Category Archives: Music

Christina Larocca, These Are My Whiskey Dreams. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are actively urged to change the world and yet how many of us find the direction in which to pursue these goals, to keep on the straight line and absorb the bumps in the road that have been placed to throw us off course; it is enough to make us throw away the keys to our own success, ditch the vehicle we are driving and head on into the bar of existence and breathe in the fumes of our neighbours favourite dram.

Hollis Brown, Ozone Park. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When you are asked to look across the Atlantic and implored to describe what you might find, you would not be blamed or judged for thinking in terms of New York City, specifically the Island of Manhattan and whilst the towers gleam, the streets bustle with excitement and seemingly to the ghostly tunes of old style Jazz and Blues and the enticing face of Capitalism, it lures you in and then spits you out onto the streets, there is far more to the greater area that surrounds 42 Street, that looks across to the symbol of French platitudes and shines a beacon to the world.

John Cee Stannard Blues Orchestra, The Doob Doo Album. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What you create today is by no means the final moment into which you will inspire somebody, even if it yourself somewhere down the line, where you stop to take in the possible reflected glory of your pain-staking effort, and realise that at some pint along the path there is a moment in which you can revisit, in which the foundations you once laid down with bare knuckles and hopeful design, can still serve as a resolution to continue striving for excellence.

Daria Kulesh, Earthly Delights. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We look upon this world as if we are but spoilt children, the only amusement we find is that in which others give us when we demand, the only appreciation gained is when we regret that it has been taken away from us, and then with petulance we kick and scream our displeasure, we become spiteful and then as a final act we begin to steal what is not ours and hold it for ransom, the highest bidder gaining ground, the Earthly Delights not realised.

John Cee Stannard, Moving On. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Moving On is not a sign of resignation, the shrugged shoulders epitomising defeat and the slow trudge away from the company you have once kept, it is rather a point of understanding that what has once been and which has helped you scale certain heights, is now just a stepping stone to another adventure, the next beat to which you must follow and into which creativity and life urges you to behold.

Captain Of The Lost Waves, Synthesis-The Story So Far. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The way we consume music now is unarguably different to 20 years ago, even during the golden years of the singles charts being taken seriously as a measure of how the nation reacted to the aural stimulation provided by the imagination and creativity of its heroes and the unknown warriors fighting for a moment in the sun, what we now find is that the single is perhaps lost in the maelstrom of continual listening, it is the instant hit on the senses and without the same sensation on the fan’s anticipation as it once was.

Elijah James & The Nightmares, I Hate It Here, But You Are Here, And I Love You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To understand that the way you perceive a moment in time or a place can be altered by the presence of a certain individual is arguably the point of identifying your stance in faith and in love, of stepping over the boundary between selfish observation and openness, of single martyrdom and petulant irritability and that of composure and assurance. It is in the mark of maturity that we seek to embrace serenity in the midst of chaos and revulsion, that we accept that whilst we maybe disgusted by our surroundings we can openly say that I Hate It Here, But You Are Here, And I Love You.

Captain Of The Lost Waves, Hidden Gems-Chapter 2: Circus Of Morality. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The hedonistic aroma of flamboyance and the fragrance of honest sawdust fills the surrounding air as you sit and reflect upon the grand treasure chest that has been opened with an enjoyable sweep of the arm and a gesture that pronounces with fervour that the parade continues, that in this second chapter of Hidden Gems, the Circus of Morality is one that truly lives up to its predecessor and deserves the big top moment to which it has been created for.

JOANovArc. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is more to life than the tales of men who have taken on dragons and quaffed in celebration, the regale of the story from manhood to which we openly admire even if we don’t question the single avenue of information to which we are being drawn; not every story, not every observation, has to be from the man’s point of view, quite rightly and with passion, women should raise the bar and show the world the fire, the warrior soul and the story teller, the mould in which the pious young French girl inspired an army with.

Savoy Brown, City Night. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To hold danger within your grasp and sniff the darkness as it settles around you, invading your sense of self as it clutches at the significance of metropolis, the noir and the steady beat which makes the City Night one of the more alluring and vulnerable aspects of living; to be immersed and aloft by the neon light as bars sing with the sound of sirens pulling in their clientele and steady stream of soft serenaded menace is to know that you are alive.