Category Archives: Music

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. 

Salt House, Huam. Album Review. full post

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

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.

Ben Bostick, Among The Faceless Crowd. Album Review. full post

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

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.

John Blues Boyd, Through My Eyes. Album Review. full post

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

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.

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

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

Albert Cummings, Believe. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You either have rhythm, or you embrace the emotional creativity to be found in others as they unburden the tempo that resides in the heartbeat and the reflex of their soul. Rhythm is the pulse that satisfies when all else stagnates, when all becomes dust and dull routine and it invariably leads one to Believe in magic, in soul, and in the remarkable to whom nothing it seems is beyond creating.

Albert Cummings, Believe. Album Review. full post

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

Jake Shimabukuro, Trio. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The atmospheric brilliance displayed by the unexpected is such that when it hits you, when it finds you gasping for breath in the wake of its unmistakeable majesty, it leaves all that you may have become used to, floundering under the weight of your pre-conceived ideas.

Such is the presence created by Jake Shimabukuro and his ukulele, the pleasure that bounds forth is not only atmospheric, it positively invokes the passion found in the realm of imagination and asks the listener to embrace the fundamental essence of tone, mood and musical environment; a point of maintain the healthy respect to which art and the ability to appreciate are the twin pillars of civilisation.

Jake Shimabukuro, Trio. Album Review. full post

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

Richard Marx, Limitless. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is every reason to enjoy the feeling of the broken heart that has been delivered with sincerity by the artist, and unlike real life where the pain lingers in your soul for what can be the longest time and can which devour you till there is nothing but a shell residing in human form, when it is felt in the connection between art and human existence, it comes with the knowledge that heart will mend, that it will grow and appreciate what was put before them.

Richard Marx, Limitless. Album Review. full post

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

Green Day, Father Of All… Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

The life and death of the party are twin elements in which the voyeur is drawn to, across all aspects of art, these two chains of interpretation can always be seen hogging the limelight, jostling for attention as the crowds gather to witness exuberance dance with melancholy and the animated conversation thrive between the energetic soul and the downward spiral of the unravelling passion.

Green Day, Father Of All… Album Review. full post

(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

My Dying Bride, Tired Of Tears. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We should be declaring that we are sick of being sick from the rooftops, and demanding that those that make up the one percent elite listen when we shout that we are Tired Of Tears and that we should be able to believe just that little bit more in the power of humanity, that we can endure the worst nightmares that come our way and that those rains that fall from the eyes are only released when we have joy and the memory of beauty in our minds.

My Dying Bride, Tired Of Tears. Single Review. full post

(478 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Rory Gallagher, Check Shirt Wizard – Live In ’77. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

A Calling Card from the past, the unexpected reminder of how your first introduction went and the abiding memories that stir, that reason, that plot with generous heart to return the smile of chance encounter or inspired reunion to your face; such is the power of music, of art overall, that we forget just how important such experiences are.

Selected from a series of gigs that accompanied the 1976 studio album release, Calling Card, Check Shirt Wizard – Live In ’77 is an album of understated pomp, unknowingly regal and simmering, silent panache that arguably has captured the great man at his most elegant and commercial best.

Rory Gallagher, Check Shirt Wizard – Live In ’77. Album Review. full post

(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)