Category Archives: Music

Sunjay, Devil Came Calling. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When the Devil Came Calling is when perhaps you should have paid more attention. For some the celestial siren plea is not enough to bring on the sweat of inspiration, it takes a deeper growl in which to stir the human body to find the place where their perception of artistry is at its most beautiful, scintillating and achingly sublime. For Robert Johnson it was the apparent meeting on a crossroads, for many an artist it is perhaps a reflection of what the muse can lead them to in terms of obsession, of the darker side of their personality; sometimes we need to listen to the voice that offers a moment of explosive excellence in return for a little piece of our soul.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Slowness, Berths. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The release is slow, dreamlike, a vision that unfolds via the slightest of twists to the barrel of the kaleidoscope, the pattern emerging, disappearing, reforming with an innovative subtly. To find such an arrangement is always possible in art, but to come across it, to find the beauty in the female harmony as each note drips with the sentiment of colour, of a psychedelic waterfall crashing onto the rocks below and splintering rainbows decorating the remains, that is the revelation which makes the purpose of life one of a vast array of possibilities which must be grasped.

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(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

We Melt Chocolate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The language of romance, it is ultimately one that can send a shiver down the spine and a thrill through the heart is conducted with passion and mystery.

The feeling of being swept of your feet, or even teased like the light touch of a wicked bow on a taut string, is forever hanging in the air and like the operatic gala to which Florence once gave the world, so too does the silver tongued refrain in which the art of the shoe-gazing genre plough its love into the hearts of those who listen intently to the sound provided by a band that can justify pronounce that We Melt Chocolate, and the those who see temptation in this act are not wrong, for the Florence-based band We Melt Chocolate speak the language of enigmatic love.

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

Lauren Anderson, I Won’t Stay Down. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The empty promise is one that is hard to shake off. The desire in the hero of the story is often tempered by those around them who refuse to see their worth, or worse use them for their own advantage, reneging on assurances, pledges of fidelity scattered to the winds, it can become a dispiriting affair, a knock on effect that falls like dominos, but each one when turned face up revealing the double blank expression that leads ultimately to a dead-end.

Lauren Anderson, I Won’t Stay Down. E.P. Review. full post

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

Gov’t Mule, Bring On The Music- Live At The Capitol Theatre. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Recorded over two special nights in April 2018, titans of the genre Gov’t Mule took to stage of New York’s Port Chester and proceeded to give what can only arguably be described as one of the most perfectly driven live performances captured; not for nothing do they Bring On The Music but they also extol the virtue of persistence, of  the resolve to not play the game that the Government asks of all. Blind obedience is a terror, to be free is be the real you, on stage or travelling from city to city, bar to bar, all you can do is put a quarter in the machine and tell the suits and the suspicious minded to Bring On The Music and dance to your tune.

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(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Valley Queen, Supergiant. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Universe may look tranquil, a perfect heartbeat capturing the pulse of the celestial band as they play for the fortunes of the mortals and creatures that scurry underneath stars and distant shadows; but there is always that beast that comes out of nowhere, the truth that is ready to be revealed in the form of a Supergiant, the object that takes up all of your vision and which is both to be feared and marvelled at in equal, stunning measure.

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

Jude Adams, The Window To My Soul. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The eye is the window in which we look into when we wish to see into someone’s soul, or so some would insist on being the only mantra worth following, however perhaps it is not that clear, not that obvious, perhaps it comes down to the voice, the sound which we make when all is well, the concern others take notice of when the world is not at peace with our presence; the eye in the end can be made to look glamorous when all around is fading out of the light , the voice though, even when it has little to say, can still sing of harmony and be a beacon to others that your soul is overflowing.

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(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Deep Dark River, King Of The Forest. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

An album that resonates in the part of the mind that deals with dreams, imagination and the race memory of what it was once to acknowledge the fables of our land, the legends and myths that come swarming out of the dense mist and catch hold of our words as they attempt to leave our cold mouths, is by its very nature one in which insists upon being taken seriously.

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

American Glutton, Fruit Will Rot. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The fruit itself never falls far from the tree, but the way we seek to exploit it, too many mouths all grasping for the same taste of sweetness, explains why we have come so close to ruining the future generations chances of entertaining the dreams of seeking purpose other than to attempt to repair the damage inflicted on the world, on humanity.

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(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Dorothy Bird, Under Water. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are those fortunate souls to whom the world is a playground of aural stimulation, they are able to hear in the ether a sound denied to others, perhaps intentionally, for surely we are the conduits of our own reception, our internal antennas designed to pick up a signal which will be understood to either mean something personal or be used creatively to inspire others.

Dorothy Bird, Under Water. Single Review. full post

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