Category Archives: Music

Bryan Adams: Roll With The Punches. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always a kind of unbalance to the world when you hear a bunch of songs for the first time at a gig several months before the album that they appear on is unleashed on to the conscious of the listener. It does always feel as though it is the wrong way round, a state of confusion that perhaps prepares you for the peace of a listen at home already acquainted with the dynamic, but which robs the actuality of sentiment and core memories later down the line as expressed in a group setting designed to inflame the senses and have the listener roll with every emotional punch available.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Helloween: Giants & Monsters. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Giants & Monsters sees the return of one the most influential Heavy Metal bands to the front of the genre’s mass appeal, and in a year when the German group celebrate 40 years since they released their eponymous debut E.P. and later on that same year the towering Walls Of Jericho, Helloween, once again guided by the three originals of the band, Michael Weikath, Kai Hansen, and Markus Grosskopf, have placed before the masses a sense of continual cool as their new album creates certainty and an air of devilish mayhem to enjoy.

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(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

FM: Brotherhood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Consistency, such a resounding achievement in any field, let alone artistic, is to be as lauded as that which comes from those who see the application of success as only one of creative ups and downs and continual disruption that leads to an output of extremes.

The variation of extreme might have some drooling with anticipation, but for the multitude the sheer ability of reliable dependability is overwhelmingly fierce, it shows a narrative of textured nuance that has been carefully thought out, fleshed and ironed with devotion, and in the solid and endearing rock group, FM’s latest album, Brotherhood, is a lesson in steadfast critically positive drive and ambition, strengthened by the infectious groove of the songs that pump blood and blow the mind.

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(344 words, 1 image, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

H. Jack Williams: Something About Hope. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When a poet speaks the whole world should tremble, people should listen with full attention and be silent, for a poet, unlike a politician of any persuasion or coloured rosette, has nothing to lose by using their voice to speak out or up for that which vexes society, there is no promise or delusion, only frank words designed to highlight and comfort, to place anger or shoulder the lie, and the spoken word of the poet should offer nothing but a truth.

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

Barry Briercliffe: The Freedom Of Our Childhood Hearts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

By the time we understand, it becomes too late to enjoy what should be one of carefree learning and play, filled with unconditional love and surrounded by those who only want the best for us; never again to we feel The Freedom Of Our Childhood Hearts, the best we can do is too make sure those we bring into the world are blessed with such fortune.

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(358 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

The Who: Live At The Oval – 1971. Album Review.

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The chances of a new studio album from The Who are to say the least minute, an almost impossibility, that whilst would be welcomed by the fans, would surely be argued would go against the grain of declaring that the latest tour is certainly the final time we would see them live; a studio album would deflect that certainty, it would be an expectation of bank balance taking priority over ethics and high music morals.

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

Amit Dattani: Wrong Kind Of One. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We often, in a modern setting, proclaim heroism when there is no such reality to our statement, we overlook the fight that a person may have had, the sense of sacrifice, the damage that comes with the continual punishment of grinding away at the surface of the soul; instead placing our congratulations at the feet of those whose success comes from a random act of serendipity and not pain or loss on a personal level.

Amit Dattani: Wrong Kind Of One. Album Review. full post

(435 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Dominant Chain: Wasteland Requiem. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The wastelands no longer belong to the teenagers of Generation X, thanks to political mismanagement by all, our structure of society is under threat thanks to the greed of those who not only saw the opportunity to make a fast buck, but to control the world in their image, like some new found God, their will be done by all, and we are to blame for allowing it to happen.

It could be considered too late to rectify, that the service we hold off from performing, the funeral song for our species and planet is nothing more than a Wasteland Requiem, a lament for all that was once held with dear appreciation.

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(368 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Ghosts Of Sunset: California Girl. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What makes the image of the California Girl so iconic, one of sun, warm seas, a dream sold to the idealistic and the dreamers never short of cash; the girl was a concoction of post war affluence and political will delivered by propaganda and desire, and one that persists in the minds of the everyday and the visionaries ready to make fantasies come true.

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(350 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Robert Jon & The Wreck: Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When we are afforded time to truly immerse ourselves into our passions, something resplendent and incredible can be witnessed to have taken place; like magic being waved over those with drive, imagination and ability, but who lack Time due to outside forces commanding their attention, what transpires is a sense of purity revealed by light.

We live in a period of time where we are punished for nourishing our souls, others finding fault with our need to fulfil our promise and making demands on every second as if they are the sole dominant force in the universe.

Robert Jon & The Wreck: Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes. Album Review. full post

(422 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)