Category Archives: Music

Said The Maiden, Here’s A Health. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Said The Maiden bring a balance to musical harmony that is quite unlike anything else that clothes itself in the mystique of Folk music.

It may be a strong statement, one of those in which the listener might struggle to accept as nothing more than an anecdote or wishful thinking on behalf of those who believe they have found a purity of soul and desire to spread the word, and yet deep inside Here’s A Health lays a toast to all that hear the rhythm, all those that utter unconsciously cheers to Jess Distill, Hannah Elizabeth and Kathy Pilkinton as they serenade with the finer elements of English Folk music.

Said The Maiden, Here’s A Health. Album Review. full post

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

Zetor In the Kailyard, Collateral. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Desperate times can bring out the very best in people, it can enhance the artistic endeavour, it can find ways to hold a mirror up to culture and civilisation, to the individual just how their lives have taken a wrong turn, or give them a warning that to carry on the road of ignorance is to convey the message that society no longer matters, that we are just one step away from all being migrants, strangers, uninformed Collateral in a fractured world,

Zetor In the Kailyard, Collateral. Album Review. full post

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

Talk Show, Permanent Honeymoon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To welcome back Talk Show from the recording studio is to find yourself back in the arms of a linguistic lover who paints pictures with a heartbeat that is so closely entwined to your own needs, that you cannot but help know you are going to be caressed all night long as the memories linger and the sound of wave after wave of a Permanent Honeymoon, one supplied by one of the most attention-grabbing bands of modern times to come along.

Talk Show, Permanent Honeymoon. Album Review. full post

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

Brooke Bentham, This Rapture. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Your own personal rapture, the moment of exquisiteness that defines a life and the dynamism of the heralding of the call up to the table you have long wanted to be at. The first painting sold, the debut poem that gets applause or the E.P that signals that all that went before was indeed true and not damned by plastic smiles and the faint whiff of sulphur from fork tongued mouths; This Rapture is to be believed and seen as the stepping stone to audience enthusiasm and one that is a palpable heart stirring prospect.

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

Astles, Full Of Wonder. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To hear Daniel Astles is to see the point of naming an E.P. Full of Wonder, it does obviously allude to the songs contained harmoniously within the song listing, it does offer the sincerity of the music captured and the respect deserved. However, if you were to choose a title for the young man’s release then you would probably think of him anyway, you would align your thoughts on the whole package and come up with the same belief, that indeed it is Full of Wonder.

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(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

David Botting, Heart Beat. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

It has always been noted that life can change within the beat of a single heart, that to not listen to the sound of your inner being is a sure fire way to be seen as nonchalant, perhaps even believing that the sound of a till in these desperate consumer driven days and times of political unreality is more in keeping with 21st Century dogma than ever stopping to think just how fortunate we are to have an organ in us that feels love, pain, despair and elation.

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

Skinny Lister, The Devil, The Heart & The Fight. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You can be thrashed, taken apart by friends, Government and by the elements that sometimes dictate the way world turns but all you need to survive and see out the storm that tries its best to put you under is The Devil, The Heart & The Fight, hopefully supplied by those that love you, those that will fight your corner when the world is Hell bent on seeing you suffer, those that will help you raise two fingers to the world and for whatever reason smile when the world shrinks back due to its own cowardice.

Skinny Lister, The Devil, The Heart & The Fight. Album Review. full post

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

Matthew Robb, Spirit In The Form. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is not hard to feel disillusioned in a world that teeters on an abyss made up of political lies, when heroes became scapegoats, when those who seek fame for the sake of being famous are lauded as brilliant minds and when art is downgraded to nothing more than a pursuit or hobby; it is not hard to feel the cynicism when all you believe to be true is attacked by those who have not even looked beyond their own installed pre-convictions.

Matthew Robb, Spirit In The Form. Album Review. full post

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

Nicola Hardman, Just Human. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Just Human, there is no such thing as only just human, the very complexity of our being, the ability to raise someone up high or destroy them, to take apart the strands of their life one by one, shows we are more than just a solitary being, we can endure and seek even greater virtue or we can scatter all that is around us to dust.

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(371 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Rose Tattoo, Tatts: Live In Brunswick. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If the past is another country then to many who never saw or lived through the bright lights and garnish of the 1980s, the pub rock scene of Australia must seem like a step into a completely different planet, one that was undoubtedly rich in expression, in its representation of a culture untouched by the excess and the absurdly gluttonous. The past may be another country but to those who saw a truth in the voice of bands such as Rose Tattoo, what they saw and heard during those punishment filled lyrics and chastisement to the pretence and pretentious, was worth living in the present for.

Rose Tattoo, Tatts: Live In Brunswick. Album Review. full post

(469 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)