Category Archives: Music

Mersey Wylie, The Skin I Live In. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In opening up our souls to love we find ways in which to deal with the darkness that stalks our everyday existence, it might be one that makes us breathe a little harder, our pulse that dwells otherwise unhindered to spark with fire, fury and beauty, we might fall, we could rise, whatever happens we must heed that which speaks to us inside and perhaps find a way to stride like a giant through castle halls and say that no matter what is thrown at us we can deal, we can be assured of hope with The Skin I Live In.

Mersey Wylie, The Skin I Live In. E.P. Review. full post

(349 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

The Peach Fuzz, Destroy The Evidence. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We stand at a cross roads in the fate of humanity, we find we cannot move forward because of what holds us back, we cannot retain the old ideals and sounds of beleaguered triumphalism because the future demands, and requires, change.

The Peach Fuzz, Destroy The Evidence. Single Review. full post

(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Beth Hart-Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

An entertainer, a performer, who can take you to a place in which you can understand the emotional turmoil in which they have been placed, the strength of absolute character in which they have shown and resolved to fight in, these are the epitome of artists to whom we find ourselves drawn to. Their voice is the conduit of the pain fought against and one that is not driven by self-interest, falsehood or narcissistic overtones, a pain that is real, a reflection that is beautiful, a series of musical confessions in which life is very much out in the open and live for all to see and hear.

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

She Drew The Gun, Revolution Of Mind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The only way that a revolt, an uprising, will ever happen in this country is when we admit that we were all kept that little bit too comfortable to worry about rebelling. What is needed more than the unquiet death hallows of a bitter riot, a mutiny in which so many believe they can make political gain out of, what is actually required is a Revolution of Mind, a well thought repel of all that has been taught and regurgitated across the last couple of centuries in British classrooms.

She Drew The Gun, Revolution Of Mind. Album Review. full post

(387 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Holygram, Modern Cults. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We look upon the modern world with either eager anticipation, or with the prospect of finding a black cloud hanging above our heads, we search in vain for the appearance of the dust bowl grime that beset the Peanuts character, Pig-Pen, the calling card to which our lives our reduced to nervous agitation about the state of the world and our own personal future in it.

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(437 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Fiction Lies, Just In Time (To Be Too Late). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Keeping time is essential, always running behind the clock leaves you stressed, being punctual is the height of good manners; such is the demand of etiquette, a hangover from previous generations that didn’t understand the occasion is sometimes too overwhelming for some and for them to process, that the individual is not regimented by time.

Fiction Lies, Just In Time (To Be Too Late). Single Review. full post

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

Alan Triggs, Hey Mister. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

Art should never be frozen, stuck in a place in which dust crawls and multiplies over the icy cage in which the artist’s endeavour is placed by the well-meaning and the loved-up into a place of no change, of never being able to grow, to adapt, to find another level in which hopefully the art in question will come to mean something different, something more.

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(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Carr & Roswall, Time Flies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Time is a construct in which we find ourselves filling in days with observations and damage limitation, with pursuits and love, and wherever possible with belief, a belief that what we create will be at least appreciated, if not valued. Time Flies when you’re having fun, however when that time disappears into the ether, a last salute before it is enveloped by unquenchable fog, what we find remaining is a truth, a social reality steeped in a language which we wish to embrace. We cannot fathom Time, we can only live in its shadow and pray we make the most of it and create something beautiful.

Carr & Roswall, Time Flies. Album Review. full post

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

Yvonne Lyon, I Believe In Christmas. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Christmas comes but once a year, and for many that is one time too many, a season of excess, of superficiality, of overload and mental health issues as each year we forget that the point of it all is to reflect, to be thankful and look forward to the brighter days ahead. For some the abundance of good cheer perhaps masks the feeling of loneliness, of regret, the glut of merriment a shell in which we crawl to see us through dark times.

Yvonne Lyon, I Believe In Christmas. Single Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

P.O.D. Circles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Fashion, like conscious rebellion, goes around in Circles, what is popular and considered absolute authority one day, is rebutted and rebuked until a new generation comes along and finds their sympathies firmly entrenched with an older thought, old clothes, new perspective.

What is fashionable today somehow becomes a renaissance figure tomorrow, the resurgence in popularity that comes along is to be expected, but not always one that surfaces against the tide of expectation and delivery. It takes a genuine thought of speaking out between the old and new and ploughing a path less visited in which to grab the attention of those you wish to have by your side for the battle ahead.

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(401 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)