Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

There can be too much polish ground into any album, the smear marks that make a life passionate and interesting, somehow wiped clean, the agony and the ecstasy rinsed out and bleached. Yes by all means make the record as perfect as you can but it should never be sanitised to the point of obliteration and boredom, it should never ever become the point where the world as seen through an artist’s eyes is devoid of colour, dirt or even the flirtation with possible disaster.