Category Archives: Music

The Loved Drones. Conspiracy Dance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The wheels are in motion and minds are sharpened, the foxtrot of the overwhelming plot is picking up its pace and all around us, to those we expected better from and those that surprise with their clarity of expression and thought, all have their theories and their arguments ready; for the age of the Conspiracy Dance is not just upon us, but the band have been playing for a while and the lights have been blaring their shine into the deepest corners with such might that even the wallflowers have nowhere to hide.

The Loved Drones. Conspiracy Dance. Album Review. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa, Royal Tea. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It was Canada’s own Rock royalty of Rush who reminded listeners that “The more things change, the more they stay the same“, and whilst they maybe true on many counts, it perhaps does not take into account the evolution of the soul, nor of the spirit to seek out new worlds to witness being born.

Joe Bonamassa, Royal Tea. Album Review. full post

(509 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Seberg. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Kirsten Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O’ Connell, Margaret Qualley, Colm Meaney, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root, Anthony Mackie, Celeste Pechous, Laura Campbell, Jade Pettyjohn, Zazie Beetz, Grantham Coleman, Tobias Truvillion, Noelle Danique Louie, James Jordan, Diane Chernasky.

A story that not only needs telling but expressing effectively is one that that should stand out beyond the norm, especially when it involves life as seen through the eyes of the oppressed and the exploited.

Seberg. Film Review. full post

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

L.A. Guns, Renegades. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Liverpool has its Beatles, Seattle – the memory of Nirvana, Birmingham is proud of Jeff Lynne and Black Sabbath, London the class of The Who and Iron Maiden, all considered the music equivalent of royalty, the crowned heads of Rock to whom servitude or the doffing of caps is thankfully not required to enjoy their takes on the world, and yet there seems to be something otherworldly about Los Angeles that is steeped in the mysticism, a sense of the Pacific Ocean air offering magic, that has seen its city’s limits simply overflow with the Renegades of regal spiritualty and the holiness of noble style.

L.A. Guns, Renegades. Album Review. full post

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

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)