Category Archives: Music

The Fast Camels, Full Of Strange. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The ordinary life is arguably the most noble, and hardest to maintain; the world, the madness of the universe and the sheer audacity of everyone around you to pull you back and forth is enough for anyone to think that their life never stops, that it is forever spinning out of control. The eccentric and the wonderfully unexpected can sit back in quieter reflection, they know that the extraordinary is a safer place to dwell and are always ready for the Full Of Strange and the unconventional to make their presence known, and are always up for the challenge that they bring.

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

Ten Sheds, Deathrow Disco. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Deathrow Disco is always happy to admit one more to the ball, the glitterball revolves serenely around those who gaze upwards, caught as by the temptation of the tinsel, of the gleam that acknowledges that you will steal time, pickpocket the tune of your choice and relish the opportunity to dance like never before, as if your life depended on it.

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(360 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Emily Jane White, Immanent Fire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Some people are not just born to light the way for others to follow, they radiate a storm that is so undeniably beautiful that the trail blazed is one that a waiting time of eternity to catch a glimpse in its raw and unfiltered is only matched by that of the expectancy when confronted by the Aurora Borealis for the first time.

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(445 words, 1 image, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Simon And The Astronauts, The Entertainment Suite. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Jam said That’s Entertainment, but if entertainment is all you need, then where do you go for enrichment, for the spark that kicks of a cycle of passion and the desire to understand what is being placed before you; a moment of entertainment might raise a smile. The Entertainment Suite is an endless succession of enhanced pleasure, one where a smile takes you beyond the simple occasion and is instead a complement that lasts.

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(353 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

En Declin. A Possible Human Drift Scenario.Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There was a time when the word Progressive was seen as one of being overblown, of residing in the minutes through the symphonic display and the elongated chorus, a timeless wonder that didn’t know when its time was seemingly up.

Progressive though, as it was always apt to do, evolved, the art of the story changed and out of its shadow a new way of thinking took to the stage, one on which the human factor became more apparent and the reliance on the oblique became a backdrop to old world fantasies.

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(416 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Jeff Lynne’s ELO, From Out Of Nowhere. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

From Out Of Nowhere can come, if we are fortunate, illumination or belief, if we are ill-fated to find that nowhere is where we could be heading, then belief in the way we have lived can be considered nothing, a personal trip in to the void of expression and the blackness of the times we inhabit.

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

Leif Vollebekk, New Ways. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can signal all you want the reasons of desire but if you don’t make it clear enough then you will always fall into the realm of bad habits, rather than experiencing the pastures which feed the New Ways of thinking.

Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk has found that place in which the different approach is one of virtue and disregards cynicism, and in his follow up to the album Twin Solitude, what comes across is a series of commentaries but with the edge of virtue attached to them, a voice that edges between the strength of truth carried by the likes of Leonard Cohen and the beauty that was gifted to Art Garfunkel and a set of songs that are to be held as if placed in your hands with care, to nurture and to set free.

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

Joe Brown, Joe Brown: 60th Anniversary Box Set. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is only in retrospective that we can see all that was built before we arrived on the scene, that we can fully understand what has been created, and the longer the endeavour, the more fruitful the discovery when we encounter it. No matter the time it takes to sift through the material, the regret you may have for not being part of the journey until perhaps it was too late, all that should be considered is that you have arrived to see the tower alight with wonder and with solemnity of emotion intact.

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(470 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Elijah James And The Nightmares, Because I’m A Giant. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is a special kind of confidence that cannot be ignored, to do would be unkind, to undermine a soul, and in the end only shows you up to be of a frivolous and undesirable nature. The complex relationship we have with confidence can be hindered by believing it is nothing more than arrogance, a disguise to be worn by those with nothing in their hearts but deception; however the truth is that honourable confidence is worth protecting, if it smiles and does all that it has said that it will, then confidence is the illumination that paves the way to enlightenment.

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

Museum Of Backward Hats, End Of Days/Pain. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The End Of Days, nothing perhaps so biblical, just a recognition that all things, in the words of George Harrison, must pass.

It could be argued that we all have an end of days somewhere in our life, and not just the sense of absolute that hivers in the background, ushering us along to the grave and the mournful cries of evermore but in that what we once listened to no longer holds us to the same sense of creative urge, that our literary tastes may change, expand, wither and die, our love ebbs and flows as if dictated by the waxing and waning of the moon; nothing lives forever. However, perhaps in the Museum Of Backward Hats it will take pride of place under the auspicious lights of an End Of Days is marked only with a smile, a sense of further adventure and one that the listener can depend on fully, and for as long as time persists.

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(372 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)