Category Archives: Music

Supersonic Blues Machine, Road Chronicles: Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The road calls, history’s future narrative is weaved between petrol pump and the climax of the end of night shadows in which the unsuspecting artist is greeted by the proof that their work moves souls and makes walls tremble in the anticipation of being laid waste.

Dog Bless You, Banksters. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The world doesn’t need satire, but it deserves it, and when the people are taken for a ride, when the greatest parody of all is the double talk of politicians and the rise of fear of losing it all to those with more money than sense, that is when satire comes along and grapples with the officers in charge of the ever diminishing cage.

Decay, Modern Conversations. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The bitterest pill we can swallow is the one when we realise that the discussion and exchange of hope we want to have with another human being is dominated either by aggression or by dismissal. One person’s reaching out and imploring is another’s chance to assert themselves to the point where hostility and conflict is inevitable. It is the contemporary way, we are fuelled by anger, disappointment and the prevailing winds of knowing each other’s business that we arguably feel as though we instinctively know better.

Greg Felden, Made Of Strings. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We take it for granted what it means to be human, so much so that we openly embrace suggestions by the well-meaning and the devious in equal measure that we search for improvement which betrays the basic, the rudimentary source of our D.N.A. that we are a thinking, reactive and complicated collection of emotions that at times needs to express itself, to feel the pain, the pressure and the beauty in our memories.

Jack Spann, Propaganda Man. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The world turns, occasionally it wobbles, and then when we are least expecting it, it lets loose a seismic shock which is hard to shake off. Instead of waiting in anticipation for the rumble of discontent to topple us off our feet, passing the time between the political upheaval and the next wave of spin and opinionated indoctrination, we should stand shoulder to shoulder ahead of time and greet the Propaganda Man with a ready answer, one that the savages of politics will not like.

Thunderfuck & The Deadly Romantics, Dirty Sleazy Rock ‘n’ Roll. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The ability to stand against the crowd and rage is not only underrated, it is a dying art form, one in which whilst we might disagree with the point of view of the hard stare and the two fingered salute, nevertheless makes us respect that person’s passion, and makes us believe that the all war on individuality and all forms of expressions is not won, not even convincingly.

HollowBone, Faith. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a vibe, that once heard, is difficult to dislodge, in fact, the moment it becomes part of you it gets to the point where it starts infusing itself, wrapping itself in the detail of your marrow, taking away what you once held as an enjoyment, and instead becoming a way of life.

From the scene at the now distant shore to the place in which the way of life is found to be tranquil, relaxed, a sincere type of energy captured in a realm of myths, magic and the undaunted peace of invention, HollowBone enter the fray of Cornish artistic endeavour and add to the creative flow and ingenuity to which the county is rightly famed.

Chris Rogers, Strange Things Happen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Strange Things Happen when we take a chance and listen to another’s point of view, the way we might even be willing to open our minds to a different belief, perhaps even embrace it and spread the word; it is always in the unexpected place and moment when such a revelation can occur, we just have to recognise its significance when it happens.

Vee VV, Payola. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No human being alive can lay claim to seeing the exact moment in which a star was born, we can imagine the fire, the explosion and the aftermath, but that spark, that singular new cosmic breath in which the bribe of the universe came to into being, no one can truly understand the awe in which such a twinkle of mischief resounds into a crescendo and cacophony of overwhelming universal dominance.

Belinda O’ Hooley, Inversions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Defiance can be viewed as a state of grace in a world that still, for the main, objects to non-conformity, the ability to be other than what a portion of society demands, craves as if hooked on an ideal that does not make sense, that is beyond any reason in today’s society. It is almost as we have clung on to the insanity that pervades the dogmatic Victorian era, a timespan etched into the annals of history, but which was truly a patriarchy hiding in plain sight of imagined petticoats and stern sour-faced mourning.