Category Archives: Music

Linsey Aitken And Ken Campbell, Shore To Shore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The maps that show the world the scale of the countries, the nations that fit into place, are normally completely wrong, at its most central point, the continent of Africa is so much more than is ever given respect for, not only in terms of its sheer size but its beauty, its endurance and its people. The same can be said for Scotland. Yes, from Shore To Shore its land mass is not as great as some, its near neighbour perhaps disproportionally larger in the ground it takes up, like an overweight, blustering man and his skinny put upon wife sharing the same bed, the strain on the relationship becomes too much. Yet Scotland itself is immense, it’s heart and soul is everything, and in its art, its stature across the board, is phenomenally endearing.

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

The Shires, Accidently On Purpose. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10


There are so few things that are ever truly accidental, most chain of events and progression of cause and effect are designed, perhaps unconsciously but always with the firm result that the person’s life will change because of it. Accidently on Purpose, the eye rolling declaration of the mother who sees her child do the exact opposite of what she has commanded and even the experiment gone haywire in the lab, all have their reason, the effect consuming. In the studio, in the pursuit of sign of elegance and beauty, it is not an accident that comes to mind, but the sheer weight of passion that regales the listener to appreciate the coming together of British Country greats, The Shires, for their third album.

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(377 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

George Duff, The Collier Laddie. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is perhaps natural in the modern world, to hear the voice of the traditional musician, the established song, and think of it as a quaint reminder of what life was like before the advent of the electronic revolution or the influx of genres that either you have embraced, or which leave you cold. It is that quaint reminder that left the Blues suffering towards the end of the last century, along with its bloated sense of entitlement which kept people from holding it too close, and left Jazz in a quandary of how to reinvent itself in the 21st Century.

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(490 words, 1 image, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Mike Smith, Paint Your Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The wagon was painted quite some time ago, but as with most lives, we often come into our own story later than others who have been waiting patiently for us, who have erected the scaffolding, laid out the hopes and the brushes and await eagerly for you to Paint Your Sky, to put down the colours in which have defined your life, your vision, your meaningful, and honour-bound art.

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

Little Sparrow, Just 3. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The power of 3, a number that cannot be divided by the whole, it is a symbol of strength, of divinity and legend, the three-fold person to which we all see in the long mirrors that adorned tables of old and into each face there were the reflections of glory, of inspiration and of beauty; Just 3, there is no need to crowd the room with more, there can be no greater affection bestowed.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Room In The Wood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If we cannot see the wood for the trees, then how may we be able to see The Room In The Wood, how may we feel at the thought that there is no place to step into that isn’t natural, that all around is the synthetic and the over polished, no gnarls, no knots, no rings in the tree which indicate growth, no notches on the bedpost which suggest evolution and gained knowledge.

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(448 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Dentist, Night Swimming. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whether it is by looking across the marshy end of the Atlantic Ocean that surrounds New Jersey’s Benny’s Landing, the quiet splendour that engrosses the seasonal visitor to the once colonial outreach of Cape May, the thought of Wild Wood or the cacophony of noise that bombards the breakers and the casino halls of Atlantic City; what comes across all the time, is the sheer honesty that made the state culturally rich when it comes to music. Whatever the genre, whatever the time in which it lays downs its line of intrigue, New Jersey is arguably the state to visit if you want music to dig deep down into the roots of your soul.

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(486 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Tas Cru, Memphis Song. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you can’t play the hand that your God gave you, then the least you can do is acknowledge that the Devil holds all the aces and only allows a select few to witness them and play the Blues in return. However, if you are going to go all the way, the only logical place to see the Blues at such close quarters, where you can feel the rhythm of the saints urge on any almighty card shark, and the Devil slyly hold his own deck under the table, is to Tennessee, to listen to the Memphis Song that shines against the light above the table and the reflection of the Queen of Hearts breathing in excitement is held in the dealer’s visor.

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(448 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Addie Brik, I Have A Doctor On Board. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Addie Brik is resolute in her delivery, but then that truly should come as no surprise, an individual driven, not by the joy of success, but by the calm need to understand all that comes before her, to feel the answers being considered, reflected and pondered upon, in what is an impressive mind, and then with her discoveries mused upon, the thoughts giving way to the experience of writing.

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(373 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)