Category Archives: Music

Becca Stevens, Wonderbloom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What blooms should be encouraged to keep growing, to keep performing and illuminating the passions of others. For what blooms more than that which is regarded with sincerity and belief, and which throws the whispers of the malcontent and jealous into disarray.

One does not regard the unkept, the shadow like wraith, and possibly to their own undoing, for each has its own potential and story to tell in this life, but the ones that find a way to flourish and thrive and inspire beauty, texture, colour and the wisdom of the finite, then there are those whose presence stirs your mind and the Wonderbloom they employ as you are caught by the song they sing.

Becca Stevens, Wonderbloom. Album Review. full post

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

Euan Blackman, Think About You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all like to believe that somewhere out there is someone who at this moment in time is unearthing a memory of you that had long been placed in a dusty corner of the attic like mind, that they have blown off the cobwebs and swiped the decaying spider of the ages past and watched it scuttle off on the floorboards in a huff, and that have seen you, relished in your now missed company and have smiled, broadly, grinning at something you once said, some look that you gave gives them reason to chuckle.

Euan Blackman, Think About You. Single Review. full post

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

The Maniacs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some meeting are meant to be and yet they dissolve into thin air as, others come together with the seismic force of nature that can only be explained away as a comet slamming forth into the ocean and causing a tidal wave that is several miles high, and yet leaves the watcher with a sense of serenity that cannot be easily explained away.

The Maniacs. Album Review. full post

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

King Calaway, Rivers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rivers tell the stories that we often cannot hear, and if we do, we don’t understand the meaning, too often cast adrift into the deeper waters where we stand no chance of hollering to the shore or being seen by the ones who care, instead we guess at the fortune we have that the river is at least taking us somewhere, guiding us as it whispers, singing, if we are fortunate to even glean a perception of its power, us a lullaby of grace.

King Calaway, Rivers. Album Review. full post

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

Ryan Perry, High Risk, Low Reward. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

No places a wager with more sincerity than the person who sees the value in the High Risk, Low Reward scenario. Anybody can back a sure thing and look as if they are geniuses, most people slap the winner on the back after the race has been won, but for those that back the near impossible with the knowledge that all that matters is they have succeeded, those are the ones to whom you throw admiring glances at.

Ryan Perry, High Risk, Low Reward. Album Review. full post

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

Me And Deboe. The Lesson (Culture Fruit, Go Live, Mother Shipton, Friend.) Single Reviews.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Unless you have been under a rock for a decade, or perhaps the idea of seeing arguably one of the finest duos to emerge since the days of recorded music first took its pulse out into the world and the freedom hard won by the song writer to walk their own walk, then Me and Deboe will stand in your mind as the epitome of the craft, and for many they rival the talent of the heroes of the genre, Simon and Garfunkel, with exceptional reason.

Me And Deboe. The Lesson (Culture Fruit, Go Live, Mother Shipton, Friend.) Single Reviews. full post

(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Pet Shop Boys, Hotspot. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is the beat proclaimed in earnest, and there is pulse that is heard underneath the layers of skin, the one that raises the hair on the back of the neck and finds the senses tingling and dancing with delight. Both have their purpose, both have their own signals of intent, but it is to the maturity of expression that comes with the pulse that the duo that make up the Pet Shop Boys that sees their own beat once more become a primal and scintillating Hotspot.

Pet Shop Boys, Hotspot. Album Review. full post

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

Barry Jones, Songs From A(Bed)Room. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We hold our head in our hands and look for the signs in which we know and understand will guide us; not exactly a prayer, more of a request that our time is never wasted, that even when we look back at our youth, perhaps the first real inclination that we are embroiled in the lonely and remote thoughts that our mind conjures up, that the songs and stories we make up at that point are the ones that drive us when we grow older.

Barry Jones, Songs From A(Bed)Room. E.P. Review. full post

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

Jon Meadows, I’ll Sail Away. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a dream for many, the promise of the romanced thought but one delivered with a generation of force that insists it can handle all the extreme and negative judgements that go with it, that to be able to declare when you have had enough of the ill considerations and personal set backs that I’ll Sail Away, is to uphold your own pride, your belief and your own view, that you are worth more than others will ever see in you.

Jon Meadows, I’ll Sail Away. Single Review. full post

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

Ross The Boss, Born Of Fire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Born Of Fire, conceived in the harsh surroundings of war, we pick the battles that have sired us and been part of our surrounding, we kick out at the flame but then we add to it with our own special fury, the gasoline on the naked sparks that warms the soul to the point of providing its own continuous blaze; such is the respect when the fire rages beyond what people may have thought was originally possible that to be born in the searing heat offers a chance for the greatest shadows to be witnessed and explored as they dance on the walls for all to see.

Ross The Boss, Born Of Fire. Album Review. full post

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