Category Archives: Music

Mishra, The Loft Tapes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When something new comes your way, you can either embrace it or you can deny it, ignore it and let it slide away from your grip as easily as mist through your fingers. Many will travel down the road of ignorance, the modern age demands that we are somehow too busy to listen to something that isn’t within our perceived comfort zone, instead being satisfied by the constant drum beaten to which we have become accustomed to.

Johnny Lloyd, Low Fidelity: Vol 1. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A melancholic mood is one bound together in reflection, the vibe becomes more about the introspection of the self rather than being the life and soul of the party, and whilst others may avoid such confrontations, to refuse to look deep inside their own minds, to encounter, to place trust in looking beyond the Low Fidelity of what makes every person tick, that is the place where inspiration can surface without warning, and the results are often more intriguing.

Yvonne Lyon, Songs For Christmas. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The meaning of Christmas has become distorted, recklessly fought over in what seems to a titanic battle between consumerism and wanton displays of excess, and yet if we allow ourselves to dig a little deeper into our collective souls, we may find the spirit of the time of year is not dominated by what we have but what we are prepared to rejoice in, peace, love, harmony and the ability to hear a voice that speaks to the time and be at one with its song.

The Milk Carton Kids, The Only Ones. Album Review.

In the end The Only Ones who matter are those who seek to either build up your own dreams and those willing to help you through the darkest hours, anything else is cannon fodder for the masses who seek to deride your accomplishments and who take pleasure in their apathy.

For those who actively keep a look out for the kids whose picture adorns the sides of milk cartons, they are the ones to have on your side as we enter a new decade of music produced, the simple pleasure of a song that captures the best of what has been and which paves the way for time ahead, introspection, speculation and uncontainable.

Lexie Green, Black River. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A long continuous note, the stirring of an introduction that is measured in the profound as well as the meaning in which depth has a vested interest, this is the moment in which the astonishing mind of Lexie Green is reintegrated into the lives of the music lover and one which the anticipation for the eloquence of her thought is greeted with discerning fondness.

Finn Paul, Wind & Stone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is not much in life than can withstand the Wind & Stone when the elements decide humanity needs to be subjected to passion and the response of intimate warning that comes with Time. The wisdom of the age precludes that the walker must turn their face to the wind to feel life and that no hair remains unturned in its wrath and gentlest blow, whilst the block of stone that you pick up is just but a statue waiting to be fashioned.

Kankou, Kuma. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The merging of styles is always enhanced by the thrill of embracing a different culture; to stay within your own narrow point of view, to reside and seethe at the outside world and insist that the sense of pure only comes from your perceived understanding of self, that is when others have the right to step forth and have words with you.

To embrace another culture, to listen to it breathe is to know that regardless of where you come from, you can allow yourself to be fulfilled by constant reappraisal, that you can be an advocate for change.

Jimmy Carpenter, Soul Doctor. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We mentally note down the moment we meet some people, other’s might leave their first impressions in a piece of writing, a diary entry, a phone number scrawled on a paper handkerchief that was left in the hope of a connection, some might warrant being preserved in a novel; for good, or for ill, the moment we first meet another human soul is the memory it is built upon.

Fat-Suit, Waifs & Strays. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Waifs & Strays we find along life’s path are arguably more adapt to change and less likely to resist the beat of the consumer driven sound of the pure-bred, they have a knack for companionship in the darkest times, they are the light that fills a room with beauty, thought and sentiment; the waifs and strays are the ones that you come across and cannot but help love. Your mind may be on the one that ticks every box but sometimes you have to look beyond the expected and admire the difference that those who celebrate diversity and the in tune losing of one’s way can provide.

Bella Hardy, Postcards & Pocketbooks. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all undertake a journey, but quite often we are so wrapped up in mapping out our own possible routes that we forget others are placing their own faith in the stars to guide them, we don’t see the hazards they encounter along the way, we have no empathy for the struggle, and in the end we judge them on the Postcards & Pocketbooks they send us when they reach their destination. Such is the reflection of the human mind that we believe their route was plain sailing, whilst ours had to navigate every iceberg and shark infested waters possible.