Category Archives: Music

The Bordellos, Debt Sounds. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A particular school of thought always maintains, insists and is arguably right, that an album created does not have to conform to fashion, blinkered style or persistent convention; it is what the Punk ethic strove for, to prove that anybody could achieve anything if they had the ethos of passion, drive and someone to listen to them perform. It is drive that sets the way, without it, you may as well sit at home and just talk about doing stuff, placing your life on permanent hold, doing nothing and wishing you had at least, just once put your thoughts down in a Punk style.

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(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Three From Above, Hail Caesar!, Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is the evocative sound of agreement turned in on itself, of the signalling of the Triumvirate in action as they held the world in the palm of their hands and never for a minute believing it would be for anything other than pleasure and domination; certainly not to be used in conjunction by an entertaining band from Liverpool who see the world in their latest single, as an intense, moody joy and third round knockout in front of a 10,000 strong baying crowd at the Liverpool Echo Arena.

Three From Above, Hail Caesar!, Single Review. full post

(362 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Barry Nisbet, A Bright Ray Of Sunshine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all deserve to find that feeling, even if it just once, of A Bright Ray of Sunshine that will somehow fill our day with possibility and memory, of leading into a realm inhabited by the mystical and the fire, of seeing into a landscape that is both undeniably alien and yet also comfortably familiar, of witnessing the heather bloom in a far of land that is part of your own understanding and yet has ways that mystifies and perplexes the mind. We might seek the bright ray of sunshine but unless we are careful, we also could find that we are entranced by it to the point of not focusing on anything else for a while.

Barry Nisbet, A Bright Ray Of Sunshine. Album Review. full post

(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Ian Siegal, It’s All The Rage. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It’s All The Rage… fear, anger, the frenzied daily attacks that leave us blindsided and feeling like our minds have become the plaything for lesser men to manipulate; it is all the rage, this feeling of anxiety, of thunder in the hearts but no lightning to spark the brain into the rebellion, or at least urging on those who are willing to tackle the subjects so few are able to comprehend.

Ian Siegal, It’s All The Rage. Album Review. full post

(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Georgia Black, The Morning’s Just Begun. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You have to get up early in the day if you don’t wish to betray the dawn; that the old Victorian adage of early to bed, early to rise, is only as good as what the day has in store for you, that being on a planet with seven billion other humans makes you less unique, almost in this day and age no more relevant than a cog in the machine, or at least that is what some would have you believe, for they only see the dawn, they don’t understand that The Morning’s Just Begun.

Georgia Black, The Morning’s Just Begun. Single Review. full post

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

Jenny Van West, Happiness To Burn. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Some have money, some have Time, a few possess a certain talent that they readily dispense and others are quite content to set fire to the world in their pursuit of their own version of the dream, yet happiness is a commodity, an emotion that no one seems to want to share unless there is something in it for them, they will store it, lock it away as if it has the same value to them as Gold or the Dollar in their pocket.

Jenny Van West, Happiness To Burn. Album Review. full post

(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Django Django, Marble Skies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We can all look upwards and see the heavens as the very epitome of what gives us intrigue, imagination and wonder, what guides us and keeps us grounded, that no matter how hard we try to punch a hole through the great beyond, something inside of us will always cling to the marble we inhabit as it goes around the sun, a piece of us will always see the Marble Skies and understand whilst cannot touch what is through the void, the void will seek us out and make us find our soul.

Django Django, Marble Skies. Album Review. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Beth Hart. Live From New York: Front And Center. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is the sound of the city that never gets tired,  no matter what is thrown against it, no matter the struggles and the trials that face New York, its heart beat never wavers, its song remains constant and unconquerable, inspiring. One that even the lady holding out the welcome to all who visit her as she stands majestically on the biggest stage in the city, and her fierce gaze staring out defiantly to all who would mock a home of the Blues; this is the sound to which Beth Hart naturally belongs, in which the siren captures the soul as she sings Live From New York: Front And Center.

Beth Hart. Live From New York: Front And Center. Album Review. full post

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

The Dead Agents, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It all seems in vogue, a return to the great Rock bands of the Midlands in which a generation pinned their hopes and aspirations upon, in which the past has become very much part of the future and to which The Dead Agents can be seen to be held deeply within this new and beguiling renaissance.

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

Erasure, World Beyond. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To believe you can improve upon a classic is tantamount in many quarters as being condescending, perhaps even verging on the proud, of finding yourself placed into a section of society that is never satisfied with the result and considering yourself above the artist that made the picture perfect in the first place. However, to seek improvement, no matter in which way you deem appropriate, is how we learn, nothing is truly insurmountable that it cannot be seen as delving further, seeing farther and with the help of the collective ideal, be seen as going to the World Beyond.

Erasure, World Beyond. Album Review. full post

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