Category Archives: Music

Jon Meadows, Majestic 12. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

There can be too much polish ground into any album, the smear marks that make a life passionate and interesting, somehow wiped clean, the agony and the ecstasy rinsed out and bleached. Yes by all means make the record as perfect as you can but it should never be sanitised to the point of obliteration and boredom, it should never ever become the point where the world as seen through an artist’s eyes is devoid of colour, dirt or even the flirtation with possible disaster.

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(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Zed Penguin, A Ghost, A Beast. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The sinister feeds on emotion just as much as much as the beautiful, the menacing is able to stir sentiment just as passionately as the charming and pleasing on the eye; it is why stories such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein have endured across time, the sinister gets under the skin and feasts upon the wary and the obliging, into both spectrums we all fall. Whether it is for A Ghost, A Beast or any manner of ominous creature of the dark, we all embrace its probing fingers and wish for the animalistic to devour us.

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

Happy Accidents, Everything But The Here And Now. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Perhaps it could be considered wise, a sense of the shrewd and sensible in which to look at life, to embrace the past and the future as equals whilst leaving the problems of the moment completely out of touch, not worth the dime that you might spend worrying about them; to look upon both directions of your life as a series of progressive thoughts and to care for them, care for Everything But The Here And Now.

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

The Screaming Love Collective, Drop Acid and Join A Cult. Album Revew.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

“Turn on, tune in, and drop out”, the counter culture phrase that was given to Timothy Leary by Canadian intellectual Marshall McLuhan; a phrase that came to be a certain kind of law amongst those ready to accept the notion, of expanding the mind through different means and perhaps the insight to predict the idea of a world wide web, or at least a world-wide consciousness that would have scared the Hell out of those who saw it as alien, as a danger to their own way of life.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Dark Polaris, Set Fire. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Dark Polaris came through 2017 like a meteor skimming the Earth’s atmosphere, daring to plunge, intrepid and bold for the sense of belief, remaining intact and being seen for the grand nature that they have surrounding the two members; the aura of the heavenly is something we cannot touch as it circles around our heads, threatening to land, blistering to even think of being able to see directly into its shape and the mystery of its future.

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

Michael Landau, Rock Bottom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The past is always alluring, it radiates and sparkles, it has a certain glow about it that the future cannot hold and only fails to emulate, like a rainbow seen through grime stained windows, the magnificence of memory outweighs the vision that could be seen if allowed to be viewed through clean and clear glass.

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(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Vanessa Murray, Say. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Say what you will, if it is meant, if it said with care and kindness then even if it hurts then it can still be used for the power of good. It is when words are spouted out without thinking, when promised in haste, that is when the damage is done and you can never blame someone for not forgiving you, despite all the attention you shower upon them in an effort to make up for the slip of the tongue or the falseness of your outburst. Say what you want, if it is covered in a blanket of hope and the oath that the person will stand by you, then it is worthy of being remembered and loved.

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

Magnum, Lost On The Road To Eternity. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you are fortunate, then you will hear over time the dynamic of a band change; evolution must be a forward progression, it cannot stand still, it must not get sucked into the void of regression. If a group or artist is to survive then it must be seen to take steps, rightly or for ill in many fan’s eyes, in which to make sure it does not get Lost On The Road To Eternity.

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(506 words, 1 image, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

They Might Be Giants, I Like Fun. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Just because a song happens to be about death or the overwhelming subject of dread, does not mean it has to be in vain, it doesn’t have to have the music accompaniment that is sombre, almost too serious or downright sober and gloomy. What it can supply, and what They Might Be Giants have succeeded once again in capturing, is that life, no matter how draining an experience it can be, is there to enjoy and part of life is the understanding that to have the good, you must also praise and see the smiles in the bad times.

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

The Sad Song Co., Worth. Album Review.

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A person’s confession, is in itself, an act of self sacrifice, a demand for reason to become clear, to allow the possible misjudgements imposed by others, to become evident and to lay down the individual’s own thoughts and deeds, not to be hampered by society, convention or false dawn of other’s statements.

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(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)