Category Archives: Music

Alexia Avina, Betting On An Island. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When taking a gamble it is always best to remember the golden rule, don’t risk more than you can afford, never speculate when broke and above all keep in mind that the House always wins; unless of course you are Betting On An Island, then it really does matter who the dealer is, who has the honest look deep in their eyes as they deal you a series of musical cards in which you know as you carefully keep them close to your heart for a while, that each one is marked in your favour, as Alexia Avina trades for in her debut album.

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

Andrew Sheppard, Steady Your Aim. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Laud the man who knows the value of the phrase, steady…aim…aim…aim, never one who is bound by the rashness of getting the job done, who rushes to miss the point of witness the slow move which captivates and inspires. Steady Your Aim, look down the lens for as long as possible, take mental notes of the sight before you, breathe normally and get ready for the kick back which tears at the muscles of your shoulder, relish your soul and be thankful for the Country in which allows you the freedom to take an unhurried snapshot with a camera in which to feel the memories of the scene before you.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Waitress, Never Where I Want To Be. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To class anything as interesting within the sphere of Art is perhaps counter-productive to the medium as a whole; it is far too simplistic, it engages nothing and is worth exactly the same. It drops the listener or the artistic voyeur into the same realm as the school class room, the teacher trying their best to impart knowledge to a child whose shrug of the shoulders suggests that it isn’t to them, that they, like many others are only in the room because they have to be.

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(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Machine Head, Catharsis. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The very act of liberation is always one that finds itself as being the most memorable of stories, the very act of shedding all the shackles, of letting go and finding yourself free to take your life in the way that you want it to go; that is the measure of cathartic control that we could all use. Whether it is just emptying a year’s worth of piled up junk into a skip or seizing the moment to declare yourself independent of the scourge and the curse of self imposed terrorism upon your soul, Catharsis is beneficial to those that see it for the symbolic bloodletting that it is.

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(397 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, Black Coffee. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is a combination that has set the heavens alight and given inspiration to get up, go forth and give the day the attention it deserves from your soul; a blend that has nothing but the finest ingredients placed within and from the first taste, that first bolt upright defining moment in which it grabs the passion lurking within and the respect for the greater things in life.

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(422 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente, The Morning Tempest. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are times when the award someone receives is entirely justified, that the storm they bring to the attention of the crowd is not just a full on rage and cacophony of noise melded together to make a song that is considered passionate or pleasant, it is the hurricane of emotions that dwell within and which crash outwards, tumble from the pit of the stomach and get the point of no return. Yet once they cross that threshold, it becomes a serene upheaval. It is to understand that the uproar of the night has given way and in its place, The Morning Tempest strides into view across the listener’s mind.

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

Room Me, Anaon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The psyche of the Memento Mori is such that it can intrigue and repel those who look upon it with the same feelings of emotion as if you were witnessing the event of crossing the River Styx or coming upon the black and white photographs that were popular during the Victorian era, the visions of those who had recently passed away being posed in such a way, upright but dead, as if they still had the vestiges of life flowing through their decaying veins.

Room Me, Anaon. Album Review. full post

(443 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

John Chatterton, Sandancer. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You don’t always need words to capture a soul’s delight. An image, a photograph that they have taken and shared with the world is more than enough to understand their joy, the resonance framed in a single blink of the eye is enough to sing songs that require no expression of lyrical emphasis. It is a rare feat to be so human, to summarise a feeling in the realm of what you so succinctly in the power of the instrumental; that is simply, enormous.

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(348 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Julian’s Lullaby, Prisoner Of Emotions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Beyond the so called sphere of influence into which the traditional hotbed of Metal in all its guises and subgenres fall, people still don’t look too closely at the words or impact made in other countries around the globe. It is perhaps a sense of blasphemy to those who see the realms of the Nordic and Germanic passion, the British and American homelands, as having something of a divine right to put Metal forward and hope that the rest of the globe just sits back and nods their head with ever forceful agreement.

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(466 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Duran Duran, Girls On Film 1979 Demo E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is important to remember all that went before, when the fame and glory of art has been imprinted into the minds and the beginning of the story forgotten, the true inspiration found to be left in a drawer and covered over by images in papers of yesteryear. What comes through is a sense of magical familiarity, but one that is deeply encouraged to stand out because it has a difference, it could be subtle, it could be majestic or just out of kilter with the expectation that it blows the mind and does something very important, it makes the listener think.

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(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)