Category Archives: Music

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)

Sam Llanas, Return Of The Goya Part 1. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You can paint words onto a canvas and take the chance that you will, artistically, be recognised and that your sentence is long and fruitful, that even the deaf value your voice and the blind seek out comfortably your vision, that in an age where the artist can no longer rely on being heard or their story told in later years, that the allusion to the greats such as Goya, Rubens or Constable, are not in vein when thinking of the art held aloft.

Sam Llanas, Return Of The Goya Part 1. Album Review. full post

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

Calypso Rose, So Calypso!. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When you are a Queen, a public proclaimed member of musical royalty, almost anything is possible, no song is out of touch, no struggle in the search for a tune that is deemed brave, beautiful or positively full of bounce, is never going to be cast aside and dismissed as out of bounds, for a Queen, especially one who has done so much to bring Calypso to an even greater audience, a woman who broke the domination of the genre and gave it a distinctly female voice.

Calypso Rose, So Calypso!. Album Review. full post

(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Emily Lee, Dance My Demon Away. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Acknowledging the demons and angels that drive you is one thing, to actively seek them out, to knock on their own door in the dead of night and ask them to dance, is quite another. By taking this course of action, being proactive and seeing them smile after an exhausting session in which you are in control, somehow the demon is diminished, not quite eradicated but made too drained to care about upsetting the creative process; the demon may dance, the angelic voice may soar, but it is too the artist that all ends well for.

Emily Lee, Dance My Demon Away. E.P. Review. full post

(344 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Beinn Lee, Osgarra. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There will always be those that are thankfully drawn together from different walks of life and from seemingly dissimilar backgrounds and to whom the world takes heed of for their ability to play together as if they had grown up in each other’s pockets, that the music they make is born of tight childhood reminisce and times spent as teenagers making plans.

Beinn Lee, Osgarra. Album Review. full post

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

Tony Winn, Push And Pull. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It doesn’t matter when you come across the artist, it only matters that you do. A simple sentence to live by perhaps, but one that inhabits the space arguably between regret and hope like no other; you can spend the time lamenting the realisation that you must missed the unmasking, the early raw period of an artist to whom the music captivates you at the very defining moment you cross paths, or you can hope, you can feel the bounty that is to optimistically come.

Tony Winn, Push And Pull. Album Review. full post

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

The Folk Doctors, Silent Shores. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can walk the entirety of this land’s coast line and occasionally you come across those pockets of space that seem to exist only in the imagination or in the realms of fantasy, the quiet places, the only sound is that of the crashing sea as it argues over the point of sovereignty, of where the water meets the might of cliffs and the unguarded beaches. No human to be found to hear the constant declaration of war, no person to feel the calm when the mutual shaking of the elements has reached its peace; you can walk these coast lines and relish the thought that someday you will visit Silent Shores.

The Folk Doctors, Silent Shores. Album Review. full post

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

Panic! At The Disco, Pray For The Wicked. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Life doesn’t have to have drama sewn through its inner skin and clothing, but it surely must have the theatrical, it must have the strength to embrace the flamboyant, the emotional and the sometimes over the top, a life filled with drama sounds staged, an exercise in false control and manipulation; a life that holds onto the colourful and the passionate on the other hand, surely makes you smile, and in some quarters allows you to Pray For The Wicked.

Panic! At The Disco, Pray For The Wicked. Album Review. full post

(415 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Bullet For My Valentine, Gravity. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A force of nature that cannot be dismissed, absolved or found wanting, it is the very nature of the humanity that we strive to find a way to beat it, but in doing so the only thing we have achieved is to free ourselves of Earthly constraints but perhaps losing our soul along the way; Gravity is too strong a force, it is binding, all-consuming and for Bullet For My Valentine, it is brutally exquisite.

Bullet For My Valentine, Gravity. Album Review. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Michelle Malone, Slings And Arrows. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can quote the Bard as often as you like, for arguably nobody has captured the human condition as well as the man from Stratford-Upon-Avon, no person will perhaps understand the frailty, hate, suspicion, love, despair and mischief in a person’s heart as William Shakespeare. If you know that he recognised that we prevaricate between the choice of light and dark, of proud assurance and tame compliance, then it is hardly surprising that we as a species find it a pleasure to see the fortune of Slings and Arrows as they hit home and the way we overcome them, that we can, should the heart be true, oppose all obstacles that come our way.

Michelle Malone, Slings And Arrows. Album Review. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)