Category Archives: Music

Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess, Gold Has Worn Away. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are those who will tell it, supposedly, like it is and there are those who will show you the error of your ways. The former will do so with punishment, they will feed off the energy like locusts on a corn field and leave the recipient exhausted, drained, distressed and troubled, and all because they have offered no real possibility of change, instead they have set the subject of their scorn back physically and mentally.

Norman Mackay, The Inventor. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Necessity may have a hand in the creation, but it is to the dreamer who deserves the accolade of being thought of as The Inventor, the creator of the moment which can turn a heart, which can give a person hope. To dream is to discover, to act upon it is to acknowledge imagination as a driving force to which we, as a species, can implement absolute, and positive change.

The Little Unsaid, Music/Nature. E.P Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How much of life is ruled by nature and nurture, an age-old question to which there seems to be no defining answer, at least not one that ever satisfies those who seek to interrogate life with. However, whether it is nature or nurture that makes you act a certain way, sees you place your being in a direction that others might seem inappropriate or even not accepting their own view, what is surely not up for debate is the role that music plays in the foundation of your soul.

Atlantaeum Flood, One Day. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What does One Day mean to you? Without doubt we are guilty of not always making the most of the time available to us, the twenty-four precious hours in which we while away time and find to our cost that between the raindrops and the moments of sunshine, we did nothing to enhance the fact that we were here, that we are as lost to the minutes as we are the years in which we breathe, in which we exist in.

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.