Category Archives: Music

Nick Maddocks, Listen To Your Heart. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It doesn’t matter when you finally see the boldness in your action, after all the saying about it being a marathon and not a sprint is one of the most singular truths we can hold onto, that we take heart on. For if we set out to achieve all that is possible by the time we hit our 30th birthday, what is the point in carrying on afterwards; what do we gain by torturing ourselves that at the back of our minds we must urge others to do the same, we must always take heed when someone says Listen To Your Heart and keep going.

Nick Maddocks, Listen To Your Heart. E.P. Review. full post

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

The Bevvy Sisters, This Moment. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It could be argued that all that matters is the here and now, that life in many ways has become an intransigent, almost rushed and unforgiving monster, one that snarls in pain when plans in the future are discussed, one that relishes the heartaches of the past and makes the thinker and the voyeur gnaw away at their own soul in a kind of perpetual madness.

The Bevvy Sisters, This Moment. Album Review. full post

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

Fiction Lies, Blue Lights. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

No matter the state of the world, you can rely on music to bring you to a point where anything is achievable, where the voices that were thought to be silent, mute, hushed in their anger, are raised to the place where barriers are broken, where the noiseless find public outcry and opinion is against them.

The state of the world as we see it as we come to the end of this century’s second decade, is in flux, it hangs its head in shame at the actions taken by those we placed trust in, and those who should know better, it is the Blue Lights that will carry us hopefully from them, it is the Blue Lights that prove that Fiction Lies, that deceit will never prosper.

Fiction Lies, Blue Lights. Single Review. full post

(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Rab Noakes, Welcome To Anniversaryville. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Any anniversary reached is worth commemorating, however there is something inspiring about reaching 50 years of artistic endeavour, of finding that what you may have first laid down in the heat of a moment’s love, regret, resentment or happiness, is what has driven you onwards ever since; that first scribbled line as you declared your feelings towards a person or the wrath of government, that is the flourish in which you always try to capture and see as a daily, monthly or yearly Welcome to Anniversaryville.

Rab Noakes, Welcome To Anniversaryville. Album Review. full post

(389 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

CeCe Teneal & Soul Kamotion, #5or5000. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating * * * *

To have any chance of success you need more than just the good will of one person in your corner; it is a sad state of affairs when a person’s voice in the modern world is drowned out by the flippant and the scratch your head unseemly. It is arguably the way of society now that has seen fit to laud the plastic and false and ignore the positive, the heroines and heroes to whom might get overlooked. To be in a million, or even 5 or 5000, requires people to open their hearts and their ears and allow the music to flow properly and with passion.

CeCe Teneal & Soul Kamotion, #5or5000. Album Review. full post

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

Death & The Penguin, Anomie. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is beauty in anarchy, even when the art involved might not seem as though it has a rebellious bone in its body, anarchy doesn’t have to be the great swathe of civil disorder, it must though lead to a renaissance of thought, no punches thrown, no fires started and glass smashed, all that is required in an age of illumination, is to see art explode like a bomb in the mind and the fallout scatter around enough to contaminate with fresh ideas all that come into contact with it.

Death & The Penguin, Anomie. Album Review. full post

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

Sheila K. Cameron, Those They Chose. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

As we grow older, we often forget that it is our right to choose, that the heroines and heroes we look up to are nobody’s business but our own, that the way we live our lives, the hobbies, the personal items, the places we see and things we do, as long as we are not hurting someone else in the process, are our own validated memories to keep. The same goes for others, we have no right to implore our lives and likes onto them, for they stand also by the mantra, of Those They Chose.

Sheila K. Cameron, Those They Chose. Album Review. full post

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

The Darkness: Live At Hammersmith. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Stoke the cannons with a perfectly timed raised eyebrow, load up the molten balls with enough innuendo to take apart a battleship on the high seas and set the fuse going with the dogged appreciation. The reminder that Rock and Roll can be entertaining as well good for the heart and let rip, Open Fire, for one band with a sultry, Cavalier smile and an ear for the motif have returned better than ever and if any live album of the genre is worth investigating then The Darkness: Live at Hammersmith is surely it.

The Darkness: Live At Hammersmith. Album Review. full post

(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Orchards, Losers/Lovers. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a certain delight that surrounds Brighton based band Orchards, the steady release of singles confirming the positive creativity that comes from an inseparable friendship, a meaning that comes from a shared history that stretches back across the recent folds of Time and in which the concept of love flourishes. It is idea that sees the band’s new release Losers/Lovers become a fascination, a regard for the enthral, one in which the letters in which sealed, and sometimes unrequited, amour is passionately held.

Orchards, Losers/Lovers. E.P. Review. full post

(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Various Artists, Destination: Fellside Recordings 1976-2018. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Eventually you come face to face with what you have achieved, and you see the greatness that others have known for a long time, that the selfless act of promotion in others leads to a far great spiritual richness than can ever be realised; and after 42 years at the helm of Fellside Recordings it would be perhaps considered time for the company and artists to look back on all that has accomplished and smile at the triumph of the endeavour.

Various Artists, Destination: Fellside Recordings 1976-2018. Album Review. full post

(407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)