Category Archives: Music

Saskia, Where Are We Heading. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If there is a plan, a grand overarching scheme, a blueprint with the answers placed with pain staking precision, then for the most part, the overwhelming majority of humanity has not been told or made aware of its existence. It can feel as though we are at the opening moments of Douglas Adams’ insightful Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as the Vogan race inform the people of Earth that they had all time in the world to object to the destruction of the planet by lodging a complaint about the building of a bypass which happened to be on a Thursday.

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(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Mark Pountney, Love, Luck And Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * * *

To own the emotion of sentiment is surely another way of declaring that you understand how important another period of time was to you and how, in the case of art, it has inspired you to believe that its extraordinary presence can still not only make you a finer person, but give you Love, Luck and Time in which to make your own romanticism, someone else’s emotional adventure and discovery.

Mark Pountney, Love, Luck And Time. Album Review. full post

(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band, Shakedown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The unannounced Shakedown, the spontaneous, without warning release, is for some who have been unceremoniously locked in a cage and the key removed from their sight, the moment when hope arises; for in that surprise visitation from beyond their vision, comes the source of their salvation, the basis of their belief for the next chapter in their lives.

The key to any success arguably stands in the form of adaption, the ability to move with the tide and time, and place trust in, if not reinvention, then re-emergence, for in that shakedown you are afforded the significance of being the focus of attention, of having a captive audience, and one who will no doubt be entertained by your next move.

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band, Shakedown. Album Review. full post

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

Yes, The Quest. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The search for what was lost on the way can often provide a sense of solace that cannot be found by simply soldiering on almost aimlessly, carrying on out of the force of habit and the indoctrination of tradition.

When we consider that the undertaking at hand is more than a mere journey, and instead that the purpose is to assume that there is indeed an acceptance of fate at stake, then what is revealed to those around you is the reflection of The Quest to come; and as with all self-sacrificing missions, the physical and the abandonment of ego, it becomes clear that rebirth, a renaissance of return can be found waiting to be played for the audience.

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(586 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Roger Taylor, Outsider. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To the Outsider looking in, the world is not just a mad, obscene, and quite often ridiculous place, it is the source of all the wealth of inspiration and creative encouragement they need in which to place before those inside the bubble of insecurity and bid them the spur in which to change the world.

However, it is in that madness that the insiders dwell and party as though there is no tomorrow, and for all the beauty, all the demanding truth you lay at their door, inside the bubble of insanity, inhabited by no moral gangsters, charlatans and fake messiahs and gods, they continue listening to only their over inflated opinions and irrational brainstorming insight.

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(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

IndyAnna Baby, I’m Not Giving Up. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all succumb to a kind of complacency when we are on top of the world, when we feel as though the moment of heightened enjoyment will last forever, it is natural, it is fleeting, and we cannot help ourselves forever seeking out the thrill of it. For in that rush that complacency provides, we forget the truth of its opposite nature, we forget that hope, that tireless courage and faith in the human spirit provides a far greater drive to see us take on the world than the dream of personal, permanent utopia.

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(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Blancmange, Commercial Break. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are two ways to look at the world of advertising, one being is that is brings a product into our lives that is indispensable, that will go on to change the course of our day, our year because we were fortunate enough to understand the message that it was carrying; and the other is that we see it as an intrusion, a focused infringement into our psyche, one that can cause the weaker willed to purchase anything, everything, that is placed before them, and therefore cause a draining of resources that might have been put to better use elsewhere.

Blancmange, Commercial Break. Album Review. full post

(526 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Samantha Fish, Faster. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

Light the blue touch paper and step back far enough so you don’t feel the scorch marks as the rocket takes off, take care when handling the explosive, the 12-track piece of dynamite provides, and admire fully the magnificence on display, the sense of eruption, the upsurge in heat as you decree that the eruption of sound that accompanies the spectacle should go Faster.

Samantha Fish, Faster. Album Review. full post

(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Tiki Black, The Sound Of The Broken Wand. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There will be sorcerers and magicians who insist you cannot perform without an intact wand, conductors who claim that the baton has to be unbroken and true for it to have any effect on the orchestra, they are of course wrong, for The Sound Of The Broken Wand is in the heart and soul of any communication, any magic spell weaved that leaves you entranced by what you have been made privy to; it might not be the spell or the incantation you were looking for, but in the right hands it is influential, it is charming, it is boisterous, uplifting, and embracing.

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(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Blues Album. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The one who owns a reckless heart has all the qualities in the world to be proud to unveil The Blues Album.

Once an artist has shown you their heart, you will forever be spellbound by their performance and fascinated by their acknowledgement of the blues within their soul; and that is certainly true of Britain’s premier 21st Century Blues player, Joanne Shaw Taylor, for in the simplicity of the recognition of her latest album’s title, lays behind it the pulse of a soul that truly has immersed itself into the hearts of those, regardless of their affiliation to other genres, who find themselves awestruck by her tenacity, her fierce, sheer unquenchable flame that illuminates her every move on her beloved guitar.

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(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)