Category Archives: Music

Eden’s Curse, Testament-The Best Of Eden’s Curse. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The journey into the realm of the best of album release is one that is fraught with subjective appraisal, a verified list of a committee which does its finest application to look upon a seasoned work and narrow it down to what they believe is a fitting tribute to the band’s broad range of appeal and one that might spark debate within the fanbase. Quite often these releases are a demonstration in name only of what someone else considers might sell, a capitalist utopia of supply and demand that appears to only satisfy one thing-someone else’s bank balance.

Eden’s Curse, Testament-The Best Of Eden’s Curse. Album Review. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Dan Reed Network, Origins. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The tracing of roots and original conception can be one fraught with enclosure, of stepping back into a time in which the ideas may have been free-flowing, but they weren’t as adjustable, as patiently unpicked and stitched together with solemnity and duty of care.

Dan Reed Network, Origins. Album Review. full post

(443 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Frank Burkitt Band, Raconteur. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If only life was easy as others seem to make it be, but then if it was, how would we acknowledge genius, how would we praise hard work and determination; life is awkward, demanding, it is the challenge we must all seek out and relish when we have the opportunity to grasp the chance to inflame the passions pf others, life is easy if you want to never have achieved something beautiful, held something extraordinary, if you want to thrill a set of people and be the Raconteur at the party.

Frank Burkitt Band, Raconteur. Album Review. full post

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

Nick Ellis, Speaker’s Corner. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is arguably no greater modern-day aphorism than what the idea of free-speech represents. To some it’s meaning is clear, it is the delivery of justice in the tone of their choosing, the demand to be able to denounce, criticise and condemn anything they don’t understand or which makes them feel anger. It is not enough to openly engage their mind and spout hateful rhetoric, their opinion used as a weapon, each plosive in the mouth a tiny shell of blame, they carry it into the land of social media, their ignorance basking in bliss as they accuse and censure anybody else who tries to calmly rationalise their own point of view.

Nick Ellis, Speaker’s Corner. Album Review. full post

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

Lauren Ray, Be A Man. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Be A Man, they say, and the world is your oyster, others have claimed the role of the gender as being an excuse to run roughshod over the population, as if wearing the skin of a man gives you the reason, the right to determine sexual politics in the 21st Century. They also say that behind every great man is a great woman, however, as other enlightened members of the female brigade have shown, perhaps that should be inside the heart of a man, beats the perfect xx chromosome wanting to get out.

Lauren Ray, Be A Man. Single Review. full post

(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Fog Ensemble, Throbs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Ask not what heart beats in the dark, what noise the pulse makes in the night when alone, for a sense of the terror it is better to understand the fear of hearing thumps of trepidation in the sunlight, what Throbs in day!

The combustion of insurrection, the pose of the personal inferno burning in the soul, these may set the world on fire during the hours in which a person’s dreams should be fuelled with love, but it is in daylight when the realm of dissatisfaction, when the angry thoughts of horror first take root, and those Throbs, those whispers of panic and dread are tougher to ignore, they are incessant and beguiling, they are the sound of peace being driven to the tune of the awakening, delightful, outcome.

The Fog Ensemble, Throbs. Album Review. full post

(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Last Wild Lion, They’re Not Secrets Anymore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Thanks to the inclusion of the many various disguises and themes that social media takes on, what we once fought to keep hidden inside has become an overgrowth of sharing, our deepest thoughts, our reasoned concerns, the fantasies, the issues, the dogma we carry around has become a playground in which we seek out likes, confrontation and like-minded individuals to rally to our cause; what was once held so precious and away from prying eyes, has become in reality mysteries of ourselves let loose, naked and alone, it seems They’re Not Secrets Anymore.

Last Wild Lion, They’re Not Secrets Anymore. Album Review. full post

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

Dead Fiction, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It takes a certain kind of logic and courage to not feel crushed by the weight of the modern age, that the reality we fight is nothing more at times than a personification of the fantasy, of the fiction, others have written, and we somehow have been foolish enough to believe.

Dead Fiction, E.P. Review. full post

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

Attic Theory, Saints Among Us. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You can cross yourself as many times as you wish, you can pray to the wind, seek solace in the heavens and speak in tongues to those you seek the warm embrace of protection from, but for all of that there must be an understanding that in a world that has descended into farce, where a President is anything but presidential and wise, where the will of the people is to commit themselves to absolute uncertainty, then perhaps there really are no Saints Among Us.

Attic Theory, Saints Among Us. Single Review. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Jawbone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We live in a period of time in which we can say with grim fascination, that we reap the benefits of all our follies, that we get what we deserve; from politics, to the rage that is bent out of shape, an inward looking nation and public instead of one that is progressive and willing to change the world through kindness, compassion and hope. We have stumbled blindly, taken even greater steps to ensure that our minds are uncluttered by reasonable thought and debate, that our mouths flap in readiness to answer our own prejudices against everybody else’s opinion.

Jawbone. Album Review. full post

(466 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)