Category Archives: Music

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.