Category Archives: Music

Samantha Fish, Kill Or Be Kind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The world has you in its sights every day, the scope of your life is watched and noted down, any sign of vulnerability is used as an advantage over you and your time can be felt as if your spending is swimming against the tide. The expectation of conforming to a set of rules that never make sense is palpable and distracting; yet we still adhere to the idea of kill or cure, as if we are suffering from some insidious disease that requires treatment, that we suffer because we will not be compliant, instead preferring, quite rightly, to be rebellious.

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

Operation Lightfoot, Featuring Dorothy Bird, Trans-Siberian. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In a world not obsessed by gossip and the latest celebratory fashion, there are many artists who work quietly and with conscience in the seemingly dark background that would be seen for the absolute stars that they are, they would be taken on a journey around the lights of Piccadilly Circus or the incandescent displays of Broadway and Time Square instead of perhaps being seen on the billboards of the local train stations of Birmingham, calling at all stations between Stechford and Lee Green.

Operation Lightfoot, Featuring Dorothy Bird, Trans-Siberian. Single Review. full post

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

Kaiser Chiefs, Duck. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Duck and cover for the moment the insults hurl when you dare suggest that a premium British band’s latest work is not on the same scale that has once been; but in a world that sees offence as a right, occasionally you must withstand the silver bullet fired and be prepared to stand your ground. Duck perhaps, but not cover, for as long as the sentiment is true and not discourteous then ultimately what happens is that you hope the next album is a return to form, to be successful.

Kaiser Chiefs, Duck. Album Review. full post

(362 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

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.

Billy Price, Dog Eat Dog. Album Review. full post

(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.

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(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)