Category Archives: Music

Idlewild, Interview Music. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 8.5/10

In the end it comes to more than just emotion, be it raw, unfiltered and tender, to carry the sense of the powerful into the hearts of all who may hear the rallying cry set down by artists of all persuasions. More than emotion, more than just the ability to give the audience hope, it is has to find a way into the soul and sting, like the comfort afforded by the realisation that the person you might have called friend turns out to be someone to avoid, at least you understand the lesson that has been learned when conversation turns against you.

Idlewild, Interview Music. Album Review. full post

(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Siren’s Song, Without The Fear. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

To live Without The Fear one must surely have confronted the demons in the mind and found them to be lacking substance, to have laughed at the inconsequential and witnessed fear shrink and become nothing more than a nuisance to be scolded in much the same way that we hold the same measure of account and disdain to ignorance. These twin monsters, if left unchecked, sap at the strength and will, and then as the Siren’s Song is enticingly heard and grasped for in an effort to be saved, fear can be seen to become overwhelming and bitter.

Siren’s Song, Without The Fear. Single Review. full post

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

Locate Your Lips, For Kenny. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be born in anger is to find that the universe in its infinite wisdom has something truly special waiting up its sleeve for you, to be remembered when the anger has left to be replaced by calm, by the spirit of the times, and if placed in the hands of those who remember your brilliance after you have left for the bigger stages to come, will shout your name from the highest vantage point and demand that the party be continued in your honour.

Locate Your Lips, For Kenny. Album Review. full post

(554 words, 1 image, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Bohemea, Septimus. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 8.5/10

A sudden musical blast that you were not expecting can be as exciting to rally around as that which you have been eagerly anticipating for a year, like a tornado ripping through your soul, or an avalanche seen from the safety of nearby mountain, you can only take in the majesty of the force of nature as she sweeps all before it, as she lays in wait to catch you unawares and leave you marvellously breathless.

Bohemea, Septimus. Single Review. full post

(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Sleeper, The Modern Age. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It could be argued that for many of us The Modern Age is not what we thought it was going to be but then with hindsight and given our past, what else could it be but one in which the urge to rebel, to create havoc and roar as if cornered by some disease of will that has seen us sleep-walk into an era that is only a short step away from being a dystopian novel writer’s fantasy creation. It could have all been so different but then would that have brought back from the depths of the never again promise that 90s Brit Pop favourites, Sleeper insisted upon.

Sleeper, The Modern Age. Album Review. full post

(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Fontaines D.C., Dogrel. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The truth is slowly being erased in the name of progress’ elitist sibling, gentrification, everywhere you look there is the eradication of what makes a city or a town hum with excitement, with the friction of what is real and what sticks out like a sore thumb in the face of modern and the beige. Yet despite the feeling of up to date dogma and glistening glass that shrouds us all into being consumers of the unwanted, there is still the Dogrel of those who refuse banality and same safe thoughts of not standing out, the voice of those who perhaps read Joyce’s Dubliners and revelled in the early punk ethic captured by The Boomtown Rats and who now commit to keeping a certain culture alive and beating hard.

Fontaines D.C., Dogrel. Album Review. full post

(461 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Sarah-Jane Summers, Owerset. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To those that don’t understand the concept, the words of the free-thinking person are incomprehensible, strange, even bordering on the dangerous and threatening. The strangeness of the words, the very ideas, they act as if they were bonded in treachery, the straight-jacketed observance hearing only betrayal to the hive mind, the mantra that is constant being questioned; it is no wonder artists of all persuasions are adored but also feared, loved for the sweet release they offer for a while, afraid in some quarters because of the questioning hope they insist on releasing is not easy to translate.

Sarah-Jane Summers, Owerset. Album Review. full post

(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Jesse Mac Cormack, Now. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Shining a light through a prism and seeing the array of colours may be a dominate reminder of glories past, of the upheld reflection in which certain Progressive moods were initially formed and which have always been at the undercurrent of many a music fans way of thinking; but a prism can allude to more than just Time and light being slowed down and marvelled at, it is the refraction which illuminates in the Now and one that marvels at the luminosity caught, that is meticulous and filled with beauty.

Jesse Mac Cormack, Now. Album Review. full post

(395 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Stick In The Wheel Present, From Here: English Folk Field Recordings Volume 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What does it mean in these days of the divided nation that we can find hopeful common ground, that we might be able to travel across the country and find hope in what the words From Here might mean, a loaded question perhaps but one that is found to be full of conversation, of a meaning that some might understand if they travelled beyond the end of their roads and narrow minded cul-de-sacs.

Stick In The Wheel Present, From Here: English Folk Field Recordings Volume 2. Album Review. full post

(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Odette Michell, The Wildest Rose. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vison Rating * * * *

In the cultivated lawns and gardens that surround many a stately home, or even in the hard-earned and worked back yards of many a town’s terraced houses up and down the country, the sight of a well-kept lawn is perhaps a singular pleasure that is hard to replicate, the perfect haphazard inspired rockery, an allotment that produces a household’s requirements rather than giving in to the superficiality of giving in to the large, uncaring supermarkets, all that comes with this air of order is the gratification one receives from seeing The Wildest Rose take root and flower, blossom above all else that may sit and stare at the sun for warmth and growth.

Odette Michell, The Wildest Rose. Album Review. full post

(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)