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Infamous Stiffs: The Ornery Six. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Never apologise for who you are, never express contriteness for the sound you create, look the public in the eye and dare them to find fault in the majesty of expression, of your individuality.

It is a lesson that any artist finds themselves always continually testing the limits of, what could grab the attention of the new possible listener or sticking to the guns and delivering a purity of no-nonsense Punk Rock delivery with a volley of drums and a passion for rebellious disobedience you are known for.

Infamous Stiffs: The Ornery Six. E.P. Review. full post

(306 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Dead End Irony: Battles And Brotherhood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Attitude in the wrong hands can be devastating to the conscious of those caught up in the maelstrom, a cyclone that sweeps you off your feet and leaves you with nothing but broken and shattered dreams of unfulfilled truth and dreams. Attitude in the right hands is perplexingly cool, you don’t know you have been entangled in the wind and storm until you reach the apex of the motion and see beyond the horizon, for what is to be witnessed is power wielded with impervious brilliance.

Dead End Irony: Battles And Brotherhood. Album Review. full post

(369 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Terence Blacker: Misfit’s Jamboree. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Those that strive to fit in lose something of themselves in the process, they intentionally misplace the ability to celebrate a uniqueness to which their destiny wrote for them with kindness; to stand proud and waving a flag of individual groove at the Misfit’s Jamboree should be the ultimate face of expression in a world that promotes blandness and the lacking of talent above the sincere matchless exclusivity offered by the creatively astute. 

Terence Blacker: Misfit’s Jamboree. Album Review. full post

(390 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Megan Walker: It’s A Cult. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst social media has been a boon in many respects, it could be argued that at times we should be looking at its dangerous, tentacle like intrusion into our lives as a warning of what is to come, a foreshadowing where we are even more divided, placed into a credit like system for our beliefs and our unwillingness to be immersed into any system that screams loudly to our gut reaction that It’s A Cult.

Megan Walker: It’s A Cult. Single Review. full post

(331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

California Irish: The Mountains Are My Friends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Caught between the darkness of space and the fathomless depths of the ocean, we might consider the plainness of the land to be our faithful companion in life, but it is with a certain relish that we see the natural uplift of that horizon, one that brings us closer to the heavens without fearing the wrath of other’s gods and keeps us out of direct danger should the sea overwhelm the ground we walk on that will lead us to declare with a kind of poetic emotion that The Mountains Are My Friends.

California Irish: The Mountains Are My Friends. Album Review. full post

(495 words, 1 image, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Not Going Out. Series 14. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Ray Fearon, Eileen O’Brien, Mike Wozniak, Angela McHale, Philip Correia, Laurence Howarth, Felicity Montague, Lu Corfield, Matthew Kelly, Ed Jones, Manpreet Bambra, Margret Cabourn-Smith, Diana Vickers, Dean Coulson.

No matter how good an addition the three children to the family dynamic in Not Going Out were, the opportunity for the show to reinvent itself for a third time and be the beacon for some truly quality farce is not only welcome, it is a necessity of a mainstream channel to highlight a programme capable of bringing the backbone of humour to life.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Metallica: Load. 2025 Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Five years on from the internationally bestselling album Metallica, the thrash metal band returned with a different style than the fans were used to, and arguably the difference in sound, in attitude, and appearance had some scratching their heads, and some arguably utterly confused about the near 180-degree turnaround in terms of songwriting and heavy riff displacement, and yet as the band release their 2025 reissue of Load, what comes across is a resilience of Time, that the reminder of what we as fans perceive as ownership of sound and expectation is an unavoidable truth that we are wrong; that the artist is, and always will be the ones to have to have the last word on how they present themselves to the wider world.

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(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughn: On The Jimmy Reed Highway. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter what we may think of the United States of America, politically at times exaggerated, we must surely concede that there is so much to learn from looking at the map of the continuous land mass and understanding its myths and history at times cross over, meld and merge to a point where the only option is to explore and witness the stories first hand, to go beyond that cross roads where the Devil collects souls whilst all Hell prays you continue on your journey.

Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughn: On The Jimmy Reed Highway. Album Review. full post

(384 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Joe Hodgson: Fields Of Redemption. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the Fields Of Redemption, the grass will always be greener, the soul will be lighter, and the mind will be free of all that vexes it, for in delivering salvation to one’s own psyche, by offering a reclaiming of one’s past and not allowing it to define you, we find the liberation to explore a future which is clear and unhindered.

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(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Larry McCray: Heartbreak City. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

At one time or another we have all been residents of Heartbreak City, indeed some of have not only lived within the city’s limits, taken in the views, strolled in Melancholy Park, eaten in the many restaurants of regret, they have become a spokesperson for the desire to truly explore the surroundings before they can return to the land of the exuberant and the positive nature of performing for the masses.

Larry McCray: Heartbreak City. Album Review. full post

(431 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)