Category Archives: Music

Billy Price, Dog Eat Dog. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It’s a Dog Eat Dog world, or so the aggressive stance of some will have you believe. In truth we could find instead it is a more caring place than we understand, that the stories we tell are listened to with ease and interest, that art, no matter its form, is viable in equal measure and without competition.

It is in the harm caused by other people as they strive to be successful which sees the world turn, the art of the collaboration foaming at the mouth to be recognised, the muzzle straining as it keeps back the words of partnership and relationships; in the end we have become the pile in which others view the horizon from.

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(426 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Jason Robert, The Death Of Stone Stanley. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We don’t celebrate life in the way that it should be, by that virtue we look upon the loss of anyone with a mixture of regret, sadness, and sometimes the unfathomable, all the emotions brought on because we had no idea what the person who has left us was truly like.

Jason Robert, The Death Of Stone Stanley. Album Review. full post

(377 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Karen Marshalsay, The Road To Kennacraig. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10


The Road To Kennacraig is one that few will probably undertake, only perhaps the adventurous will see the possibilities that such an affair could produce, the sense of the windswept town joining in the ravishing sound created by the mysticism of the harp, one that the whisper of angels themselves would find hard to emulate.

However, if you should undertake the journey to Kennacraig, then in the company of one of the finest harpists in the world would surely make the adventure that much sweeter. For Karen Marshalsay, that expedition is one that gets deep into the traditional and the contemporary, one that is blessed to have all three Scottish harps centre stage and giving the acoustic lift that heightens the senses gloriously.

Karen Marshalsay, The Road To Kennacraig. Album Review. full post

(375 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Diana Rein, Queen Of My Castle. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We shouldn’t need affirmation for the choices and loves of our lives, however there will always be those waiting outside the fortress we have built for ourselves wanting to tear it down, angry at what they perceive to be aloofness, or worse, a measure of self-control to which they seek to destroy. We should always be ever vigilant against such people who wish to decry our efforts for peace in a world that wants to destroy; we should all be able to withstand other’s opinion and declare that we are the King and the Queen Of My Castle.

Diana Rein, Queen Of My Castle. Album Review. full post

(425 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Aidan O’ Rourke, 365: Volume 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Art is at its best when it inspires other artists as well as the general public to be greater than they thought they could be. A poem that stimulates the writer to take on the length of a novel, the painting that arouses the passion of the film maker, and the boldness of music which has caught the meaning and fire of the enthusiastic sculpture, all contain the seeking out of mystery and explaining in greater detail what the world can be.

Aidan O’ Rourke, 365: Volume 2. Album Review. full post

(477 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Riot V, Live In Japan 2018. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To be Live In Japan, it is an act of worship and homage to a land of intrigue, fascination and beauty that few of us will ever be able to achieve but then not all of us have pursued the idea of causing our lives to be a riot, to glimpse at the communication possible and demonstrate the rampage that good hard rock can bring to the world.

Riot V, Live In Japan 2018. Album Review. full post

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

The New Roses, Nothing But Wild. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nothing But Wild, it is the answer to how we should be living life, away from the safe, the sedate and the unflappably dull, we should be seeing life as a challenge to be conquered, no matter how limited our resources, how rationed our ability, we must embrace the way of the wolf and be prepared to let everyone know that we are there, our fur bristling in the glow of the moon and the natural urge to bring out the big howl of the melody always enthusiastically signalled.

The New Roses, Nothing But Wild. Album Review. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Real Authority, True Motion. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Punk was never meant to be seen as a gesture which would be looked back upon as a friendly wave of nostalgia, it was meant to terrify, to shake the rotten and self-centred to their core, and to signal a change in how we see the world, to open our eyes to the future and allow a sense of True Motion to begin.

Real Authority, True Motion. E.P. Review. full post

(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Arcadia Sun, Can You See Me Now. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As time passes, we are perhaps less inclined to constantly look for the new, always in favour of hanging on what makes us smile at certain memories, the echo of the new sound one that we cannot be blamed for trying to avoid. It is part of life; we refuse to acknowledge that anything can comfortably draw the same breadth of comparison as what we have built up in our minds as the epitome of our love.

Arcadia Sun, Can You See Me Now. Single Review. full post

(433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Reuben Archer With The Brand, Boneyard. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When the Personal Sin is over, all that remains is to be taken to the Boneyard to account for all you have done and rest assured that all you have done is beyond reproach; for Reuben Archer that thought is surely always there, for the sense of understanding that comes with always wanting to do more than what might be perceived as your best, to take the narrative one stage further and give life to a complete and rounded individual, is the point of searching for excellence that Reuben Archer insists upon.

Reuben Archer With The Brand, Boneyard. Album Review. full post

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