Tag Archives: Paul Wilkes

Paul Wilkes, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is something very comforting in realising that Paul Wilkes has returned from the studio, armed with new songs, possessing stunning arrangements and taking on the world once more.

Not that the world would argue, they would applaud, holler, whoop a while and then sit back and let the words of a genuinely wonderfully lyricist and observer of the human condition take his stance, put his name out before the song and then let the music roll; it is in that comfort that such an artist strives for, that no matter the lyric or the song’s intention, the last thing they desire is to take away someone’s hope, for in hope there is always still a chance of love.

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(456 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Paul Wilkes, Patterns. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To see Patterns where there are none is a propensity that only Humans seem to be able to master with such high definitive skill and yet it doesn’t stop the relationship between the imagination and the unclear from forming, from enveloping itself deep into the psyche. It is that recognition, that connection that forges ideas, theories and the intimate design of logical answers and wild speculation to thrive and give credence to our existence.

Paul Wilkes, Patterns. E.P. Review. full post

(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Paul Wilkes, Take The Sunlight. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some people leave you in your oblique and obliging darkness happy to see you suffer under the weight of their own expectant failure, they curse your own breath as well as damning their own and they make it harder for you to like and appreciate their work. Some though, such as Paul Wilkes, don’t just place the listener back upright again, removing the slant-thought perspective that has been dragging them down, they insist that once they are done putting back together the musical soul that you also Take The Sunlight they have brought in to dispel the darkness.

Paul Wilkes, Take The Sunlight. E.P. Review. full post

(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Paul Wilkes, River Running With Me. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is an almost inalienable fact that for the people that make up the islands and lands of Great Britain, water, whether in the form of the crashing sea that dominates the paintings of Turner, the gentleness of the stream babbling through country fields and pulling at the stems of flowers in full bloom or the mightiest rivers that cities stride alongside, the Mersey, the Thames, the Rae, the Clyde, the Taff or the Tyne, all are constant and as Paul Wilkes more than beautifully shows on his latest E.P., there is a River Running With Me.

Paul Wilkes, River Running With Me. E.P. Review. full post

(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Paul Wilkes, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In some respects Al Capone may have had the greatest of intentions, albeit ultimately flawed and with murderous, evil intent, that to stage a massacre on Valentine’s Day would be remembered in the headlines of the papers of Chicago and further afield forever. However in the scheme of things and perhaps arguably with more noble and cherished intentions, the day does belong to those who make the most of the moving and special quality that a card and a prohibition gun can’t quite cut through.

Paul Wilkes, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. full post

(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)