Category Archives: Music

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.

Aetherna, Darkness Land. Album Review. full post

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

Dorothy Bird, Forgot. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The start to the Yuletide festivities always seems to appear out of thin air, and all too soon, we are surprised by its return as if we have navigated the year and then Forgot what the end of autumn actually means to the multitude, the sense of hopeful good will, the sound of constant music adding to the excitement. It is that the beautiful and reliable song is a must, regardless of the sentiment, whether or not it fits in with your vision of the time of year, it’s over riding message must be on of peaceful charm and the asking of human understanding.

Dorothy Bird, Forgot. Single Review. full post

(325 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Adrian Henri/ Statue At The Pier. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You can write as much as you want about the world, but if you cannot describe your own backyard and make people visualise every crack in the stone work, every weed doing its damnedest to poke its head up through the drains that run underneath, then perhaps the world that you believe is your oyster doesn’t deserve your casual eye cast over it.

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Adrian Henri/ Statue At The Pier. Single Review. full post

(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

The Twang, If Confronted Just Go Mad. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Change is inevitable, to hold on to the once stated as if it was written in stone, a mantra that ties the future and the past together like conjoined twins pulling against each other’s wishes in a symbiotic tug of war, that way lays insanity, it is to deny freedom of expression, it is to stand in the way of progress.

The Twang, If Confronted Just Go Mad. Album Review. full post

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

Shed Seven, Going For Gold. Deluxe Vinyl Re-Issue. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The love of vinyl knows no bounds. The one-time message from the so thought of great and good that vinyl was a dying, cumbersome beast, has in fact turned out to be the worst kind of propaganda to have sullied the listening public’s appetite for searching out music history. Instead of being drawn into the fast-consuming affair to which compact discs and then downloads afforded the listener into consuming music at the touch of a button, vinyl was, and remains an experience to which overrides the immediate and asks only for care and attention.

Shed Seven, Going For Gold. Deluxe Vinyl Re-Issue. Album Review. full post

(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Ringo Starr, What’s My Name. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

When everybody knows who you are it can be forgivable to question your own image of yourself, after all, we live in a world in which our online presence is deemed sacrosanct and can be embellished to show the happy side of life at all times, whilst our real life experiences are questioned and invariably sneered at, the watchful eye of others ready to step in and bring you down with a jolt just for questioning life and getting you to admit that you feel lost, that you are looking for meaning, and that you may have to ask, What’s My Name.

Ringo Starr, What’s My Name. Album Review. full post

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

Mike Zito And Friends, Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To capture the heat, energy and sublime talent of a legend, one must surely believe that they are not just merely copying the master but can enhance it, that they can place their own name into the same written and verbal sentence with humility, but also with an eye of purpose which shows their adept skill at performance.

Mike Zito And Friends, Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry. Album Review. full post

(504 words, 1 image, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

The Herron Brothers, The Next Ones. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Next Ones, the sound of the ominous demand from the waiting room, or the request of the highly regarded duo Paul and Steve Herron as they unleash four new songs on the public with the song of sincerity, passion and belief all leaving their trademark appeal to enjoy.

The Herron Brothers, The Next Ones. E.P. Review. full post

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

Sinner, Santa Muerte. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The genre of Metal just keeps giving, it may have found places in which its heavy, breathless, scything down of others around it could not penetrate but still it roams wonderfully unrepentant, alive, cynical but also punctual, the living endorsement of the relationship that goes hand in hand with the kind of beauty that those who choose to dance with are always welcome to enjoy.

Sinner, Santa Muerte. Album Review. full post

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

Whitesnake, Slip Of The Tongue. 30th Anniversary Remaster. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The past may be a foreign country, but that does not mean you shouldn’t visit it every now and then to re-evaluate the effect it has had on your present day mood or appreciations; if we left everything only to the ears of audio archaeologists then all our discoveries, all our loves, and sometimes aversions, are only to be interpreted by the sales and the critics words at the time.

Whitesnake, Slip Of The Tongue. 30th Anniversary Remaster. Album Review. full post

(568 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)