Category Archives: Music

Ozzy Osbourne, Under The Graveyard. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What stirs Under The Graveyard is one of the endless possibility of renewal, not one of decay or sadness, the hand wringing for the dearly departed but instead a time in which the bells that toll in the church to sound out the glory of the immortal soul, the artist that never wants to lay down and despite being plagued by problems that floor a lesser person, still manages to drag their body through it all and give the audience yet another reason to sing their name as if venerating themselves before the alter of hope.

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(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Sepultura, Isolation. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Isolation has its privileges, you are kept away from the distractions that plague the creative mind, you open yourself up to new ideas that float in the breeze like a butterfly caught in an updraft and you can see the world as if it is one you have carved out of stone. However, it is also one that has its own pitfalls, its own issues of separation, of quarantine from the masses and the ones who care about you and in the end becomes a fine line between existing and the power you have absorbed by being yourself.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Barry Briercliffe, Lie Back And Think Of England. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating 9/10

 

Lie Back And Think Of England, think of all the country has aspired to be, the good it has done, the accountable hardship and desecration it has poured on others, how would your montage be perceived, how would your vision of the country appear.

Think of England, think of Britain, especially when it comes to the arts, the voices that have shaped, the expressions that have given rise to hope, the declarations that have created hope and it is in the music of the mighty, the ones with a glint in their eye and a purpose to provide that hope that stands out.

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(379 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, I’m Almost Over You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are the degrees of love in which a person rises high, in which they become the obsession, the eternal Muse, then there are the fallen, the ones we look upon with disdain, with displeasure, with the face of being damned firmly etched upon our faces; between these two states of emotion we lay content, our determination of appreciation and the fallow slide of neglect a true reflection of our feelings.

John Jenkins, I’m Almost Over You. Single Review. full post

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

Thom Morecroft, The Feng Shui And The Sushi. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Everything in its place and delivered with such raw spirit, Thom Morecroft is an undeniable barometer of good music and introspective lyrics that highlight both his musical taste and the way he knits together certain textures and meanings together to bring a down to earth response and open mind view to any situation he wishes to cover in his songs, even the ones that are the most personal, the most delicate which shows the wounds he carries with honour.

Thom Morecroft, The Feng Shui And The Sushi. Album Review. full post

(413 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Emilio Pinchi, Absentee E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Once you are done with your holiday and you are not ready to return to the humdrum of the 9 to 5 and politics of life, the only logical course of action is to see the blank space on the register as the prime source of satisfaction, that of the Absentee, the one who sees past the indoctrination of the imagined lesson, and who seizes the opportunity to deliver their own judgment, their true thoughts on the art of being missed.

Emilio Pinchi, Absentee E.P. E.P. Review. full post

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

Gazel, Gazel’s Book Of Souls. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The souls we meet upon the way are those that inform, guide, and possibly even love us; however there are those that are not destined to be seen in the light, only to be shrouded in darkness, it is up to our own individual senses to decipher the mystery of the various chapters, the words of the living, that make up the Book Of Souls.

Gazel, Gazel’s Book Of Souls. Album Review. full post

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

Vetiver, Up On High. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Serenity and peace is a feeling denied so many, even those touched by the sense of composed calm are usually blessed with just the barest mention in their lives, the look to the Heavens, to see Up On High and reflect in a measure of stillness, that is the pleasure it seems reserved only for Gods, The Silent and The Muse.

Vetiver, Up On High. Album Review. full post

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

Otherwise, Defy. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


To kick down the door with insubordination, to shoulder the courage of rebellion and go out with all thoughts of making the world a place in which all can live in the comfort of their own skin and to take down the brutality of the charmless. To fight back against the insincere, that it is beauty that shines in the heart of all when they learn openly the act of defiance, the perfection of being able to openly Defy the orders of the inept and the rhetoric of the unwelcome.

Otherwise, Defy. Album Review. full post

(464 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Aetherna, Darkness Land. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We don’t need to enter the great works of fiction and musical fantasy to find that the modern world is one in which the land is fractured, the place where evil and light do constant battle, Queen spoke of the Ogre Battles and the dominion of the Black Queen, Tolkien opened the eyes of millions to Mordor, and yet for Italian Metal Band Aetherna the imagery is subtler, refined, an memory of ache and the concern for the future of our own take on reality; the Gothic/Hard Metal touch of Darkness Land is all consuming.

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