Category Archives: Music

Henry Bateman, Seinfeld Street. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

An anthem for the lonely, at any other time in history it would have sounded as if the narrative had come of the pages of one of the great American novels, the protagonist of the piece finding their way through the wilderness to great acclaim, and which stood for an allegory of the way the nation had come through its own trials and tribulations. Yet like so many unique experiences during a time that we dared to believe would never be, it is a fitting reminder of the sheer agony and pain, the dashed hope, and the seizing of beauty in even a drop of rain, that is exemplified by Henry Bateman in his new single, Seinfeld Street.

Henry Bateman, Seinfeld Street. Single Review. full post

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

Dorothy Bird, Kaleidoscope. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The patterns may change, the colours remain vibrant, but our daily lives, our hopes and desires are held hostage by the ones who makes the Kaleidoscope turn, and what we are left with is the maze of mirrors that create arrangements by design but never giving the whole picture; like the person who shares only success but never failure, the object is skewed in the favour of the turning and twisting the machine.

Dorothy Bird, Kaleidoscope. Single Review. full post

(338 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Mathieu Boogaerts, Boogaerts En Anglais. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In any walk of life, the hardest everyday occurrence to overcome is the language barrier, even for those who profess to speak the same mother tongue can often misinterpret the smallest act of communication, it is how hostilities begin, it is how wars start, and how suspicions are raised; the way we look at someone and then judge them for the way they speak, the local dialect they use, the words they offer in love and in violence,  are always one that can be misunderstood, misconstrued and forever lost to time.

Mathieu Boogaerts, Boogaerts En Anglais. Album Review. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Sananda Maitrey, Pandora’s Playhouse. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Pandora has received, perhaps unjustly, a bad rap from the lovers of myth and the historians of alternative creation, her name stirs images of the woman who bestowed her gifts upon the world and watched as all the ills that flew out of the box inflicted havoc and misery on all who lived, leaving only Hope as the saving grace for Humanity to hold onto their fingers grasping at the air it circled in, not realising that Hope often is the vulture, the carrion of all that remains in the heart.

Sananda Maitrey, Pandora’s Playhouse. Album Review. full post

(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Visions Of Albion. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A truth of joint expression is that the outcome must be observed and felt to be greater than if voiced alone; to fail to do so is not in keeping with the idea and dream of harmony, but it is often the case that the collapse of lofty ideal is not in the pursuit, but in the minds of those who are not privy to the vision offered, or they ignore the passion at play as the realm is sewn together.

Visions Of Albion. E.P. Review. full post

(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Various Artists, Tributes: Songs For Neil Volume 1. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is undemanding to look upon musicians simply as entertainers, the sense of tradition of the minstrel joyfully earning a sovereign after keeping the court amused and distracted from the matters of state playing out behind velvet curtains, and whilst tradition suggests this is the tribute displayed, the musician, as with all artists, are so much more than just simple distraction, a diversion to be charmed by, they are the keepers and reminders of what makes us human, the teller of tales, the enlighteners to whom all Tributes are encased in gold.

Various Artists, Tributes: Songs For Neil Volume 1. Album Review. full post

(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

David Neville King, Ray Lazy Ray. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

We all have our own thoughts on what makes up the personification of lazy, of the person who we think isn’t pulling their weight, or the one individual to whom we look at with undeserved contempt because we think that they are contributing nothing to society, and all because we never see what they do, what they are experiencing behind closed doors.

David Neville King, Ray Lazy Ray. Single Review. full post

(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Desert Hearts. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The heart at times may be as barren and seemingly lifeless as the Mojave, but the mind is forever on the verge of flourishing, of adapting, changing its opinion and the way it observes the world; it is what makes a change of mind and vision so exhilarating to witness, and which kick starts the heart into its own adaption, but never losing the fascination that comes with the sultry and emotionally passionate flowering of all the Marigolds and Sunflowers as visions of the Desert Hearts.

John Jenkins, Desert Hearts. Single Review. full post

(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Alice Cooper, Detroit Stories. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the great pantheon of American narratives, rarely does the upper reaches of the cities that straddle the Great Lakes feature, the chronicles it seems are reserved for the east and west coast and the plains in between, and yet the Motor City has its own special place in American history, not one perhaps made of literature, but in that more alluring spectacle, music.

Alice Cooper, Detroit Stories. Album Review. full post

(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

The Gold Needles, What’s Tomorrow Ever Done For You. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you have issues with the past and you wonder why today finds itself in your bad books, then to think on and wonder What’s Tomorrow Ever Done For You could be considered an act of folly, a reckoning with a time that as of yet doesn’t even know is coming, let alone the part it has to play in your life.

We either look to the day ahead with excitement, the joy of having made it through another twenty-four-hour cycle, or we worry ourselves into submission, laying awake at night as we mentally prepare ourselves for what ever the day has in store for; our minds convinced that whatever it is, it can’t be good.

The Gold Needles, What’s Tomorrow Ever Done For You. Album Review. full post

(549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)