Category Archives: Music

Pottery, Welcome To Bobby’s Motel. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The clay and the potter are only part of the deal in which the object you come to know, to love, is created. The whole process is born of Time, of failure, of passing trends, and ultimately persistence, the sense that determination to see the image that has filled your creative urge will see the moment beyond the fires in the kiln, that the design, the conception and foundation of your art will stand in splendour for all to see in an art gallery in an exotic land, or even in a lobby of an homely establishment, one that might have a neon sign above the reception desk proclaiming the legend, Welcome To Bobby’s Motel.

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(514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Louisiana’s LeRoux, One Of Those Days. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of the Big Beat may have come out of the Virginia swamps, it may have been delivered by radio deep in the heart of Texas, but its soul, the heartbeat of the river of music comes most assuredly from Louisiana, from the home a different way of celebrating life’s victories and charming fluctuations.

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

Kat Riggins, Cry Out. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The compliment of being compared to others who have strode the same path as you is hard to shake off, even more so when they are considered luminaries of the art you yourself are aiming to emulate, to place your name within, even perhaps ensure that you maintain its pulse. The compliment is always to be taken with gratitude, with the feeling of honour, and yet there will always be apert of the performer that wants to Cry Out, to shout to the world, judge me for who I am and what I may achieve.

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

Jackson/Williams, Venus And The Crescent Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Beauty is often a reward that is tainted with scepticism, with the reminder that it is only skin deep and that those who practice such ethereal fleeting moments have little else but vanity for company, narcissism and hollowness as bedfellows. Beauty though is not just the appearance on the face of the human being, the flawed perception of pride in one’s looks, it is also the grace to which the heavens hold sway, and in which nature in all its boldness makes art possible.

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

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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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