Category Archives: Music

Status Quo, Backbone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There is always a hole, that no matter how it is filled in, concreted over or even disguised, that retains memory, we cannot look at the space that has been occupied with genuine passion or need without ever remembering what was originally there.

Such is the fate of Status Quo’s latest album, Backbone, a loving reminder of what a set of songs from one of Britain’s finest, and much loved bands but one more than coloured in sadness and the feeling of the motion than in the pleasing urgency and centre stage exuberance than the fans, and even the general public, would be used to, or even arguably expect.

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(401 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Danny Bryant, Means Of Escape. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Wearing your heart upon your sleeve could lead to you being seen as a target for the kind of people who enjoy the art of self-sacrifice, the ones that find ways to continue the suffering of those who seek enlightenment, reflection, self-determination as they evolve and grow into the realm of the spectacular and driven. However, those that have the confidence to openly declare their feelings, who never betray for a single minute their emotions and sentiments, are richly rewarded with the art of the world and the Means Of Escape that their belief holds dear.

Danny Bryant, Means Of Escape. Album Review. full post

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

Become The Sky, Aurora. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We watch the seed germinate with a sense of awe and admiration for the natural order, the cycle of birth and growth, and yet we arguably forget about the instance in which the seed was planted, what it took for the initial stream of thought which cried out to be heeded, that we should reach out beyond the violent skies that surround us and touch instead a sense of gratifying eternity and once held ghosts of the solar lights.

Become The Sky, Aurora. E.P. Review. full post

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

Jake Aaron, Fag Ash And Beer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The idea that creativity can endure in a stark environment is one that is surely out of synch with reality, at best the sterile thoughts of pursuit are hokum, at worst it has all the hall marks of the barren mind making excuses not to have lived the life they talk of.

Jake Aaron, Fag Ash And Beer. Album Review. full post

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

Velvet & Stone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The dynamic of the forever shifting and evolving natural scene is one that we seem to have developed a complex relationship with, far removed from a time when we found ourselves enhanced by nature, by the rugged moors and the quiet dignity of large forests and the sound of the sea as it bears down upon welcoming shores; instead we have found solace in the concrete and the unchangeable, the rigid and the unyielding.

Velvet & Stone. Album Review. full post

(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Native Harrow, Happier Now. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We look for reasons to be happy, constantly spending thousands in the pursuit of contentment, the plastic smile and the state of bliss that we believe we are owed for simply existing, the narrow perimeter we set ourselves is defined by that in which we think we see grace, never mind the problems of the world, all that can be fixed once we have bought happiness for ourselves.

Native Harrow, Happier Now. Album Review. full post

(434 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Saskia Griffiths-Moore, Baez, Dylan & Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The events and songs of a past generation still play with our minds because of the searing ripples they made on the water of life at the time, and if you have to live through the age of interesting times, then to take solace in the moments between each ripple is not only a must, it is the only positive thing you can do that does not involve revolution.

Saskia Griffiths-Moore, Baez, Dylan & Me. Album Review. full post

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

North Line, The Town That’s Falling Down. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are in danger of becoming used to the idea of unwarranted change, the effect of constant rebuilding which only serves to alter the dynamic in which a settlement of size has built up; this disturbance may go unnoticed by many, but for those who see beyond the grain of intuition, it can be said that they are aware of the problem, the analogy that hits home with the personal belief that the city is a sacred beast, soon proves to be its own ruin, that The Town That’s Falling Down is not just the one we live in, but the one that inhabits our soul.

North Line, The Town That’s Falling Down. Single Review. full post

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

Boo Hewerdine, Before. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The setting and the mood are fundamental for art to thrive, the sterile and the beige is of little importance, but the drama of the unexpected, the reflection of the human experience, that is what brings any art to life. The after image of what went Before is crucial, the agility of the artist to focus on the minimal rather than the explosive, critical; and through such passionate intricacy the listener is introduced to the seismic silence that sweeps them off their feet.

Boo Hewerdine, Before. Album Review. full post

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

Dead Shed Jokers, All The Seasons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We surely must look to the women and men to whom light shines on for All The Seasons, for in them we witness our own possible reflections, and to misquote Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons, “Their taste in the pursuit of truth is excellent, it exactly coincides with my own!”

Dead Shed Jokers, All The Seasons. Album Review. full post

(395 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)