Category Archives: Music

Beth Lee, Waiting On You Tonight. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are worth so much more than being the idle thought of those that caused our hearts to break, after all is said and done, the only person that can truly destroy us emotionally, is ourselves.

Stepping away from The Breakups for a while as she explores her current surroundings and delves further into her own solo story, Beth Lee opens up her soul to a new kind of love, the selfless self-love to which we must all embrace if we are being to true to ourselves, the solitude of confinement in which we learn the ultimate truth of our existence and how it drives us to avoid falling into the lap of heartbreak again.

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

Eyes Of Tomorrow, Settle For More. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Having an attitude is not only essential but indispensable to having your story, your life, being expressed in the right way. There is no relief to be found in being meek even if you inherit the world and the wind, only the damage that timidity and mild voice can bring; nobody should reconcile for less, no one should settle for less than they are worth, Settle For More, demand that your voice be heard at all times.

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

Death Dealer, Conquered Lands. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A conquered land is one that has been taken by force, the image of desolation, of pillage, fires burning, its people scattered, perhaps laid waste, uncertain if their way of life will ever return, held hostage by the loss and despair and the knowledge that their lives will never be the same again.

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(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Yvonne Lyon, Growing Wild. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

When you are young, when adult authority perhaps means something, the pointed finger and verbal accusation of Growing Wild was one that might make you stop and think, careful not to upset those that mean something to you, you rein in the storm, you prune back the excess, as one would a garden allowed to spread out of control, and you restore the balance of contentment. The trouble is you then deny yourself the chance to be the storm that changes the landscape, you become part of the background in which everybody is the same, you don’t blossom into the natural you.

Yvonne Lyon, Growing Wild. Album Review. full post

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

Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound Of Thunder (2020 Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nostalgia is not always what you remember, but how it is framed when you return to the memory later on.

In the modern era we are dealt on a daily basis the chance to renew memories constantly, what you think you knew is constantly revised, changed, altered to the point where in some artistic version of 1984 and the endless re-editing of history to make it more palatable to the party line, the song that once remained the same, has now the power to be different.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Katie McNally Trio, Now More Than Ever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Now More Than Ever we should be looking at ourselves in the eye and asking ourselves a simple question, what can we achieve whilst time is seemingly against us, and the honest, the sincere answer should not be one shrouded in excuses, in the feelings of what if we fail, but in the words of Erin Hanson,”What if you fly?”

Katie McNally Trio, Now More Than Ever. Album Review. full post

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

Crush Limbo, Purveyors of Mayhem. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Punk attitude wrapped up in an anarchistic heart and maintained by the natural urge to speak out against the powers of indifference, ignorance and inadequacy, that is what is needed now, not fine speeches of a gilded future and only stopping short of quoting some euphemistic utopian dream, but a duty to tell the truth, to let people understand for themselves that the mess we have allowed to fill up the sewers beneath our feet, has not only backed up and spilling out the country’s toilets, but is on the streets and the children yet to come are playing in it with our blessing.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Strangeness & Charm, Music For The Book Of Deer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Religion in any form has long inspired the artist to create a passionate response, especially if it is the form of searching for an answer themselves or being overwhelmed by an artifact or a vestige of humanity’s adherence to scripture in the days when such historical objects held a deep spiritual belief in the soul and the mind.

You don’t have to be religious to appreciate beauty, to see the humanity in creation and the vision to which the divine appears to all who wish to understand how we fit into the universe at large, that for some, the gift of symbolism is tied to feeling part of something unexplainable, something tangible in the heart.

Strangeness & Charm, Music For The Book Of Deer. Album Review. full post

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

AC/DC, Power Up. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In a time when the everyday is considered both mind-numbingly static and constantly galloping out of control, it is to feel a sense of reassuring stability that can be held onto in the chaos, the sandstorm of unremitting fear that frames the known unknown in which the strength of constancy is but a small but powerful pleasure, that AC/DC  return and offer a reminder of permanence that the Rock lover didn’t know they were to be graced with.

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

Paloma Faith, Infinite Things. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In a period of time which is dictated by a constant nagging doubt, in which the best laid plans of mice and the boundless enthusiasm and character of many has been pushed aside in a limited, confined, waking vision, to be able to partake in someone’s dream of completion is to revel in the majesty of human endeavour. Whilst some might argue that writers and musicians can still hold on to their work compared to others in society, they still need to find inspiration in the outside world and the Infinite Things that bring forth concepts and faith together.

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