Category Archives: Music

Kailey Nicole. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The influence of others is not confined to how we are seen to be raised by them, but in how we also appreciate what they themselves had to go through to become who they are now, before we set eyes on them, before we hopefully felt their love and warmth inhabit our every waking thought and dedication to our own particular journey in their tale.

Robert Vincent, In This Town You’re Owned. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is beauty in regret, there is serenity in empathy, and without either, without experiencing the pang, the fear of losing your soul to outside influences, and yet finding that you require those forces to demand change, to seek assurance that the world can be a better place if we all pull in the same direction, then we are doomed to be forever mournful of the path that we took but which was least resisted.

Ian Roland & The Subtown Set, Double Rainbow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The promise that humanity will never have to face the flood again seems to be fading, the last sign of an uncaring world has been played out, and we are all to blame; what is needed is a miracle, the appearance, the remainder that we are here to care and to appreciate each more than we have been led to believe is possible by those who wear suits to meetings and make every detail depend on cost and value. What is needed in these dark times, is a Double Rainbow, the extra assurance supplied by each person that if we must flood, then it is not by our own hands that the waters and tears overwhelm us.

King Solomon Hicks, Harlem. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Not everybody has a story about Harlem, even those that live in the boroughs that surround the old Dutch enclave arguably, unless they are in the know and understand the delicate balance of life and the beauty contained within, find themselves more drawn to the dreams of excess in Manhattan and the outer reaches of New York City. Yet if you find yourself there, if you raise a smile in the direction of all, the stories you hear are amongst the most urgent, most stimulating and sincere you are likely to hear.

Brian Bordello, Liverpool Hipster Scene. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The hipster will always find a way to extol the virtue of their own brief encounter with whatever is current, whatever shines like an exploding meteorite caught on camera and they will ignore, often to their peril, the beauty, the rage, the innocent and the demanding as they search in vain for that which reflects the way they perceive they are looked upon.

Gemma Mae Anderson, Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Life is not a sentence to be endured, to be suffered and treated as a series of trials in which the only sustained answer comes with the acceptance of our lot, instead, and no matter the circumstances, it should be the experience in which we are defined, and seen to live in what should be different circumstances but nonetheless, still living, hoping and reaching our fullest potential.

Life should also always accept that it is about raising awareness, of beating down prejudice, of the pre-conceived notion that harms so many, and above all leaving a positive presence when people think of our soul or catch themselves uttering our name.

Salt House, Huam. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The first time you heard the call of the owl as you wandered wearily through the forest or local woods after the dark had settled in and nature just got that little bit more real, would have arguably been the moment when you realised just how vulnerable you were to your emotions, that sound, that Huam as the Scottish language would describe it, is enough to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make you understand that you are not the master of your environment, that the world is bigger and infinitely more complex that you first gave it credit. 

Ben Bostick, Among The Faceless Crowd. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We all have regrets, no matter how hard we try to purge them, or even deny to others that they exist, that will always follow us around like a black cloud of wrong decision in an otherwise blameless and unyielding sky.

John Blues Boyd, Through My Eyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never mind walking a mile in another’s person’s shoes, that only teaches you a partial history of their life, to understand their existence, the things they have seen, the views they have held and the lives they have seen rise, fall and become history, then the only way to experience empathy is to heed them when they say view life Through My Eyes.

Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow, Pill Pilots. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is not in deep waters that we find the use of a guide, but in dealing with the shallower and smaller depths of life that we wish for a navigator, the one who will, without qualm or apprehension of spirit, know exactly the right path in which to lead you away from danger and back to the high seas and the thrill of adventure.