Category Archives: Music

Kid Andersen, The Dreamer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

 

Without dreamers there is no progress, without The Dreamer there is no call back to celebrate and reflect upon a time of Blues which has largely since disappeared as the new century has dawned and allowed the genre to tackle the issues that faced it as the 1980s and 90s came to an end. To take such a positive and courageous step and reinforcing what made the Blues so special to millions of fans is a privilege that must not be abused, but one that should see the artist flourish under the scrutiny that is sure to come.

Kid Andersen, The Dreamer. Album Review. full post

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

Rick Springfield, The King Snake. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

They say in the land of Rock ‘N’ Roll you have to change lanes once in a while, that you have to put the hazards on, put the foot down and get off the freeway, let the Interstate be a distant memory and occasionally speed along the back roads, kicking up dust and kick down the doors of the roadhouses, order a beer or two, follow it up with indiscretion and listen to the conversation on your shoulders between any angel passing by and big Ol’ Red. In the land of Rock ‘N’ Roll you got to put on the radio, tune in to The King Snake and relax in the heart of The King Snake.

Rick Springfield, The King Snake. Album Review. full post

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

The Bad Flowers, Starting Gun. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Pink Floyd got it spot on in their 1973 song Time from their opus Dark Side of the Moon, we miss the noise of the Starting Gun and find we have no one to blame but ourselves for the missed opportunities and the chance to rock the world with our energy.  

The Bad Flowers, Starting Gun. Album Review. full post

(418 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

DateMonthYear, March. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Grief is impossible to truly understand, the one emotion we all go through, perhaps many times, but it is the one that can shape our psyche arguably more than any other and it is one that is mostly private. Nobody’s anguish is the same and nobody can know what you are feeling, empathise yes, have compassion for; but to understand or even dare tell you that you should be over it by a certain date, then that is almost giving you a target or a limit on how the mental strength rebounds once the intensity starts to fade.

DateMonthYear, March. Single Review. full post

(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Tankard, Hymns For The Drunk. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can never keep heroes down, they don’t require a cape, they have no need for x-ray vision, for the energy of the gods or the sense of righteous indignation when the world is about to attacked by an alien. Unless of course that particular extra terrestrial being is skimming off the head of the beer ordered and taunts the drinker with the empty glass and throwing down the gauntlet of proving that the finest cult Metal band of them all has stamina to sing Hymns For The Drunk.

Tankard, Hymns For The Drunk. Album Review. full post

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

Evertim, Your Heaven Held Me Well. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is at that moment when all things end, that sadness and reflection come together in a powerful storm of intoxicating magnitude. The moment when you are let go by the person you love, be it a parent, a sibling, the one you thought would last forever in your heart or even when you let go of yourself, when you realise that all you ever were was just a story, a collection of memories in someone else’s mind. It is a feeling of almost exquisite despair, of potent melancholy to know that you will not be able to tell them that, Your Heaven Held Me Well, even if it for a short while.

Evertim, Your Heaven Held Me Well. E.P. Review. full post

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

Zoe Mulford, Small Brown Birds. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you are fortunate, if your ears are clear after the end of year celebrations and the realisation that the following year is one to hopefully savour, one to embrace the call of nature as it sings and chirps beautifully in the hedgerows and on top of the nearest building as the winter sun hits the world and greets it with a smile. Regardless of whether it is the song of the brightest, purest dove or the tune of Small Brown Birds, what counts is your appreciation of the hymn being played out as the dawn and hope peeks out from behind its dying year curtain.

Zoe Mulford, Small Brown Birds. Album Review. full post

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

Drink And Drive. This Is What Happens When a Fly Lands In your Food. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Chaos is the random art of unexpected beauty, the commotion that can be handled and ordered but to which somehow you let gather pace because when you see it unfold you start to understand that confusion is the Salvador Dali painting made universal and the turmoil of structure rebelling against itself. It is the dam that breaks, the hundred school children in a hall with one teacher, the island that sits in judgement on a group of boys and turns them to savages and chaos is at its finest when you appreciate that This Is What Happens When a Fly Lands In your Food.

Drink And Drive. This Is What Happens When a Fly Lands In your Food. Album Review. full post

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

Andrew Hesford, Any Moment Now. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Any Moment Now; an outburst of declaration, a quiet inward wish, a spoken treaty with fate, whichever way you tend to look those three small words, they are weighted with expectation, demand and more than enough hope inside of them. Any moment now, the realisation of years of practise, of dedication and often setback will conjoin and see the lightning strike in the same place twice, leaving the onlooker dazed by the flash of brilliance but rejoicing in having been able to witness its arrival.

Andrew Hesford, Any Moment Now. Album Review. full post

(534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Raphael Callaghan, Said And Done. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Don’t Let the Devil Drive, but then He does write all the best tunes and offers the finest scathing one liners to which he has no issue in you pursuing and making your own, when all is Said And Done, if the ride is free and you get to shoot the breeze with someone who is going to plant random gems in your mind then don’t just let the Devil drive, make him sing as well.

Raphael Callaghan, Said And Done. Album Review. full post

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