Category Archives: Music

Distorted Force, Curves Of A Sidereal Cosmos. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you can have the best of both worlds, then why not seek out more than one flavour of jam to put on your toast, love with both intensity and feeling and if all works for you across the board, then meld the forces of the Progressive and the crash of symbolic Metal to the point where the boiling cauldron of the instantly creative overflows and destroys the path of ignorance with first class precision. For this once thought conceptual distorted force, only dared to be breached by the timeless Iron Maiden in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son or in the incomparable Queensryche, has more than come of age since those tentative steps.

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(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Phil Hare, A Stranger I Came. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is such that the sound of an unfamiliar outsider makes their presence known, we can often be forgiven for recoiling at the outlandish oddity of their voice, the startle in which the mind refuses to comprehend, the feeling of disconcertment when their phrases shake your beliefs and the shutters and the walls start to begin to appear between you and them.

Phil Hare, A Stranger I Came. Album Review. full post

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

Matt Dunbar & Holly Rees, Your Place. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Your Place, or even mine, wherever your place, your particular safe space in which you are either welcomed in to, or in which you make others comfortable and relaxed, that is the level of friendship that we perhaps aspire to, that we can invite someone from a thousand miles or more away and feel the contented ease of their presence sit alongside ours.

Matt Dunbar & Holly Rees, Your Place. Single Review. full post

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

Freedom Of Sound: Featuring Amanda Lyons, Sunshine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are granted so little in this world, some perhaps more than others but the basics that come to us should be held on to with dear life, with purpose and with dignity. Our senses for one, if we are fortunate enough to see, hear, touch, speak, then we are indeed blessed, we have the freedom to wonder, to imagine, the liberty of speech, and the freedom of sound; a freedom we should never allow to be taken from us, a freedom that is as beautiful as one day of Sunshine in a month of rain.

Freedom Of Sound: Featuring Amanda Lyons, Sunshine. Album Review. full post

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

Phil Madeira, Providence. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We all seek the sense of foresight, a possibility of fortune and the hope that once in a while we may enjoy being held by Providence tightly, that she may whisper in to our ears, “That the journey from somewhere like Rhode Island to the historic passion of Nashville will come for you, just hold on.”

Phil Madeira, Providence. Album Review. full post

(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Andrea Baker, Sing Sistah Sing! Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter where we believe we are from, the sound of Africa still resonates deep in our soul and in our species’ memory, we find ourselves looking to that continent with awe and with trepidation. It should be argued more vigorously that we have all been party to its suffering, that it still, despite its natural beauty and deep secrets, has scars that potentially will never heal, not properly, not with the sense that right minded people would like it be, more than bountiful, more than flourishing, it should be lauded and prized as a beacon of that is good and beautiful.

Andrea Baker, Sing Sistah Sing! Album Review. full post

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

The Mono LPs, Hell, Save My Soul. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

All your prayers are answered, the conversation with the gods has been noted and the outcome is one in which the incredible Liverpool band, The Mono LPs, return in the robes of a messenger having visited a wise Oracle, guarding a proclamation so deep, so meaningful, that the response from the Heavens is one that is earth shattering, upbeat and full of the exuberance you would need to shout, Hell, Save My Soul.

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

Joey Costello, The Wind Blows By. E.P.Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You only notice the heat of your life when The Wind Blows By to shake the feeling of emotional swelter from what has been your existence so far; a cool wind of realisation, or rationale and the chance to savour the cordiality with one’s soul, it is all that is required to feel the calm breeze lift your spirits and reflect upon what is important and what is but a tempest you cannot control.

Joey Costello, The Wind Blows By. E.P.Review. full post

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

Kara Grainger, Living With Your Ghost. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

People pay thousands for therapy, some rattle on whilst the world pretends to take notice for a while, and then, when it is all over, they complain that nothing has changed, that somehow just talking to a pair of ears can ever find a way to lose the spectres and phantoms we carry round with us in our hearts. The point that could be argued, that whilst it is good to talk, it is far better to listen, sometimes even more enjoyable in some certain scenarios, to understand the restless spirit, to be thrilled with Living With Your Ghost.

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(507 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Mike Zito, First Class Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The lifestyles of the rich and famous, the glitz and the sparkling glamour, it is, in the eyes of many, the way to be remembered, to have a good time, it is born perhaps out of jealousy, out of desperation even, it is the longing that sits buried in the heart of the human sea and one that grows with speed and unfulfilled desire; to have a First Class Life, they believe involves a greater degree of hedonism, perhaps bordering on the selfish and the unrepentant.

Mike Zito, First Class Life. Album Review. full post

(473 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)