Category Archives: Music

Sue Hedges, Songs In A Different Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

All that you believe that you know, is but a partial understanding of the whole picture. We see the finished canvas that has had artist’s angst plagued upon it, the countless hours of dedication, of fear, of joy, but we never notice, unless we are truly fortunate, the change that overcomes, not just the painter, but every artist or lover of a particular skill to which they not only want to master, but which they wish to adapt, to bend in a new and exciting direction.

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

Rory Gallagher, The Best of Rory Gallagher. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

A taste is often all you need to appreciate just how beautiful, piercing, penetrating and soul enlarging a piece of art can be, gratifying certainly, passionate and easily rousing the mind to ask for more, to seek the obscure, to revel in the artist’s and creator’s minds.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

The Strunts, Too Much Of Everything. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Timing is only everything when serendipity deigns to lend a hand, the sense of fortune, the coincidence and the happy accident are all there to fulfil a schedule that even destiny would not turn its nose up at, that it would not sulk at the thought of entertaining; for such moments of meeting between a group of people is not to place your mind in a strunt; it is there to bring on joy and humour, to bring an end to the misery of thinking you are alone.

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

Almost Autumn, Grow. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Summer’s over, the fascination with stifling heat and waves lapping at the feet can give way to the time and pleasure that of Almost Autumn, for whilst spring spells earthly renewal and the outlook of a year to come, it is in those days of autumn that we find a greater hope, that all that must be will come again once more, that the leaves show their full range of colour, that the light from a different angle in the sky gladdens the heart and sky, for what is better than residing in the heart of autumn than knowing it has so much to offer the world in terms of growth and beauty.

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

Longstay, The Quarantine Sessions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is well and good that some who call themselves influencers find even more ways to talk down to the multitude when it comes to the idea of motivation, that their way is the only way to feel a crushing happiness in times when the world has changed inexplicably to one that has become almost unrecognisable, a shadow, an earthly path that has become crowded with brambles and weeds.

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(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

The Suns, Everything’s Coming Up Roses. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A tribute does not always go hand in hand with respect, at best a moment recaptured can glow like the sun in the sky without a single cloud obscuring it, bright, worshipful, praiseworthy from all concerned, and then there are the times when it comes as crass, irresponsible, censured by parties and public alike. Tribute and respect though is an honour to which Liverpool’s The Suns hold deep in their souls, and when it comes to one of the city’s own, when it comes to the deep beauty that Colin Vearncombe provided in his guise of Black.

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(352 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Only Child, Sound E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Sound, it is important, it is vital for communication and the way we appreciate the message being offered to us; and whilst silence can speak volumes, it has been too much in evidence during 2020, silence has reigned, silence has kept us from being human, from being us.

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

Voodoo Six, Simulation Game. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We never truly know who is watching our every move, who is beating the drum behind the scenes in our favour, or even those critically and actively finding ways to make our name slip gently into the arena of giants, all we can hope for is that it is for real, that the backing is one of truth and certainty and not some sort of hoax, pre-arranged and one that is in the back pocket of those that see life as an amusement to visit on the hopeful, that the Simulation Game is not one controlled by the liars, the thieves and the morally bankrupt.

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

Kenneth J. Nash, For Sarah. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Sometimes you don’t need to have read a thousand-page novel to understand just how complex the life of the writer is, and how they are striving to illuminate the life of sadness, of melancholic love. Occasionally a string of carefully laid out vignettes will achieve the same aim, signed, sealed, and delivered with open heart, For Sarah, for all that feel the time to heal when tragedy or adversity, strikes at the very centre of our world.

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(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

The Kitchen. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson, James Badge Dale, Brian d’Arcy James, Jeremy Bobb, Margo Martindale, Bill Camp, Common, E.J. Bonilla, Myk Watford, Wayne Duvall, Pamela Dunlop, John Sharian, Brian Tarantina, Will Swenson, Annabella Sciorra, Bernie McInerney, Sharon Washington, Matt Helm, Angus O’Brien, Ciaran O’Reilly, Nicholas Zoto, Maren Heary, Stephen Singer, Tatienne Hendricks-Tellefsen, Jordan Gelber, Brandon Uranowitz, Bernie Rachell, Tina Benko, Susan Blommaert, George Riddle, Tom Patrick Stephens, Ann McDonough, Joseph Russo.

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(664 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)