Category Archives: Music

Luvcat: Vicious Delicious. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

Liverpool doesn’t have the same access to the late great Victorian/Edwardian music halls that London has, but it is possible as the listener takes in the debut album from Luvcat, the vaudeville like demonstration of power and feverish exoticism that exists in worlds perhaps that linger more in the imagination, of old romantic theatres that were found in the East End of London as they were shrouded by mists, legends, and attitudes of the playful and the vaguely disconcerting; this is where

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David Gilmour: The Luck And Strange Concerts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The rarity of transition in a live album is rarely found in time, the sense of movement not coming from the players on stage, or the expression of sound, it comes from showcasing songs from different venues, different performances, alternative views from audience’s perspectives across time itself; this is an almost unique situation from one of Britain’s most celebrated musicians, and with his new album The Luck And Strange Concerts expertly melding his own colourful career with songs from Pink Floyd, what becomes evident is the proof of how music travels with a gift of perfection; a gift of unison unspoiled.

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Sabaton: Legends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are few groups like Sabaton, ones to whom are willing, or indeed able to look at history’s most decisive moments, those that submit a kind of behind the scenes sense of delivery of the people at the heart of any struggle for freedom, or perhaps those whose sense of destiny was that of conquest wrapped in the false paint of glory and the desperation of subterfuge and reckoning, and in all fairness the group do it with extreme cool and a style that holds the world of power metal enthralled.

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(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Dion: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Philosopher. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To praise a person for their life lived should always be shown by not only what they achieved for themselves but what they have done for others, that their life was one of empathy, of pushing others to reach a potential they might have thought impossible and most importantly being humble where the result of their kindness is concerned.

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Laura Evans: Out Of The Dark. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

From Out Of The Dark comes either chaos or serenity, we peer into the shadows and hope that the sound we hear is that of the authentic and the brave, not that of the obscure and weepish dramas that accompany some who see the opportunity to self-serve rather than illuminate, to sacrifice their thoughts in the name of enlightenment.

Laura Evans has already made a name for herself by sticking to a principled line that encompasses genuine groundwork for her lyrics to grab the attention of the listener, and the steady beat of various genres standing with full value in broad, proud, and sincerely polished affection, a letter of love signed, sealed, and delivered with style and soul.

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Rianne Downey: The Consequence Of Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are urged to follow our hearts to the point where the outcome is often detrimental to our souls, the wishes of the moment burnt at the altar of the long-term expectation that turns to despair as we find ourselves often stony faced or weeping at The Consequence Of Love and all it entails, all it commits.

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Kalandra: Mørketid. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Kalandra, the acclaimed Norwegian/Swedish quartet have once more surfaced from the studio armed with a set of songs that bring light to the moody darkness, a haunting to the soul which causes the listener to once more understand a significance of the Nordic influence on the psyche of the northern nations, a near unique sensation which delves back to the exploration of other lands, perhaps of conquest, but certainly of inspiration that the lands towards the Arctic held.

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Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. 2025 Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is an album that surely stands as a testament to the power of Progressive Rock, to the music of Genesis, and to the persuasive power of Peter Gabriel’s writing that seems to straddle an unearthly brilliance that not only recognised the zeitgeist that the genre and America were witnessing, but inhabiting it, prising open the cracks on a generation of New Yorkers that were finding the time they were born into devoid of the promises guaranteed by failures of politicians, of the scourge of unemployment, drugs, abuse, gender and social politics that were not designed to liberate but confine, to jail, to imprison the freedoms won after World War Two.

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The Bangles: Watching The Sky. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There have been many all-female groups that have been respected and loved by the heavy pop and rock unions over the last few decades, few though have reached the heights of adoration that was focused upon the richness of songwriting and performing that could hold their own with their male counterparts that came about with groups such as The Liverbirds, The Runaways, The Go-Go’s, The Shangri-Las, Vixen and of course The Bangles.

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The Divine Comedy. Gig Review. (2025). Philharmonic Hall. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Neil Hannon’s The Divine Comedy is probably the closest group ensemble to recreate the sensational beauty and drama of the old style Victorian Music Hall, and yet as the sheer poetry and observations are unveiled before the audience, the sense of modernity is overwhelming, two worlds colliding, one of examination of the sometimes absurd world we live in, and the other of outstanding theatre that captures human frailty at its most keenest, most endearing, its most vulnerable.

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