Category Archives: Music

Thunder, Please Remain Seated. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Fluidity is all the rage, fashionable even, it is perhaps an argument which is necessary in this day and age as we search for a wider definition of what it means to be human, what it means to be an individual. To be flexible in your thinking does not mean you are betraying your beliefs, just open-minded to the possibility that there is more than just your philosophy which shapes the world, and which has at one time guided the past.

Joe Jackson, Fool. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A perceived Fool can be the wisest person to talk, nobody ever pays too much attention to them until that nugget of reason which catches the ear is proclaimed as profound, but then dismissed as a one in a life time inspiration, never realising that the ready wit is always there, ready to be spoken, it is just that the fool prefers to only speak when he knows when everybody else is being duped by higher powers and they have become blind to the charms of conmen.

Cats And Crows, Winter. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

From the revelation of admitting to Honest Crimes, to extoling the virtues of the depths of Winter, it seems Cats and Crows will always find a way to hold both intriguing sentiment and passionate feelings out from the musical cradle to the nesting place in which we raise our lives high above the blizzards and storms that beset us along the way.

Claire Hastings, Those Who Roam. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A journey undertaken is never time wasted. We don’t do enough to acknowledge the bravery of those souls who seek a path away from all that they know and who will willingly venture into the undiscovered and strangely fascinating, we act as if it no big deal to leave everything behind and taste adventure, when in actual facts it can be the hardest thing in the world to do, to say goodbye and appreciate that you might never see their faces again.

Joe Martin, Daddy Gene. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The argument of nature v nurture goes far beyond the debate of many social causes, it is also a question in which sees art and artists work close in hand with what they absorb from others, as well as what was probably innate within them to begin with.

Rachel Croft, Hours Awake. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In your heart you know what you yearn, it is only your mind that seeks to divert you from a path you wish to take, how else do those hours awake at night drag you down, leave you feeling a different mood, bring strange thoughts, blurred, indecipherable visions and scenarios to mind, would it be better to listen to your heart, feel content as it beats softly against your chest, Hours Awake is a blissful state of conscious if you take note of what keeps you conscious.

Sean Taylor, This Is England. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In our lifetime the meaning and the word of what England meant has undergone a radical change, it is arguably a transformation that the world has seen fit to experience at the same time but for those raised on the spirit of belief in what the country endured and fought against in the oppression of tyranny from Nazism, the time it offered the rest of the world to lay plans to stop Fascism taking a grip on continental Europe forever, all now gone. A crumpled laughing stock and used as an example as state which values its millionaires more than the hungry, the poor, the disabled and every state in between.

Within Temptation, Resist. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Whether in the majestic instrumental interpretation interludes, or throughout the phenomenal songs that carry the charm and darkness of lead singer Sharon den Adel, the seventh album from Dutch mega pioneers Within Temptation is one that arguably, and quite rightly, will be impossible to Resist.

Such statements are bound by the honour in which they are forever etched in time with, and thankfully the contest between open admiration and the sublime recording is one that matches up perfectly; to Resist is not just a right, it is the moral justification of all that you believe in and the privilege of expecting nothing less than being entirely correct in your assertion.

Ranagri, Playing For Luck. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Chances are that anything you may have tried your hand at to create, to build or love, has been greeted with the suspicion of those who come to view it, as being inspired by a gift, or just dumb good fortune to be in the right place at the right time, that you must have had a break or known people who would build you up; never realising that your talent is the result of long, arduous hours of exhausting practise, of labour and creative industry, not a case of Playing For Luck to prove that you have a voice in this world.

The Ego Ritual. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Life occasionally asks you to dig deep, to dispense with the shovel and spade, and to take up arms against the seemingly unmoveable Earth with a heavy-duty digger, to use the mechanics at your disposal and ask questions of what you may find, that the rubble you have disturbed leads to a core value, a gold stream you may not have expected; such a move does the self-image good, that The Ego Ritual is to be treated as sacred.