Category Archives: Music

Brian Bordello And Occult Character, Heart To Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Dancing cheek to cheek maybe fun, singing from the same spread sheet can bring some closer together but a little Heart To Heart can soothe oceans of troubled waters and build bridges where none thought were possible to erect due to geographical differences and political contrasts. A discussion is not always about thrashing out anger and a Heart To Heart takes place when there is something to build, a pleasure of human emotion in which to keep sacred or the possibility of the new found admiration to which respect is earned and encouraged.

Brian Bordello And Occult Character, Heart To Heart. Album Review. full post

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

George Benson, Weekend In London. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Intimacy in 2020 has become a largely forgettable experience. Unless you have been fortunate to escape the storm that has knocked the world of its side and the arrogant hubris pulled from within, like the string that controls the string that drives the recorded voice on a child’s toy, the intimate has become one of gestures, of silent nods and reciprocated waving of hands, a relegated sense of emptiness has befallen us all and there is little sign of anything physical that may change that.

George Benson, Weekend In London. Album Review. full post

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

Ryk Mead, In A Lockdown. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is only at the end that we can take stock of what we have experienced and learned to understand just how at times we are prepared to be inward looking, perhaps selfish, to survive, that it comes as a shock to see how others managed themselves in times of adversity, in times when honour is called upon and often neglected.

Ryk Mead, In A Lockdown. Single Review. full post

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

Roger Waters, Us And Them. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Us And Them, strangely even more prophetic in dark, unyielding times, than perhaps at any moment in the last fifty years; for the world hangs in the balance, a plaything for a few conceited, evil souls who are happy to destroy peace, place every citizen in poverty, and become strangers to each other if it means their billions lay undisturbed, that the camera adores them and they can spout their hateful rhetoric and dogma to the believers and the flagellating disciples to whom no wrong can be seen in their eyes.

Roger Waters, Us And Them. Album Review. full post

(580 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Katie Melua, Album No.8. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In ambiguity a sense of coyness and obscurity can be found hiding, waiting for another’s deft touch to bring the subject out from the shroud and veil which has been placed auspiciously around it, to reveal the message and meaning, to coax the ambiguous from its butterfly like cocoon and let it stand, unhindered, with a flourish and with its tale ready to be told.

Katie Melua, Album No.8. Album Review. full post

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

Various Artists, The Song Club Album. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A picture can inspire a thousand emotions to be felt in the soul and stimulate the mind to embrace a creative urge in which to highlight evil deeds committed and celebrate the moments of beauty that come up unexpectedly; a picture may be worth a thousand words, but it’s wealth is also deemed priceless when the photograph is viewed from every perspective by a group of people with the power to add significantly to its meaning.

Various Artists, The Song Club Album. Album Review. full post

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

The Deep End, Who Do You Love? Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Love is an age old question that never quite understands that it cannot be defined, organised or labelled, Howard Jones asked what it was, Tina Turner demanded to know what it had to do with anything, and even Foreigner couldn’t get a pin to stick when they humbly enquired about wanting to know what it actually was. Love is an enigma sewn into a riddle and displayed quite often with the heart on the outside where it can be easily broken.

The Deep End, Who Do You Love? Single Review. full post

(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Bobhowla, Midnight Fears. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you are misplaced, there is a good chance it’s at the Lost and Found where you will be saved, especially as the clock turns between one day and the next, the moment in between Time which for a split second has the ability to turn a life upside down, which can make the difference between rationality and illogical thought and where dreams can morph into Midnight Fears.

Bobhowla, Midnight Fears. Single Review. full post

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

Professor And The Madman, Séance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

We mock what we don’t understand to our downfall, and whilst it is healthy, indeed critical in the time we live in, to seek the truth from the voices perpetrating to come from the other side, we must also be aware that there is a chance that the Seance will convey such information to which might be of benefit to us, that the presence in the room is here to deliver tidings of joy, happiness and a beat that has the toes tapping, as well as the ghostly knocks rapping on the table in harmony. 

Professor And The Madman, Séance. Album Review. full post

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

Aimée Steven, Today. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We care too much for the clambering voices of descent that scream in our ears of all we have done wrong, and never enough attention to the voice that may be perceived as a whisper, that could be the murmur of inquisitive appreciation, which wishes us well. Such self-doubt is magnified, personified, and objectified as an attack on all our tomorrows, all that we hope for is shaken, the happiness we seek is tainted, and all because we found a way to defeat future selves, rather than listen to the hope of Today.

Aimée Steven, Today. Single Review. full post

(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)