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If the need for the sincere spiritual uplift is ever taken up, then surely it would fall to Shirlie Roden to supply it.

Music is a subjective beast, the adoration or the desire of it is as individual as the snowflake cascading, hurtling with intent down to Earth and can be just as easily destroyed by the uncaring or the blindly ignorant. It can suffer derision, it can enlighten. Yet throughout it all a particular piece of music might fall into the hands and it can offer a glimpse of something tangible that had not been seen before, a sideways glance out of the corner of a myopic eye and the realisation that the world is so much bigger, so much brighter that it was thought to be. This is arguably the case with Shirlie Roden’s seventh studio album, Be The Love.