Category Archives: Music

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Beautiful Ugly: Trance Portals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Whilst we may crave for the unique lyric that catches our attention, that one line that wants us to embrace its message and sing its virtue out loud as if it has become a mantra, a modern hymn of rejoice or sorrow filled chant that digs deep into the art of melancholy, it is to the building block of the song, of the album, that allows the listener’s imagination to be encouraged, to be stimulated by the virtue of the complete instrumental curated for maximum thought and confident rhythm of life.

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

Phantomy: From The Wild. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

From The Wild, never from peace, do the offerings of ingenuity flourish. It almost feels innate to humanity’s progression that in throws of chaos we find ways to exert influence, muscle, and persuasion to pour our very being into sharp focus; and as Finnish newcomers Phantomy aptly show in their debut release, From The Wild, the lessons forged in heat are the ones that capture the raw intensity of our soul and wilful determination to be heard.

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(348 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Max Rael: The Enemy Is Us. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We lose faith in ourselves quicker than we do others, at times we can look at ourselves in the mirror and see the face of the one that holds us back, whose existence can mock us without reproach, and we feel the agency of anger and the motivation of attack from that which comes from within because we realise with certainty that The Enemy Is Us, and it frightens us, it terrifies us, and yet can create through the tension such art that it acts as a salve, as a calming liniment of appeasement. 

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(519 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Kemp Harris: The America Chronicles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For many different reasons we may ask of ourselves what has become of the America we loved, the post war influence on modern culture that caught the likes of Generation X in its opportunity and the promise of freedom from the wasted youth and lost home grown government blandness, or even a haven for the Millennial seeking inspiration in social issues and the recent of music from the land of the neo-punk and new goth standards, all would feel entitles to ask what has become of America.

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(423 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Infamous Stiffs: The Ornery Six. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Never apologise for who you are, never express contriteness for the sound you create, look the public in the eye and dare them to find fault in the majesty of expression, of your individuality.

It is a lesson that any artist finds themselves always continually testing the limits of, what could grab the attention of the new possible listener or sticking to the guns and delivering a purity of no-nonsense Punk Rock delivery with a volley of drums and a passion for rebellious disobedience you are known for.

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(306 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Dead End Irony: Battles And Brotherhood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Attitude in the wrong hands can be devastating to the conscious of those caught up in the maelstrom, a cyclone that sweeps you off your feet and leaves you with nothing but broken and shattered dreams of unfulfilled truth and dreams. Attitude in the right hands is perplexingly cool, you don’t know you have been entangled in the wind and storm until you reach the apex of the motion and see beyond the horizon, for what is to be witnessed is power wielded with impervious brilliance.

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(369 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Terence Blacker: Misfit’s Jamboree. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Those that strive to fit in lose something of themselves in the process, they intentionally misplace the ability to celebrate a uniqueness to which their destiny wrote for them with kindness; to stand proud and waving a flag of individual groove at the Misfit’s Jamboree should be the ultimate face of expression in a world that promotes blandness and the lacking of talent above the sincere matchless exclusivity offered by the creatively astute. 

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(390 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Megan Walker: It’s A Cult. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst social media has been a boon in many respects, it could be argued that at times we should be looking at its dangerous, tentacle like intrusion into our lives as a warning of what is to come, a foreshadowing where we are even more divided, placed into a credit like system for our beliefs and our unwillingness to be immersed into any system that screams loudly to our gut reaction that It’s A Cult.

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(331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

California Irish: The Mountains Are My Friends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Caught between the darkness of space and the fathomless depths of the ocean, we might consider the plainness of the land to be our faithful companion in life, but it is with a certain relish that we see the natural uplift of that horizon, one that brings us closer to the heavens without fearing the wrath of other’s gods and keeps us out of direct danger should the sea overwhelm the ground we walk on that will lead us to declare with a kind of poetic emotion that The Mountains Are My Friends.

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(495 words, 1 image, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Metallica: Load. 2025 Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Five years on from the internationally bestselling album Metallica, the thrash metal band returned with a different style than the fans were used to, and arguably the difference in sound, in attitude, and appearance had some scratching their heads, and some arguably utterly confused about the near 180-degree turnaround in terms of songwriting and heavy riff displacement, and yet as the band release their 2025 reissue of Load, what comes across is a resilience of Time, that the reminder of what we as fans perceive as ownership of sound and expectation is an unavoidable truth that we are wrong; that the artist is, and always will be the ones to have to have the last word on how they present themselves to the wider world.

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(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)