Category Archives: Music

Andrew J. Newall, Janus. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The face that is able to look forward with anticipation and reflect upon past deeds and see both as equally valid moments of Time is to be honoured in stories and applause. We cheer as the chimes of midnight cause us to see the departing year and the days ahead in the seconds that it takes to grasp the hand of our neighbour and attempt to sing the words of joyous tidings by Robert Burns, so to is the birth of the Janus, the god of transition and reflections, celebrated and praised once more into existence. 

Andrew J. Newall, Janus. Album Review. full post

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

John Blek, The Embers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Most people will look into the fire and see The Embers slowly losing their drama and they believe that it is a sign that the roar has begun to fade, that the kindling that warmed the soul has lost its ability to instill heat into the world; nothing could be further from the truth, to see the embers is to know that fire can be re-stoked, and in the hands of one with their own fire burning away in the hearts, their own enthusiastic inferno raging underneath the surface, then nature has its own way of sparking the fire back to life.

John Blek, The Embers. Album Review. full post

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

La-Llamas, Bread And Jam. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In a world that values the instant gratification and the glories of the vanity inspired, is it possible to even extol the virtues of philosophy and to an extent that of permanent friendship in the same breath as those opinions held of the latest gossip and casual acquaintances to which we have become emboldened by in a the land of social media and the quick fix of gratitude of jam yesterday, today and tomorrow.

La-Llamas, Bread And Jam. Album Review. full post

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

Talinka, Rainbow Over Kolonaki. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Evocative by name, evocative by nature…it is perhaps the closest any of us will get to the feeling of being haunted by something we cannot put our finger on, that we are encouraged to understand the aura of our mood change, to question the cold touch of mystery as its sends tingles up and down our spine, and the acknowledgement that the quality of what we have gleaned, been shown a fraction of its power, resides with us long after the suggestion of the evocative may have faded.

Talinka, Rainbow Over Kolonaki. Album Review. full post

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

Collateral. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Collateral can be seen as holding a sense of security when all around you is holding you ransom to conform, to toe the wide line of obedience, submission and not trespass into creative insubordination, Collateral though is ammunition, it is knowing that what is in the heart can devastate the mind with urgency and command.

For the four-piece Kent based band, Collateral, their eponymously titled debut album is one that comes on the back of the immensely enjoyable four strong song E.P. 4 Shots, and with their backs covered, the shoot out of great Rock sounds sends shivers down the spines of those who stare like frightened rabbits down the barrel of the warmth, expectation and music delivery to which Collateral have become a force.

Collateral. Album Review. full post

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

HMLTD, West Of Eden. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The image of Eden is one that, regardless of a person’s religious beliefs or knowledge, is one that resonates, that is deep in the psyche of the individual and that of society as a whole. The significance of the moment where humanity left the security of its embryo, the land of plenty, its connection with a thought of higher power, has placed itself though art into the hearts and minds of all who seek some sort of redemption and the reasons, however tenuous, to their own lack of positive influence upon the world.

HMLTD, West Of Eden. Album Review. full post

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

Aerialists, Dear Sienna. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A tightrope held between two states of mind is not one that is easily traversed, the fall awaits one conscious or the other and the only way to survive the possible inevitable plunge is to look ahead, pay no attention to anything else around you, and live your life as if it were the only one that matters, a letter to the faithful, a telegram to the world which starts, not in let down with the greeting Dear John, but instead with the upbeat and personal salutation of Dear Sienna.

Aerialists, Dear Sienna. Album Review. full post

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

Sgoil Chiuil Na Gaidhealtachd, The Final Trawl. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It shouldn’t even be up for debate, and yet every year we find ourselves wrestling with some sort of demon that openly states that the youth of today have no idea what the world is truly about and yet we applaud them when they put their minds together to create art. We warn them though that art doesn’t pay the bills, that they must know, in our words, stop the nonsense and buckle down, become useful to society, not to daydream about offering the world something more valuable than being yet another bean counter and person who says yes to everything the manager utters.

Sgoil Chiuil Na Gaidhealtachd, The Final Trawl. Album Review. full post

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

Joe Gideon, Armagideon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When Armageddon comes, invariably we won’t know what has hit us, the seven trumpets may sound, but we will be too immersed in the act of gluing our eyes to the latest gif and retweeting the odd moment of banality to wonder what the noise was, the sound of the bell tolling for us all.

Joe Gideon, Armagideon. Album Review. full post

(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Nicolas Godin, Concrete And Glass. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Not all is built upon what some may consider to be on fertile ground, life has a habit of taken the expertly laid plans and finding ways to makes them shatter into pieces, sands shift, expectations rise and fall, and yet throughout it all, Concrete And Glass will somehow find ways to prove the enormity and scale of how humanity lived, soared and eventually found a way to live with itself.

Nicolas Godin, Concrete And Glass. Album Review. full post

(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)