Category Archives: Music

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)

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.

Kailey Nicole. E.P. Review. full post

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

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.

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

(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

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.

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

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

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.

King Solomon Hicks, Harlem. Album Review. full post

(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

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.

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

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

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.

Gemma Mae Anderson, Life. Album Review. full post

(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)