Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whilst social media has been a boon in many respects, it could be argued that at times we should be looking at its dangerous, tentacle like intrusion into our lives as a warning of what is to come, a foreshadowing where we are even more divided, placed into a credit like system for our beliefs and our unwillingness to be immersed into any system that screams loudly to our gut reaction that It’s A Cult.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Caught between the darkness of space and the fathomless depths of the ocean, we might consider the plainness of the land to be our faithful companion in life, but it is with a certain relish that we see the natural uplift of that horizon, one that brings us closer to the heavens without fearing the wrath of other’s gods and keeps us out of direct danger should the sea overwhelm the ground we walk on that will lead us to declare with a kind of poetic emotion that The Mountains Are My Friends.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Five years on from the internationally bestselling album Metallica, the thrash metal band returned with a different style than the fans were used to, and arguably the difference in sound, in attitude, and appearance had some scratching their heads, and some arguably utterly confused about the near 180-degree turnaround in terms of songwriting and heavy riff displacement, and yet as the band release their 2025 reissue of Load, what comes across is a resilience of Time, that the reminder of what we as fans perceive as ownership of sound and expectation is an unavoidable truth that we are wrong; that the artist is, and always will be the ones to have to have the last word on how they present themselves to the wider world.
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No matter what we may think of the United States of America, politically at times exaggerated, we must surely concede that there is so much to learn from looking at the map of the continuous land mass and understanding its myths and history at times cross over, meld and merge to a point where the only option is to explore and witness the stories first hand, to go beyond that cross roads where the Devil collects souls whilst all Hell prays you continue on your journey.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In the Fields Of Redemption, the grass will always be greener, the soul will be lighter, and the mind will be free of all that vexes it, for in delivering salvation to one’s own psyche, by offering a reclaiming of one’s past and not allowing it to define you, we find the liberation to explore a future which is clear and unhindered.
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At one time or another we have all been residents of Heartbreak City, indeed some of have not only lived within the city’s limits, taken in the views, strolled in Melancholy Park, eaten in the many restaurants of regret, they have become a spokesperson for the desire to truly explore the surroundings before they can return to the land of the exuberant and the positive nature of performing for the masses.
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More from Pulp should be greeted as the arrival of the unexpected gift, an album that arguably no fan of the Brit-Pop gatecrashes expected after such an absence from the charts and the studio. To hear the return of Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Mark Webber, and Jarvis Cocker in the iconic aural pose of poetry driven music is to feel once again the wonderful interaction of angst and tormented memories of growing up, of facing a future that seemed reserved for someone else.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The final album from the classic period of Steely Dan’s immeasurable contribution to music has come to pass just a couple of weeks after it celebrated its 49th anniversary.
Critically undervalued at the time of its release, it didn’t need time to be appreciated, it just required ears that were not focused on the sea change in musical atmosphere as the expression of the short hand Punk descended on the world and the shifting attitudes of society aligned itself with change, a bloodless revolution which saw old favourites led to the scaffold and presented with a choice, adapt or no longer be relevant.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Lynyrd Skynyrd are one of the great eminences of music, no one can deny their place at the heart of American Rock, especially the Southern variety which they exemplified with panache and style in their distinguished career, no one can understate the enormous loss felt, and which still resonates today, as the story of the infamous airplane crash which devastated the group just at their absolute zenith; and yet as the group celebrate the release of Live At The Ryman, that sense of legendary performance is almost metaphysical, it is rejoiced.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
People say that bands have forgotten how to punch a song out with fierce gusto; like a prize fighter living on former glories and memories of taking down the one hit wonders who challenge with futility the king of the ring in his heyday, but who could now deliver From The Wreckage a stunning victory and knockout blow.