Category Archives: Music

Threshold, Legends Of The Shires. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


Confidence is a complex feeling, too much and you can come across as arrogant, self absorbed and even out of touch for the others around you to truly grasp; not enough belief and you might come off as dull, the sacrilage of having no charisma in the world of art and artistry is more heinous than forgetting your lines, of bowing to a faded king in an overpriced venue when the next generation is scraping by with good wishes and likes on social media. Confidence is not pride, it is not arrogance; it is just a state of mind that gets the canvas painted, the sonnet polished and the song remembered.

Threshold, Legends Of The Shires. Album Review. full post

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

Mollie Marriott, Truth Is A Wolf. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are some artists who give off the impression that they are the epitome of the wolf, an easy guise to adopt in a world which seeks out the characteristics of such an animal, mean, moody and magnificent, loyal and one that will stop at nothing till the quarry has been tracked down and exhausted. We celebrate such attributes because they are the rock staple, the never say quit attitude, the song they sing is both terrifying and beautiful; sometimes though we listen to the wrong song and we find that the wolf we have embraced is actually covered in wool,

Mollie Marriott, Truth Is A Wolf. Album Review. full post

(438 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Cary Balsano, Horizon. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are often too concerned with looking at the lives of others, of commenting on their situation, the way they act in a given moment, their dress sense, their beliefs and we make fun of them, we say we are giving them advice, when all we are doing is looking at the steps in front of us and not liking our own perceived path. To hold their hand and not comment on their lives is improve our own vision; that you can both look to the Horizon and witness that it is a truth worth clinging to.

Cary Balsano, Horizon. Single Review. full post

(357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Lotte Kestner, Off White. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nothing is truly pure, nothing is as lily white as people think, there is always a trace or a tint of impurity in even the most honest of actions and the simplest of deeds; for in the Off White comes truth and sanctuary, the harbour safe from invasion because it is more demanding to storm than those naturally guarded and tough to break down.

Lotte Kestner, Off White. Album Review. full post

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

Queens Of The Stone Age, Villains. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Devil may have your back but who is leading you by the hand, sometimes it is hard to know who the real Villains are.

The return of Queens of The Stone Age to forefront of rock always seems assured, the years in between are inconsequential, they are just the time served to truly relish in the works by the band. Some might call it criminal to spend so far away from the limelight, the constant need of some fans, of any group or solo artist to have a continuous grip of the soul of their favourite performer; however the time spent away is always well spent in a group of the magnitude of Queens of The Stone Age. The Villains and the heroes of the peace always have always been on the same side, they just utilise their time differently.

Queens Of The Stone Age, Villains. Album Review. full post

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

Donald Black, Bho m’ Chridhe (From My Heart). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Arguably the biggest crime against art is not that committed by the sneering critic, by the one who feels it is their duty to act like a frustrated and embittered teacher, to admonish anyone who has the heart to play and create something beautiful and ever-lasting. It is not the critic who commits the crime, it is the performer when they don’t play with the passion injected into them with the skill they have been blessed with.

Donald Black, Bho m’ Chridhe (From My Heart). Album Review. full post

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

Ian Felice, In The Kingdom Of Dreams. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are very few emotions that can top the feeling of blissful melancholy that weeps and twists through the body and the mind; anger has its place, sadness its time, happiness is always far too fleeting to be substantial, and fear is only there to control you, rise above that particular beast and courage falls into place.

Melancholy is deep, it resides perhaps in between states, between reflectively joyful and realistic downbeat, it is the medium and the gravity of all and one that arguably resides most powerfully In The Kingdom of Dreams.

Ian Felice, In The Kingdom Of Dreams. Album Review. full post

(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Darrel Treece-Birch, Healing Touch. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is no fear that we cannot overcome, there is no sense of failure that cannot be found and be shaken out of its apathy and allow those under its oppression to breathe once more; all it requires is a Healing Touch.

The inner conflict we face is heightened by the feeling that we have lost our way with who we really are. It could be argued that we are nothing but a paycheck waiting to happen, a transfer between the hope of a one night stand with friends doing all the pursuits of pleasure and laughter we want to achieve, and the system that binds us, the threads that pull at us, keeping us down, making sure we don’t rise off the Earth; some call it gravity, perhaps a better word would be despair.

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

Beaumont, Honestly. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Honesty is a virtue, not many people can pull it off with sincerity or without the guilt riding along on its coat tails, pulling back the emotions and looking openness in the eye; for many, honesty is bordering on cruel, they wrap it up in sentiments of the well worn phrase “I don’t sugar coat my words” or “I tell it how it is”, without even giving a thought to how the other person might react. Honesty is a virtue, but being unkind and purposely vicious in the same sentence is the most despicable of acts.

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(527 words, 1 image, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Steve Hill, Solo Recordings: Volume 3. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is surely impossible to dislike anything that come from Canada, almost an unwritten law that states across the rest of the world that the people north of the longest undefended border in the world are just to be adored, coveted, admired and looked up to; for how often do you come across anybody with Canada in their hearts and on their sleeves that isn’t just amongst the most artistically free and bewitching of entertainers and thinkers.

Steve Hill, Solo Recordings: Volume 3. Album Review. full post

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