Category Archives: Music

The Cinelli Brothers, Babe Please Set Your Alarm. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If not now, then when? There is always a job to do, a chore to update or a task that requires your attention, however in the best of worlds they would be dismissed, they would play second fiddle to the creative urge and the often snide remarks or frustration that comes with such yearnings, they would be relegated to the muted and the silenced. We set ourselves goals or the faint whisper of dreams but we rarely fully achieve them, Time having this peculiar habit of making sure we forget to wind our clock onwards, to set the alarm of when completion dates are due.

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

Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, The Outsider. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you haven’t felt like an outsider in life then perhaps you have either been spared great pain and looks of pity and resentment, or with greater depth, you have looked upon the masses blindly following the latest craze and fashions and thanked whichever deity looks after your soul or your own reason, that you are not part of the experiment. Whichever way you look upon it, being The Outsider is either a blessing or a curse in which to live with.

Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, The Outsider. Album Review. full post

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

John Stamp, Franklin 54. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter how long you spend away from the pursuit of creativity, given just a single moment in the company of one who can present the muse with generosity and with a keen eye for your own heartbeat’s desire, soon enough you find your way back to the place in which the diverted sign post sent you down a road which was fulfilling and wholesome but to which arguably caused you to be immersed too long, you studied every notch and cranny in this place and now soon enough the urge to sing once again is paramount.

John Stamp, Franklin 54. Album Review. full post

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

Blackberry Smoke, Find A Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are nothing but flesh and bone that walks an Earth that is often painful, frequently bitter and habitually elusive. We find our way only by listening carefully to our souls, by wandering, often without hope or company, that one hand in the darkness that gives us reassurance, until finally through the dark, the clawing mist and the years of doubt, we succeed in the treasure of the universe as we Find A Light to guide us to our natural surroundings.

Blackberry Smoke, Find A Light. Album Review. full post

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

Thunderbird. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When the battle cry is over, all that is left running and garnering admiring looks from the stunned but energised crowd who witness the spin of the wheels and the heat, the sheer plume of fire and smoke that comes out of the exhausts and causes the thin layer of reason between Earth and the sky to cloud over and mingle in the sound of an engine beating with excitement, when all is said and done, only the Thunderbird remains.

Thunderbird. Album Review. full post

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

Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The trailer always moves on, by an artist’s own definition it cannot remain in the same place forever, how else would the same scenery inspire the muse or its creator to keep on producing new and exciting material if that were the case.

Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour. Album Review. full post

(424 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. Memories In Rock II. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Memories of Rock gigs, the nights in which you went as a crowd to have pre-planned fun and to toast the future of the band you had made your way, perhaps for a couple of hundred miles, to see, or the strange sensation of finding yourself alone in a crowded auditorium, wide-eyed and feeling the passion steam roller through you as if you were the only person on the planet that it had managed to ignore all your life and was now Hell bent on making sure you were blessed with the memory forever.

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. Memories In Rock II. Album Review. full post

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

The Furious Seasons, Now Residing Abroad. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What does it mean when you feel like a stranger in the country you were born into, that your parents and grandparents held their hand on their collective hearts and swore loyalty and fidelity to those they entrusted to make decisions that would make their way of life better, make those of the generations that followed, stand out, be seen as wholesome and pure.

The Furious Seasons, Now Residing Abroad. Album Review. full post

(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The Kris Barras Band, The Divine And The Dirty. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are more than just a line in the sand, the choice between the devilish and the angelic is not confined to a stereo type or the restrictive views of judge, jury and the executioner of the fountain pen and typewriter. We all have the capacity to be both The Divine And The Dirty in this game we stumble through, it is just the matter of someone else’s perspective to see which side we fall upon.

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(428 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Lordi, Sexorcism. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When you have perfected the art of controversy, even if done so with tongue firmly in cheek, the only thing that can stop you from achieving further notoriety is the limit of your own imagination and the depth in which you wish people to see you dwell. Controversy is the bitterest aspects of fame but in many ways it is also the most heartening, it is the testament to the human psyche that sees society applaud those willing to push boundaries and art and be cynical as time goes by of those that played the game with padding underneath their broad shoulders.

Lordi, Sexorcism. Album Review. full post

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