Category Archives: Music

Brittany Howard, Jaime. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When we remove ourselves from the position of strength and security, we learn a valuable lesson about being vulnerable in later life. We may have succeeded in taming the land around us once, we may have fought like tigers to gain the respect of others and be seen as a beacon of independent thought and muster but open the door to a new outlook and we become the nervous creatures that once drew arms against the frustration of others not taking our words seriously, we become new in the face of experience that History repeats itself for a reason.

Brittany Howard, Jaime. Album Review. full post

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

Amy Studt, Happiest Girl In The Universe. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We are not expected to make sense of this life, it is for the most part a seemingly random course of events that seems to leave us confused, often perplexed, and finding us with a series of concerns that makes us question what exactly is our role in our own existence. From the loneliest boy in the world to the Happiest Girl In The Universe, no matter who we are, we are fortunate if we find the meaning to life through self examination and reflection.

Amy Studt, Happiest Girl In The Universe. Album Review. full post

(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Darkness, Easter Is Cancelled. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Easter Is Cancelled, but the sweet delivery of the unexpected gift stays true in the heart at any time of the year.

There is always a surprise which comes from a band that you may well believe you know well but which at some time or another pull the exceptional out of the bag and give the audience the belief that they have heard the defining moment of the group’s career. Such a moment should not be unexpected, but it should be treated with reverence, with the kind of respect deserving one who has sensationally delivered above and beyond a piece of art which smiles.

The Darkness, Easter Is Cancelled. Album Review. full post

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

Bay City Rollers, Gold. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Today’s young music lovers, consumers and downloaders are besieged on all fronts by the restless chimes of beauty, the full package of what was just called the heartthrob and the sex symbol has now become a plethora of social media instant likes and little else; for some it could be argued that this current day situation of thumbs up and poses is a measure of style over substance, the scales weighted down in favour of the look of Bronze instead of the reality of polished Gold.

Bay City Rollers, Gold. Album Review. full post

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

Christine Smith, Meet Me On The Far side Of A Star. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A lit candle might not have the same impact on the heart of the shadows as a star but in the spark of intimacy it provides, the silhouettes seem to take on a deeper, romantic shade which captures the eye’s intensity. To be held though by the light of a star is to enjoy the celestial, the eternal, and whilst a candle speaks of privacy, of warmth between the playful and the coveted, to be invited by the words, Meet Me On The Far side Of A Star speaks into the forever and open expanse of universal understanding.

Christine Smith, Meet Me On The Far side Of A Star. Album Review. full post

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

Joe Bonamassa, Live At The Sydney Opera House. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Blues of Desperation never sounded so sweet as when played by a consummate master of the genre.

Much has been written over the last two decades about the New York born musician, so many gracious words, superlatives, sentences of content, that it could be reasoned by some that there might not be anything else that could be mentioned when it comes to the live performance of Joe Bonamassa. How little the words may be, but how powerful the music remains and as arguably the finest Blues guitarist to have strode the 21st Century so far proves in his first release of 2019, Live At The Sydney Opera House, that all the words in the world can never do justice, never truly capture, the work of one whose music is beyond reproach.

Joe Bonamassa, Live At The Sydney Opera House. Album Review. full post

(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Dime Box Band, Happy. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We strive for happiness, but we settle for contentment, even constant gratification, never realising that amongst it all, the rubble of the life we may have lived, or the punishment of our own self-denial, we can find happiness by capturing lightning in a jar, one self-made, one that holds the key to the simplest of smiles.

Dime Box Band, Happy. Album Review. full post

(388 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Keith James, Message From The Gods. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We may believe that we have come a long way since the days of receiving a Message From The Gods that will do our world endless good, we have moved away from the spiritual communication, instead relishing in the heart of a hastily written and scrawled memo; we have ignored the advice of poets and instead grasped at the hands of politicians who for the most parts follow their own ideals and whose only knowledge of the divine is the wine they taste and the champagne they waste.

Keith James, Message From The Gods. Album Review. full post

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

Nine Below Zero, Avalanche. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

An artist must capture what surrounds them, they must let the first drop of snow that touches their outstretched hands become the Avalanche that engulfs all their senses, their reason and their passion. No matter the temperature that others insist upon, their point of view of information overload, the cold air of realism is such that the environment is, if not forever changed, then at least altered and the scene amended.

Nine Below Zero, Avalanche. Album Review. full post

(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Vegan Leather, Poor Girls/Broken Boys. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is the sign of our times that the state of the world, the lack of hope, of trust and of desperation should place the vast majority of people into a pit of despair which is spiralling out of control.

The Vegan Leather, Poor Girls/Broken Boys. Album Review. full post

(449 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)