Category Archives: Music

Arrayan Path, Dawn Of Aquarius. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When the light becomes overpowering, when the tales and myths of the age of reason become too much and threaten to bring darkness, there is always salvation to be found, a restorer of balance, a new birth in which to celebrate and take thanks in. The Chronicles of Light may have faded under the weight of the scribe’s pen but in the following year, that self same scribe has come to realise there is now in the ashes of midnight’s dusk, the Dawn of Aquarius and it is brighter, more bold and adventurous than before.

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(408 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Scaredycats, Dumb Animals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

If you can imagine a smile, beaming in the face of adversity, usually thankful for just having made it through each day without causing some sort of incident in which the brain will replay it over and over again till the subject becomes engrained, scarred, indelibly stamped on the forehead and seared like a brand on a cattle farm somewhere deep in the heart of Texas. If you can imagine that smile, then it doesn’t matter what they call you, you are in the realm of the Dumb Animals and it is arguably the best place to be.

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(407 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

The Cherry Dolls, Viva Los Dolls. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Once upon a time, in a land far away from the shores of Britain, was a place in which almost anything seemed possible, it was to many who heard the sound of the siren like adverts, a place of opportunity and sunshine, of a fresh optimism, a definite sense of positivity compared to the grey and the soggy brow beaten of the British Isles.

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

Lexie Green & The Indigo Blue, Good Morning America. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In your heart you know when you have listened to an album that not only grabs your attention, but one that speaks volumes about how the world sees itself in the reflection of the often dusty mirror; it does not happen enough in all honesty, often too insular, sometimes not willing to wipe the mirror clean and stare into the abyss and come out of the experience with love remaining and beating fast in the soul. You don’t have to hate the world just because you can see the cracks and the faults; you just have to love it more.

Lexie Green & The Indigo Blue, Good Morning America. Album Review. full post

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

Auld Hat New Heids. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is possible to yearn for the old days and not look as if you are missing the present day. For too many the slightest whiff of reminiscence or do you remember when? is enough to put them into a rage, to send them into a retort of get with the programme, stop musing over the past or the ill dispute and argument starter of what good did the past ever do you?

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

Coca Tenorio, Cold Like Stones. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be held in thrall by a language and music that you might not fully understand is to know deep in your heart that you have compassion, intrigue and fascination, the prospect for learning, not as is the case may be with some who moan and make derogatory remarks under their breath, for they have no scope, no hope they are in the end as Cold Like Stones to the plight, outlook or experience to one who is different to them.

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

Johnny Campbell, Avalon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

We all search for Avalon, the mythical lost island in which so much history, so much of our own island’s tale is based upon, the chivalric code, the fight against the darkness and evil; it may not seem it but there was a time when we could perhaps hold our heads up high and lead the charge against the legions of hate and wagers of desolation and destruction.

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

Aerial Salad, Roach. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Aggressive and punchy, it seems at times the young musicians and artists coming through today have forgotten just how important it is to pick a fight with authority and put their faces square up to flabby, sometimes spineless persona of those who would dictate their future to them. It doesn’t need to be physical, just edgy, exhilarating and showing just enough strength to show that you are not scared, everything is too safe across the board, we have all misplaced the anger because we are too comfortable to take on the Roach that is discrimination and injustice.

Aerial Salad, Roach. Album Review. full post

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

The Blue Hour, Always. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is more in this world than we can ever truly perceive, we think we feel the depth of our emotions but we never truly understand or grasp just how much damage or elation we cause ourselves in the pursuit of forever, of wanting to search for the Always as we forget the here and now. The horizon is majestic but so too is the foreground, so too is The Blue Hour in which strikes the ethereal and the charge of enlightenment.

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

When Rivers Meet, Liberty. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is a statement of intent, of courage, of absolute faith, to start an album with a cover of one of the most recognisable songs of the 20th Century. To put your own spin on a track that is part of the musical heritage of Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore takes bravery, imagination and a flair that all three American music legends would have not only have recognised as pure but surely would have congratulated for its inventiveness and music Liberty. Not everyone can carry off the song Ring of Fire in such fashion, but then not everybody is When Rivers Meet.

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