Category Archives: Music

Paul Dunbar, Mercy. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Mercy comes not in the wake of violence, but in fearless gentleness afforded to those with humble minds and modesty weaved through their D.N.A., those who identify with the need for compassion, empathy of the times that the other may have withstood, and finally crumbled underneath, the generosity and quality that is, as the bard was persuaded to note, not strained, by temper or of spirit. Mercy is a right to all, it doesn’t mean that the action has been forgotten, but that is forgiven, understood.

Paul Dunbar, Mercy. Single Review. full post

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

Denai Moore, Modern Dread. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To create art that is beautiful, we first must be prepared for our minds to be destroyed by madness, by suffering the sense of the eternal struggle, and by being at odds with the world; nothing else will conjure up images of passion more, nothing else will sear the endeavour of the human condition with as much feeling.

Denai Moore, Modern Dread. Album Review. full post

(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Victor Camozzi, Black Dog. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It’s the big skies, the vision in many people’s minds that they first come to think of the United States of America as more than large imposing cities that stretch out of sight and the place where the dichotomy of political infighting is beyond their comprehension. These big skies are always blue, seamless, from coast to coast they offer beauty, the landscape of abundant fortitude and meaning; as Jim Morrison once surmised, it’s the country of the stoned immaculate and the big beat.

Victor Camozzi, Black Dog. Album Review. full post

(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Leonie Jakobi, Walk To West Berlin. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A country that’s divided is one of the great physical expressions of political dogma that humanity can impose upon itself and be seen from outside the boundary or map by others as shame, of dishonour, and to its worst degree, pride in ideological breakdown.

From Korea to Ireland and Cyprus and into the political chains of the question that governs the issues facing Moldova and Romania and North and South Ossetia, a divided country is one of frank circumstance that is only defeated by either war, or by love.

Leonie Jakobi, Walk To West Berlin. Single Review. full post

(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Peggy James, Paint Still Wet. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a part of us that will long to disbelieve the obvious, that we seem to naturally distrust the word of another human being, that we will actively seek to prove them wrong. We can be told categorically, even see a sign, that proclaims the words Paint Still Wet and we will go out of our way to prove that they are amiss in their assertions, erroneous in the way they present the truth.

Peggy James, Paint Still Wet. Album Review. full post

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

Jon Meadows, The Girl With No Name. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Girl With No Name is one that keeps her secrets close, her friends in doubt and those intrigued by her presence, undeterred in wanting to know and understand her fully, and without prejudice.

Following on from his excellent last single, I’ll Sail Away, Jon Meadows returns to the forefront of the Liverpool music thought with the release of a song that is not only electrically charged, but makes the mind relish the exercise it endures as it turns cartwheels, jumps to attention, and come alive to the hum that emanates from the soul of the artist and explodes the heart of the listener, completely.

Jon Meadows, The Girl With No Name. Single Review. full post

(293 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

Savoy Brown, Ain’t Done Yet. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Legends never walk away, they simply roll up their sleeves, survey the world and its issues and then get to work placing down the observations and declaring that whilst the planet turns, we Ain’t Done Yet.

There is always work to be done, to provide change in the minds of those who feel left behind by the speed of the world, who are neglected by society, we have a moral duty to be legends in our own time to facilitate, to employ such dynamism that the phrase Ain’t Done Yet becomes not one of possible defeat, but of enormity grasped, that the resonance supplied by the extraordinary, such as the British Blues Band, Savoy Brown, becomes an electric explosion of good, of passion, and in which the connection to the legendary becomes tangible and complete.

Savoy Brown, Ain’t Done Yet. Album Review. full post

(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

David Gilmour, Yes, I Have Ghosts. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We look back upon our life and see regrets, the misspoke words, the decision not fully endorsed, the anger, the kick of shame; these moments find ways to hang around us, even in the most blameless life, regrets turn into spectres, into phantasms that stay in our vision, taunting us, reminding us that we once created havoc, once we built a wall of mayhem for others to knock down.

David Gilmour, Yes, I Have Ghosts. Single Review. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Tom Houston, Gap In The Fence. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Without a poets heart, life surely must be one steeped in unending anger, devoid of meaning, and one that does not bare thinking about. In every profession, from bricklaying to being a chef, from shop keeper to pottery maker, even in the heart of a politician, there must reside some element of the poet, the one that feels the glory and the pulse of passion that makes life, even in the darkest hour, one of beauty.

Tom Houston, Gap In The Fence. Album Review. full post

(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Ghost Avenue, Even Angels Fall. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of celestial balance being tilted may escape our ears, but the effect on our senses as we understand that Even Angels Fall, that cherubs, spirits and guardians can just as be prone to temptation as any human, that they may also tumble in the vacuum of enticement and lure, can be devastating, the fall is such that the noise rings out around the world and the shock wave is carried through our own souls.

Ghost Avenue, Even Angels Fall. Album Review. full post

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