Category Archives: Music

Reuben Archer’s Personal Sin, Petrolhead. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

One must always find the time to confess a love in their life, we are here for such a short time that to deny what makes up happy is to deny some sort of existence; whether it is the person of their dreams, the smell of hot tarmac punishing the air surrounding them or the thought of leather shining in the American sun, the cool wind giving a sense of alien like fragility as the road crumbles ahead and cracks under the pressure of a thousand tyres leaving their imprints and marks. To deny a love is a personal sin and one that almost any Petrolhead would raise their arms in joy at hearing from someone of similar persuasion.

Reuben Archer’s Personal Sin, Petrolhead. Album Review. full post

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

Jack Lukeman, Magic Days. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is nothing in this world that can touch the feeling of absolute passion in a person’s thoughts and actions, even in the unseen, the visually unattainable, if the words can be heard, if they send a shiver down your spine then all in the world is filled at least with humanity and beauty. It is a way in the world which gives hope, which really makes the listener of the delight and enthusiasm dream of a place where all can be held with such fervour.

Jack Lukeman, Magic Days. Album Review. full post

(449 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Melrose Quartet, Dominion. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Dylan Thomas might have found the juxtaposition intriguing, that he spoke of that Death shall have no Dominion, is in deep contrast to the feel that Sheffield’s Melrose Quartet offer as they offer a significant sense of praise to humanity in their album Dominion.

Melrose Quartet, Dominion. Album Review. full post

(382 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Laura Benitez And The Heartache, With All Its Thorns. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Vulnerability exposed is to be expected somewhere along the line in any artist’s life, it is the touch of the mercurial that has been opened to the elements, uncovered truths as the musician, the poet or the painter is given more time by those who express an interest in such things and breathe fire into the next piece of work offered. Vulnerable in artistic terms is not to be seen as weak or in a position of susceptibility, it is just a rose opening up to the praise and the sunlight and With All Its Thorns showing.

Laura Benitez And The Heartache, With All Its Thorns. Album Review. full post

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

Annihilator, For The Demented. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It still seems peculiar that almost 30 years after Annihilator burst on to the scene with their tremendous debut album Alice In Hell, that the Canadian thrash metal band still live in the shadows of many of their American cousins, that despite the time spent with different ideas, charged atmospheres and sometimes, to be fair, varied results, they still seem to be placed inside a separate category to others, that the powers that decide such things are happy to place Jeff Waters and the band into the realms of the often overlooked and forgotten.

Annihilator, For The Demented. Album Review. full post

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

Vile Assembly, Fattened By The Horrors Of War. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Anarchy and Punk are rarely subtle when it comes to beating the backside of oppression and misplaced comfortable tyranny, the cane is flexed, the motion swift and like a growl from the stage, the meaning is clear. It might not always get the result it is searching for but it does leave an impression, large, scalding and full of rebuke, on the corpulent, the ill of compassion and those that profiteer on the bodies of those that die by the bullet, the bomb and the propaganda

Vile Assembly, Fattened By The Horrors Of War. Album Review. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Saturday Night: Drowned Out Firework.

 

Didn’t we

have a grand day out,

just you and I, hiding

in the shadow of the cinema glare,

a motion picture about nothing

at all and then a play,

after a hastily eaten meal,

that signified the roar

and enthusiastic, spontaneous applause

of the crowd

thankful that the rain

had spoiled a thousand bonfire nights.

 

Ian D. Hall 2017

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Samantha Fish, Belle Of The West. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Even in the current political and social climate it is easy to fall in love with America; there is something beautiful, a passion that unifies in the most unexpected places and raises the ghosts of all that once passed. This passion does not require a flag to be raised, a declaration of faith with hand on heart as if stopping from beating to fast from the opinionated wealth and abundance that is there to trick the passer-by into thinking that all is rosy in the garden founded and fought over for centuries. It is though in the spirit of the person, the Belle of the West, that makes America such a proposition of glory.

Samantha Fish, Belle Of The West. Album Review. full post

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

Peter Fergus McClelland, The Turn of the Tide: Songs of the Sea, Coast, Fishing, Rivers, Lovers & Banishment. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The river plays such an important part in our lives that the only surprise is that perhaps we don’t venerate it in song even more than we do. No matter where you live, what county, what city or town, there is a river nearby that has had tales, songs and lyrical beauty bestowed upon it at some time or another. It doesn’t need to be the Thames, the musically enamoured Mersey, the mighty Clyde, the Tyne, the industrious Weir or the Tamar, what matters is that river plays such a role that the musician will find time to give it a moment of life, to capture it forever.

Peter Fergus McClelland, The Turn of the Tide: Songs of the Sea, Coast, Fishing, Rivers, Lovers & Banishment. Album Review. full post

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

John Jenkins, A New York Romance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A romance is something to be treasured, especially one that is hard fought for, arguably more so than the one that was easy, that fell into place and then as the saying goes, they lived happily ever after. It is better to hard won than to be won over with an empty promise, a meaningless gesture; it is the fight that shows others that it was all worth it in the end.

John Jenkins, A New York Romance. Album Review. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)