Category Archives: Music

The One Hundred, Chaos + Bliss. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Let the heat kick in, for The One Hundred have encountered Chaos + Bliss in the air and in the mind set of those politicians, those seeking power who are willing to cause it in the name of advancement and arguably profit.

Chaos though, in the hands of the oppressed and the put down is the anger in which the ordinary person can fight back and bliss is the welcome relief in which the heart can feel the irregular beat of tyranny, dissolve and the torment pass. Two sides of the same coin but one steeped in the rhythm of subjugation, the other the easing of domination by rhyme and reason; let the heat kick in because The One Hundred have got it sussed.

The One Hundred, Chaos + Bliss. Album Review. full post

(378 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Chris Tavener, Apocalypse Prediction. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Satire is not dead, it hasn’t even been resting, it has just had reached a saturation point because politics and the human race have done such a great job in spoofing itself, and for a reasonably intelligent species, for a group of immensely able naked apes, we have immense perversity in being able to doubt our own existence and predict our own downfall at the hands of others as if we still believe in the Gods of old.

Chris Tavener, Apocalypse Prediction. Single Review. full post

(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Acadian Driftwood, Rain Falling In. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Tempest may call out, the fire and brimstone of the age may dedicate itself to wiping out all you knew and all that was to come but to see the Rain Falling In, to see it drip in tandem with the seconds on a stopwatch or cascade like a river in a flood plain but through the very joists and foundations of your home or your house, is to understand that nature is always going to win, that nature in all its fury and positivity is to be adored and not stifled.

Acadian Driftwood, Rain Falling In. Single Review. full post

(331 words, 1 image, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

London Grammar, Truth Is A Beautiful Thing. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If You Wait provided a glimpse it seems at what London Grammar could show to the world, an album that rightly had the group propelled out of the lecture halls of University and into the serious consideration of many a music fan’s dearest desire. A group to whom the meaning of substantial and forceful was to become a huge compliment and whilst the band were in their infancy, there was huge hope that the trio would eventually be heavyweights; a case of very soon rather than later.

London Grammar, Truth Is A Beautiful Thing. Album Review. full post

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

Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If the world cannot have Fleetwood Mac, then there is always at least Fleetwood Mac in one form or another and one of the reasons that the band name endures, touches the hearts of the vast majority who have ever heard the group across all the incarnations and different styles, is arguably down to the soul of Lindsey Buckingham. Regardless of whether on his own in the beguiling Seeds We Sow from 2011, across time with Stevie Nicks or in the passion that the classic line up of Fleetwood Mac bring together, the sense of magic and musical accomplishment, there is always Lindsey Buckingham, there is always Fleetwood Mac.

Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie, Album Review. full post

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

Coast, Windmills In The Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is surely to be considered a sense of understanding that artists of any creed or background are shaped not only by what they see happen in the day, the wave crashing against the reluctant rock; the anarchy in someone’s eyes when they pay for an item in the shop in pennies. They are shaped by their environment, they inhabit the rock that is pounded by the wave and feel the small myriad of tiny creatures that scurry in the pools formed, they are the penny dropped with sarcasm into the palm of a harassed shop worker; in their vision they see the Coast and the till as one.

Coast, Windmills In The Sky. Album Review. full post

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

Secret Colours, Dream Dream. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you dream, make sure it is every colour available, don’t settle for black and white and don’t let anything but a magical experience take you down in the hands of Morpheus willingly or without a fight, to dream is to be thankful, to Dream Dream well that is a case of allowing the brain to undergo some sort of state where metamorphosis reigns supreme.

Secret Colours, Dream Dream. Album Review. full post

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

The Black Watch, The Gospel According To John. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

From whence you came is but where you shall return, in the case of L.A. based band The Black Watch, the line in between the two is so strong, so distinct that it sends out its own pulse. It gives and receives the punches as if it had got between the Ice Hockey players of Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings in a match which decided arguably the finest boxer on skates, so well that it comes away without being either bloodied or bruised and is testified with honour in The Gospel According To John.

The Black Watch, The Gospel According To John. Album Review. full post

(369 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Amerikana. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a reason why bands keep coming back to the world of the Psychedelic, of the rebellion that encompasses both mind and spirit, it is not in the fashionable or the chic, the often abhorrently trendy, it is because at the end of it all, at the closing down of every argument and rebuttal, it just sounds convincing and flawlessly cool.

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Amerikana. Album Review. full post

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

Sheila K Cameron, Kiss Deep And The Missing Beat. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You don’t have to pucker the lips in order to Kiss Deep, you only have touch someone with your mind, your humour and your lust for life in order to reach them in a way that no amount of amorous thought can achieve; to feel the embrace of another’s words is not just a measure for good, it is the affirmation of what you believe more than anything, to be true.

Sheila K Cameron, Kiss Deep And The Missing Beat. Album Review. full post

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