Category Archives: Music

No Hot Ashes, Hardship Starship. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

When the day comes that off world intelligent life decides it is worth the risk to land on Earth, it will probably be because they will have worked out that humanity has, in the words of Roger Waters, amused itself to death. There will be no scorched Earth policy, no subjugation of the masses, No Hot Ashes or remains in which to pour a silent thought, and perhaps tear, for those who tried to warn others of the impending doom; just the collected rubbish, the flotsam and jetsam of a once proclaimed civilisation.

No Hot Ashes, Hardship Starship. Album Review. full post

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

Otto & The Elevators. Album Review. (Re-issue).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time moves on, whether we are here to witness it or not. For some Time flows ever onwards, seamless, sedate, continually alluding to motion sickness, the feeling that we are not in control of life, but instead that Time rules against us, the passage of experience lost in the haze and the memories that begin to fade.

Otto & The Elevators. Album Review. (Re-issue). full post

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

Ghalia, Mississippi Blend. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is an undoubted sense of fascination that is attached to the Mississippi that few other mighty rivers can ever hope to attain, the perception of history it carries, both for ill and for the hope it may have once inspired. The blend of endless creative invention, the necessity in which it has thrived, the blues, the rock and the voices it has carried. Such is the privilege of the Muse that it has been blessed to offer thought on a musician who digs deep into the psyche and their talent; such is the honour that Ghalia offers in her brand new album, Mississippi Blend.

Ghalia, Mississippi Blend. Album Review. full post

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

Flight Brigade, Chased By Wolves. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The children of the night who serve the ideal that the journey is an adventure, no matter where it leads you, always seem to create the best music, as if they not only place themselves in the company of spirits and the bounty of storytellers who see the beauty and strength that comes from being Chased By Wolves and the sensual application of imagination.

Flight Brigade, Chased By Wolves. Album Review. full post

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

Piston. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If the landscape and vision before you isn’t thrilling enough and making your heart beat faster, then move on, there is no law that states you have to be the same person that you were 12 months ago, there is no commandment that dictates you have to lead with your initial thought; indeed it is with an act of maturity and responsibility that your first read through ends up being the canvas for a piece of art of greater significance.

Piston. Album Review. full post

(411 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Runrig, The Last Dance-Farewell Concert. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In politics they say that history is written by the winners, however, in art, winners know when it is time to say goodbye to the form to which they have dedicated a substantial part of their lives to and unarguably been the leading stars of their chosen field; winners can be replaced, artists become eternal triumphs!

Runrig, The Last Dance-Farewell Concert. Album Review. full post

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

Slipknot, We Are Not Your Kind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

They say choose a side but sometimes the side they want you select is wrong, your gut tells you so, your brain agrees and so you can only line up with those who are frowned upon by certain sections of society, place two fingers up to derision and the raised eyebrow of hate and sit back comfortably in the knowledge that might is a dead concept, what matters is what is right in your heart, that you can say proudly, We Are Not Your Kind.

Slipknot, We Are Not Your Kind. Album Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Rod Melancon, Pinkville. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have become used to the bombardment of consistent cinematic heroes that we have forgotten what it meant to see a classic derived from the counter culture era, the type of which the anti-hero would step forth and take on our persona, in which the devilish grin would appear and find a way to morph into the face of Jack Nicholson, the smell of certain substances would pervade the watcher’s nostrils and the diffuse the expectations of the forewarned social norm.

Rod Melancon, Pinkville. Album Review. full post

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

Calum Gilligan, Maybe Half A Lifetime. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Times change, the circle of life continues onto whatever path fate may have decreed, and which we can either negotiate a more fruitful path, or we can go along with the events strewn in our way. Maybe Half A Lifetime ago life was easier to navigate, maybe the songs had the softer edge of innocence attached to them, but we have chosen a path to which the signs point to a place in which none of us, bar the egotistical and masters of the sleight of hand, truly want to go.

Calum Gilligan, Maybe Half A Lifetime. E.P. Review. full post

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

Helloween, Pumpkins United. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always a feel good factor that resides deep in the heart of Germany’s Godfathers of Metal, Helloween, that emulates the way the North American stalwarts and British pioneers of N.W.O.B.H.M to such an extent that when the songs of their back catalogue are unleashed, the sound created is one that cannot, must surely not, be ignored.

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(363 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)