Category Archives: Music

Brian Bordello, The King of No-Fi. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We don’t take enough care to the words of the softly spoken, instead we find relief, a sense of belonging in those who raise their voice and allow their mouths to often engage before they have had chance to take hold of the appropriate response to the situation they find themselves in.

Even when the softly spoken and whispered grace has been in the past vociferous, angry, punk agitation, truthful barbs designed to provoke a real reaction from the blind and the wantonly silent, we still find ways to treat the creativity and application of sensitivity with disregard; and it much to our shame and embarrassment that we allow this to take place, that the lone piper, the whisperer of truth is ignored.

Brian Bordello, The King of No-Fi. Album Review. full post

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

Gareth Heesom, Love At Night. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Art is not just one being, a creature of delight we must keep feeding, it is a multitude, a series of symbiotic meanings which require constant nourishment, perhaps even the souls of those who dream, those who Love At Night, for Art is a beast, and a lover, it is generous, willing, giving, it also finds ways to leave you during the darkness, alone, frightened and searching for meaning amongst the pictures you see merging as one form melds with another, in beauty, in collaboration, in strength.

Gareth Heesom, Love At Night. Single Review. full post

(330 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Jon Anderson, 1000 Hands. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Despite the popular saying, Time will find ways to wait for the sensational to make itself known, it might not wait for the dull, for those whose belief sees them find ways, despite evidence to the contrary, to class themselves as ordinary and routinely static, but in the hands of the extraordinary, in the matters to which perfection is arguably sought, it will grant a seeming pause in the knowledge that what will appear, will be worth the wait, that the exceptional has the ability to become timeless, even when Time is still moving on.

Jon Anderson, 1000 Hands. Album Review. full post

(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Walter Trout, Ordinary Madness. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it…” effortless words of wisdom framed by the writer Charles Bukowski, and given even greater illumination and ferocity by the blues man Walter Trout in his latest album, Ordinary Madness.

The world is not just a foolish place, but it stands aloof from the rest of the universe, revelling in its own lunacy, driven by jesters and clowns, misleading and double-talking buffoons, it is no wonder that we perhaps feel crowded in our thoughts, almost helpless in our actions, and yet there is always help, the figure offering ordinary madness, the proposal that refuses to acknowledge anything other than the fact that we are extraordinary; that madness is just a by-product of the beauty we can appreciate in others.

Walter Trout, Ordinary Madness. Album Review. full post

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

Cary Balsano, We Like It. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the eye of the tornado the peace of our existence can be found, the silence in amongst the maelstrom, the seduction of the moment’s influential still is to feel resistant to the tide that is overwhelming all around, the swirl, the cloud, the rampaging dust of our times; instead we can lay back, for a while, for a brief respite, see the sweetness peace on offer, and say We Like It.

Cary Balsano, We Like It. Single Review. full post

(318 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

CPR. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When you have packed so much into life as David Crosby, it becomes almost impossible to not do anything well. To expose yourself to everything that life may offer, and even be willing to feel your way in the darkest of places to find parts of your psyche, is to be able to create art that comforts all those that stand by your side or who may listen as the days grow more intense, more personal.

CPR. Album Review. full post

(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Calum Ingram, Dancing In The Moonlight/Demon Eyes. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Exposing yourself to a world of contrasts is what makes life exciting, fulfilling, strange, and unforgettable; the problem with many in this world is that they sample a taste of one, and then they never move on, they gorge, feast to their heart’s content on what has already made them fall in love.

Calum Ingram, Dancing In The Moonlight/Demon Eyes. Single Review. full post

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

CPR, Just Like Gravity. Album Review (Reissue).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Gravity, in the end, will only pull us down, as Marillion noted in their haunting track The Only Unforgivable Thing, a reminder perhaps that we can only fly so long on the wings of promise, on the air currents of experience and dreams; eventually we have to consider that we may have flown too high, that like Icarus, we must be brought down to Earth and confront and assess our beliefs.

CPR, Just Like Gravity. Album Review (Reissue). full post

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

Erasure, Shot A Satellite. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When the neon lights blaze, we cannot but be helped to be drawn to them, to witness the message they powerfully place into our minds, to acknowledge the subliminal mindset of advertising, or if we are more involved with the signals beaming down from outer space, the news that somewhere, somehow, someone Shot A Satellite and the repercussions are electric, bountiful and mysterious and full of intrigue for what is to come.

Erasure, Shot A Satellite. Single Review. full post

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

Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam, Ain’t No Man A Good Man. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Ain’t No Man A Good Man; however, when the mood catches the wind in the right direction, when the pathos of our times is able to set the sky alight with flames and fury, then in these times, a great man comes to the crease and finds a way to offer a piece of their soul which will calm and soothe the nerves, that will enlighten and take the pressure off to such an extent that the sky, like the mind, itself clears.

Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam, Ain’t No Man A Good Man. Album Review. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)