pit of comparison and judgement to the three distinct areas of Heart’s discography.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is no doubting that Sir Paul McCartney is one of Liverpool’s and indeed the U.K.’s favourite sons. The songs he co-wrote with John Lennon has rightly passed down generation after generation of music lovers to the point where surely at any point in time around the world a song he wrote, whether with the Beatles or his lengthy solo career, a song he lovingly crafted and put together, is being played on a radio station, in a Juke Box or on a record or C.D. player with reverence.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating ****
Two years after Heart brought out Red Velvet Car, Ann and Nancy Wilson have once again teamed up with Ben Mink and come up with an album of distinction. For those that only remember Heart as producing hard rock ballads during the 1980’s and know nothing of their early albums such as Little Queen or Dreamboat Annie, before you listen to Fanatic, check out the early recordings, see how rich and full Ann Wilson’s voice was and then compare. For as Red Velvet Car showed, the two sisters are back and sounding as good as they did before they sold out to the 80’s corporate mainstream.
Originally published by L.S. Media. October 17th 2010.
It can seem odd to hear an album by a band and think that they have finally gone full circle and ended up where they began, fresh faced and full of hope and a wonderful sense of naivety of how their lives would pan out over the following decades.
Red Velvet Car is the new album by 70’s American folk heroes and 80’s rock stars Heart, that crushed all before them and gave a breath of life to a dying genre before almost imploding themselves and becoming caricatures of what they had set out to preserve.