Listen UP! reviews is a new initiative by ANJO to publish album & gig reviews that are written by musicians about their peers.

Listen UP! reviews doesn’t use the tired-old ‘five-star’ rating that compares artists with oranges but instead uses a ‘five highlights’ system that gives potential listeners an idea of what to expect should they choose to take a chance and experience brilliant new music that these artists have poured their heart and soul into creating.

At Listen UP! reviews we are all about focusing on the inherent value that each release contains and our writing focuses on uncovering the craftsmanship, intent and experiences of the music maker in a positive way.

“read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilised and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay, where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next.

Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism.

Only Love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice”

Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Letters to a young poet’