Category Archives: Music

The Loft Club, Dreaming The Impossible. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The amount of music venues that can be considered as iconic, of capturing a slice of time in such a way that they are undeniably written into the fabric of the art and the city or town that they inhabit, is unfortunately diminishing. This is mainly down to the commercial forces and greed of landlords who see the chance to turn the land the building stands upon into a place where the pounds and pennies are counted in their millions, rather than the change it might make by Dreaming The Impossible to which many a young band can seize the future with both hands.

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

Stray Cats, Rocked This Town: From LA To London. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If turning 40 is monumental, a slap in the chops of Time as you steadfastly refuse to give in to the demands of your generation’s apparent slow decline, then taking your life out on the road, swinging from the beat, commanding the pulse, taking the sense of the live and life and moulding them into one giant, and electric, beast.

Stray Cats, Rocked This Town: From LA To London. Album Review. full post

(493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

The New Icons, Everyone Knows. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the modern age, with the takeover of social media and the sense of a more persuasive, open society, Everyone Knows more than they ever could about the minutest detail of your life, the so called reaching out, the tell me all society has become a millstone around the neck of private thought; and if you don’t comply, if you refuse to take part, then you get left behind, labelled as being cold, anti-social and lacking in empathy and emotionless to the core.

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(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Dawn Oberg, 2020 Revision. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The bookend serves its purpose, it is there to keep the words and descriptions of life, the important phrases of self-determination and inspiration, safe, rigid, unyielding to the passages of Time; it is there as an aid to keeping all that a person values and holds dear, focused, the attention of what they love, and perhaps at times, what they find most distasteful in the world.

Dawn Oberg, 2020 Revision. E.P. Review. full post

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

Erasure, The Neon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rebooting love as a concept may sound eerie, unnerving, cold, in the modern era, the constant need for affirmation is upon us, the signs are there, the way forward is from the ashes of neglect comes further hardship, the fall of hope, the springboard of the eternal. It is in the signs provided the less than truthful, the ones who have a vested interest in keeping the supply of love rebounding that we have to be wary of.

Erasure, The Neon. Album Review. full post

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

Sunjay, More Than A One Night. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It has almost become a cliche of its own making, the lockdown, our times concentrated on finding ways to express ourselves without exposing the soul to danger, the mind to harm, the flesh to the invisible barbs hiding in the sunlight; we seek a connection with a deeper and more substantial meaning than just the quick peck on the cheek from life, the thumbs up from a distance and the instant relay of communication from the modern mobile phone; in short we need, in fact we should insist, that life means More Than A One Night Stand.

Sunjay, More Than A One Night. Album Review. full post

(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Barry Briercliffe, Love Will Find A Way. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Love Will Find A Way, and whilst it might seem there are far too many obstacles in the way for such emotion to maintain a clear sight of its target, there is nothing that cannot be overcome by the persistence of devotion, friendship and affection; nothing that is pure and honest anyway.

It is to honesty that we must endeavour to be seen in the eyes of others, the false dawn of a thousand proposals are nothing more than sieges upon the rocks of falsehood, and to that end, Love stands no chance, love is thwarted even before it has the opportunity to hoist the sails and be done with such distractions as Helen of Troy.

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(341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

The Herron Brothers, Bouncing Down The Road. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Whilst a comic group might have prepared you for the moment with the words, “And now for something completely different“, to hear a spring on the step of a song where you might not have expected one, will no doubt catch you by surprise, and it is rare thought, a beautiful notion that no matter how much you may feel you know an artist, how in depth your mind has gotten underneath their words and pulse, that they can still leave you dancing to a different beat, that they will have you Bouncing Down The Road with a spiral smile all over your face.

The Herron Brothers, Bouncing Down The Road. Single Review. full post

(287 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Junior Dayvis, Elvis Is King. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Inside every human is a story waiting to come out, to be shared; it might not be a long tale, one of adventures, setbacks, of obstacles overcame, of glories gained, but it is a chronicle of events that deserves to be heard, to be understood, not as wishful thinking, but a contribution to society, to the pleasure that we took by proclaiming Elvis Is King, through to a privileged woman declaring herself as Queen of Hearts; stories happen, and all should be heard to understand the narrator and their life.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band, Big Town. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Everything returns to the space it once occupied, it might not feel the same, it might not carry the full weight of the vibe that once towered and loomed large over the shadows caught fighting for supremacy alongside nostalgia and reckoning, and yet it still feels homely, the pulse of experience carries it onwards, and there is a new appreciation for how the progression of the art, of the human soul, has been elevated to new standards, new ways of thinking.

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band, Big Town. Album Review. full post

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