Category Archives: Music

Queensrÿche, The Verdict. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Verdict is yours, the conclusion of years of following a particular band or genre is at the end of it all, down to the listener and how they respond to the memories and how the artist has progressed, how the original shape has morphed and adapted to the changes to which Time throws out like a snare, a trap in to which to fall, or to avoid, either being a godsend, both being the point of experience, and one to which some bands are negligent of observing, one that  Queensryche across their own time have been successful of overpowering and conquering; albeit it to the cost of personnel and their once distinctive sound over the years.

Queensrÿche, The Verdict. Album Review. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Dream Theater, Distance Over Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are great swathes of people, billions across the world, who will look at a task or a project and then be put off by the time it takes to complete it. Time, they say, is too short to build a bridge across a raging river, and it will interfere with all I do, meaning that they just don’t recognise that by building the bridge, they don’t have to remain, glued to all that they ever knew, and will know.

Dream Theater, Distance Over Time. Album Review. full post

(483 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Made In Minsk, Where The Truth Lies. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Somewhere between certainty and propaganda is the realm Where The Truth Lies, a kingdom within a fiefdom, where publicity and exposure battle it out to the point of surrender and the score is never truly settled, not established with a firm hand; not unless you have a stamped set of scales proudly proclaiming the legend, Made In Minsk, emblazoned upon it.

Made In Minsk, Where The Truth Lies. Single Review. full post

(343 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Only Child, Emotional Geography. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

You may know where you are headed, the path that you have taken could be so well mapped that every detail of memory is overflowing with description, an endorsed narrative which is not ashamed of the lows but also is modest about the successes, every border etched and underlined, all places and achievements of interest highlighted.

Only Child, Emotional Geography. Album Review. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Rachael Jean Harris, Leaving Light. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Just by their very presence, some people display a brightness so illuminating that when they depart from your sight for a while, the darkness can feel consuming, it eats away at your soul because you understand exactly what they have bought to your life, through art, through the persistence of their ability and exceptional talent.

Rachael Jean Harris, Leaving Light. E.P. Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

The Specials, Encore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It might have come out the blue, in the eyes of the fans and the casual listener a return of a sound, the unexpected and impromptu, unassailable positive siren like melody that comes from the most feverish of expressions; out of the blue but tremendously welcome and yet arguably a sadness in that was thought diminished in the U.K., has become a battle ground to which The Specials have to stand their ground and open fire with scintillating progressive thought.

The Specials, Encore. Album Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Eabhal, This Is How The Ladies Dance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whichever way you choose to imagine your footsteps cavorting to the sound of music, whether it be in the realm of the Foxtrot, skipping the light fandango, the seeming purity of the ballet in Doc Martin boots or just even tapping along with your toes ever gesturing in the search for a partner to share the light with, mindful of the wallflower you have become, you can always be sure that your eyes will come across the pleasure of the well timed shuffle as you realise that This Is How The Ladies Dance.

Eabhal, This Is How The Ladies Dance. Album Review. full post

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

Two Black Sheep, The Earth Below. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We don’t know what goes on in The Earth Below, we all too often train our thoughts on the horizon or indeed towards the stars, so consumed are we by the world that we can see, that we forget there is a whole world that sings to us, hoping to catch our ear from deep in the soil, reminding us to reveal layer by layer what has been buried, not only in the ground, but in our souls and hearts.

Two Black Sheep, The Earth Below. Album Review. full post

(434 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Joshua Burnell, The Road To Horn Fair. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They urge you to take the road less travelled, that the one that everybody uses is worn out, the feet that scuff and kick up the dust because all and sundry have gone that way before and yet the one less explored can also seem stale, everybody knows it is there, you can see the edges of the overgrown bushes and the webs that have been weaved in comfort, undisturbed, busy, never ending. What is perhaps required is one which takes you to a place of magic, the approach to an open mind, to a parade of colour and a carnival of folk mystique, The Road To Horn Fair is one such walk of life to stroll smiling towards.

Joshua Burnell, The Road To Horn Fair. Album Review. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Emilie Khan, Outro. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There comes a time when we must move away from the childhood possessions and the thought of separation of voice and consequence as being two distinctive entities, we must do this in order to grow, to oblige the commitment shown to the series of assumptions and half formed ideas that we have had, and truly embrace the world with our own name and our own right of expression.

Emilie Khan, Outro. Album Review. full post

(418 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)