Category Archives: Music

Paula Rae Gibson and Matthew Bourne: Loving In Real Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We seek a connection, a touch from another human being, and sometimes that wish is granted with a favourable result, the sense of being safe, close, unafraid because the world is forgotten in a blink of tenderness; in the hands of caring, we hope we emerge intact as we find Loving In Real Time is the bond that heals all wounds.

Love though must also haunt.

Ross Couper Band: The Homeroad. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Those who inhabit islands must look out to sea and dream of escape, the insular only being a comfort for so long, the need to be close or influence another soul from a distant land one that screams to be heard… “No man is an island”, John Donne wrote wisely with implored sentiment, but surely no man can resist keeping to the island whilst they hone their craft and their tale for the world to hear in person.

Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The trailer has moved on, the park it was resting upon has been left behind, and now that same trailer occupies a substantial plot in the playground of the comfortably polished and sincerely cool.

For the fan and admirer of Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well marks a point of delivery to which the listener cannot but help but be impressed and fulsome in their honest appraisal of the country star’s continuing dominance in the genre and beyond.

Pando Pando. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What starts with a growl can end in roar that is felt across the savannah, the reverberation of a king’s voice as it alerts to all that its presence is enough to keep all in its vicinity in line and mindful of how they approach the entity that boomed.

As in nature so to the realm of humanity, and in art it is often the sound of the original that is felt loudest in the gut when coming across the source of the emotions stirred, and even in the realm of the electronic interpretation, the so called voiceless, that roar can leave you shuddering with expectation and desire for more.

Elbow: Audio Vertigo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Art is conflict. Every medium that falls underneath its wide umbrella must acknowledge a truth within itself that even if it sets out to calm the nerves of the afflicted, to offer it shelter and hope, then it must be at its heart in opposition to that which vexes it.

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band: The River Of Dreams E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Dreams are important, they are our subconscious talking to us on levels that we only fathom when we embrace the complex reasons for our actions and those we wish to undertake. Dreams flow in directions that our sentient waking mind often represses, pushes away with agony of spirit that we which we truly wish to embrace, investigate, release, and like a river escape from the confines of the land on either side of us and return to the sea and the adventure that awaits in the unknown.

Michael Kessler: Gravel Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time, it’s sacred to us all, but some choose to abuse its trust and meaning by frittering away the seconds and minutes that add content to the day and make the hours meaningful. Time is not honour bound to push our voice, but instead will carry it if we are willing to walk the Gravel Road and count the stones that get into our boots, that tears at the soles of our worn-out socks, and which we are willing to abandon and tread in bare feet to achieve our goal…then Time will offer us the world.

Eric Bibb: Live At The Scala Theatre. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“Tomorrow, we aim for the Scala”, a cry to the theatrical and performance inclined that sets the senses alight in anticipation of a good time, of feeling the enormity of success as the lights on stage reveal living sentiment and a pulse of the heart that stands for all time.

Cedric Burnside: Hill Country Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The journey does not necessarily take you where you want to go, but where fate and dedication understand you were always going to be; whether in the straits of adoration and consuming hard work, or in the valley surrounded by the Hill Country Love that insists on holding you in its thrall…you are where you are meant to be and influencing all who want to be standing in the same spot.

Solitary Bee: Love Wakes Up. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When Love Wakes Up we must be sure to tend to it with careful hands and a just heart, for in life there is no greater crime, no larger scandal against the soul of another human being than turning our back on that in which we have awoken.