Category Archives: Music

Kim Richards, Leaves That Fly. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We will crane our necks and look skyward with interest when a plane flies overhead, our imaginations, perhaps our in-built jealousies, will take over and wonder what it is like at that moment, to be so high, to witness the world changing rapidly from land to sailing the skies over vast oceans, and where those people are going to, what interesting events they will be part of, far from this distant shore. We will do this automatically and without concern, the moment fleeting and until the next plane goes over our heads, we will just lose interest in what takes to the air.

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(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Vishten, Horizons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 7.5/10

What we envisage, what we dream of, is quite often so far hidden in the Horizons that we can barely see it as our own truth, it is covered only in a glorious tempting haze and one that is for the vast majority of time, forever out of reach. It is the act of forever hope that we that we keep striding towards, that we reach out to because we are cursed with both reason and imagination and one that is starkly shown as the plucked flower of memory when we succeed or fall in our attempt to go beyond the prospect to which our life was set.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Lau, Midnight And Closedown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

The world has taken a strange turning, instead of being ready to guard against the sense of the insidious and the pathetic, it seems many are willing to embrace the concept of self-serving individualism, a spectre of another time when to speak your mind in one direction was met with the utmost evil of retributions.

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

Blood Red Shoes, Get Tragic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The tragedy of life is that for the most part we are only ever existing, we are never actively participating, comfortable in our routines, happy in the predictability, almost habit formed state of being in which have driven in and parked. At some point we find ourselves refusing to believe that the once blameless searching for excitement and even tension filled groove could instead lead to inertia, into the bowels of static apathy.

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

Carson McHone, Carousel. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There will always be those that assume with absolute certainty that to display melancholy is an abhorrence, they see it as willingness to wallow in the self-pity or the act of misery, they will openly declare war on you and leave messages condemning you for the dejection and unhappiness they perceive you spread with inner glee. There will always be those people, the best thing to do is ignore them, for melancholy is not a state of downhearted gloom, just perhaps a realisation that at times you need to reflect on what bought you to this point in time and the regret of all you could have done.

Carson McHone, Carousel. Album Review. full post

(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Liminanas, I’ve Got Trouble In Mind Vol 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


The world is obsessed with the idea of new, not fresh, not innovative, not original, just new. New is the catch-all modern step over the boundary, it implies edginess, when all that is being adorned is shock value, it suggests a tense unease at the revolution to come, yet the same colours are always to be seen flying from the mast at the break of day and at sunset. It feels as if it should agitate and stir things up, an insurrection in the novel, and yet new in this world is concerned with rampant commercialism and is only really a different package to sell the same thing you have had in your hands for the whole of your life.

The Liminanas, I’ve Got Trouble In Mind Vol 2. Album Review. full post

(394 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Holiday Gunfire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Only the more seasoned music lovers will truly remember the sheer exuberance the body and soul felt when they first came across seminal British band The Who, those of us who came to hear and love the foursome afterwards, perhaps what may be considered long after the fact can only guess, hopefully perceive, what it meant to have such a group join the ranks of 60s British luminaries as The Beatles, The Kinks, The Small Faces and The Rolling Stones.

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

The Brother’s Gillespie, The Fell. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Close siblings with the same measured response to nature and art just seem to ally themselves perfectly to the sense of harmony that is sought after by all; whether it is the fields, the woods or within the reach of an open window as the countryside calls out to humanity to care for the environment, harmony is what we seek, and if it comes in the form of two human beings making music and the purity of vocal then that is the start of something beautiful.

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(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Trapper Schoepp, Primetime Illusion. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The best of art arguably comes out of despair, damage or dysfunction, the most memorable of music is born in a place of darkness and heartfelt.  The open-eyed realisation that what was once a beautiful paradise is now a place in which distress grows, only alleviated in its promise to pull you under by the sound which captures the imagination and shows both the artist and the listener that there is light that can be seen to pulse wildly out of the sinister and sombre thoughts.

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(420 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Magnum: Live At The Symphony Hall, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

What a night it was, one that perhaps might never have happened, one that was threatened by the Beast from the East a few weeks earlier and caused issues amongst those who were cornered by the worst snow to hit Birmingham for a generation; even the nearby statue, the so called Floozie in the Jacuzzi would have shed a thousand frozen tears to see the pity of a cancelled gig in the spiritual home of one the country’s leading Rock bands.

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(546 words, 1 image, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)