Category Archives: Music

Jeremiah Johnson, Straightjacket. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The world is facing a storm, one perhaps that has arguably not been faced for as long as the vast majority of us have ever been alive, the dilemma of the path being taken, the ship of fools that are leading us into the damned unknown and making us the scapegoats for their decisions. It is no wonder that in such a period of uncertainty we find ourselves believing that the individual and collective soul has been placed in a Straightjacket, that our hands are tied, and our thoughts constricted.

Jeremiah Johnson, Straightjacket. Album Review. full post

(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Manimal, Black Plague. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The song with the bestial, almost savage hook is the one that comes along and tears apart your soul, but also has the presence of mind to nurture its recovery by being honest, brutal perhaps, but far beyond the often-stolen kiss paraded by the pop boy band which lifts the spirits only for a moment.

Manimal, Black Plague. Single Review. full post

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

Terence Blacker, Enough About Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The art of satire is one that must be preserved at all costs, to those that seek its obliteration we must always be on guard against, the alleged well-meaning hides a darker, nastier, almost totalitarian streak. If this is left unchecked by the ability to observe and have the arsenal of absolute wit to dismantle the pompous and the arrogant it will become a bleak and despotic world, in which humour of any type, if not banned, will be vacuous, boring and will be used to oppress by being aimed at the wrong people, the poor and the undervalued in our society.

Terence Blacker, Enough About Me. Album Review. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Return To Void, Memory Shift: The Day After. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The heavy hit of the late-night text message that doesn’t intend to harm, but yet without an answer, can cause stress to the intended recipient, all the thoughts of possible wrongs filter through their mind at a stream of knots that does the heart and soul no good. The agony of the doomed weight is only relieved when the conversation void is resumed The Day After, that the shift in the pattern of one thought exchange that we exhibit in this modern era is dangerous, an unrelenting enemy, and one that takes great courage to raise the red flag of vulnerability and beauty up the flag pole of precious engagement in warning.

Return To Void, Memory Shift: The Day After. Album Review. full post

(393 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Philip Marino, Chasing Ghosts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Why do we try? The pessimists, the eternal cynics who look smugly on and the ones who proclaim to the heavens at every opportunity that what you do is worthless, that you are a constant source of failure and that you should not bother; for those are the ones whose lives are empty, perhaps even dead inside as they have no sense of hope, nowhere to put their own misgivings but in the path of those who see the idea of Chasing Ghosts as a fruitful and passionate pursuit, one that might just cause a following.

Philip Marino, Chasing Ghosts. Album Review. full post

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

The Death Notes, The Black E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a gift, an attitude of passion, that gets you up in the morning and makes you want to set the heavens on fire, that believes the stars are there for the taking and whether it is for the purposes of light or the nefarious shade, one cannot argue with the determination and drive exhibited by some to achieve their goal.

The Death Notes, The Black E.P. E.P. Review. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Tom Bailey, Science Fiction. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In a world that decries those that are said to live in the past, that openly scorn such thoughts of reminisce and pleasurable association, the open declaration being smacked around like inferior quality tennis balls at a less than prestige tennis match, is that the past means nothing, look to the future, only those that see the value in taking a blinkered stride forward rather than one eye on earlier accomplishments and true victories are worthy of creating Science Fiction for the masses to enjoy.

Tom Bailey, Science Fiction. Album Review. full post

(504 words, 1 image, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Jamie MacDonald & Christian Gamauf, The Pipe Slang. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are the instruments to which seem to serve up with charm the ideal of a nation’s heritage, that resonance of sound, that digging deep into the D.N.A of the individual and the culture in which the soul has long been established, the instrument is more than a memory. It is a rallying call to the heart, to embrace, to love and to feel the pride seep out pf every pore like a storm of opportunity, a tumultuous and unrestrained moment in which to live forever in The Pipe Slang of our words and entice others to your cause.

Jamie MacDonald & Christian Gamauf, The Pipe Slang. Album Review. full post

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

Only Child, Lookin’ For A Song. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There will be those that tell you there are ten types of stories to be told, there are others who profoundly, and perhaps more accurately, declare that there is only one, the search for who we are. Yet, somewhere in between there could be argued that there is more than just the singular vision beheld by many as true and sacrosanct, that who we are can eventually be found and held close, but what about the journey that may come after, what about the passion found in remembering the past?

Only Child, Lookin’ For A Song. Single Review. full post

(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Harry Miller, Scarlett. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Six minutes is an epic amount of time in which to play out a single for, but then if the song resonates with detail, fervent enquiry and a heart that is enthusiastically persuasive to the ear as it listens out for the chance to have a fresh experience in which to hold the soul captive, then that six minutes are ones that are well spent, played over in the mind, repeated on the stereo and given the chance to make the cheeks Scarlett with anticipation.

Harry Miller, Scarlett. Single Review. full post

(378 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)