Category Archives: Music

Kate Grom, Heroine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all know someone that we have met upon the way that was just leaving to find were they truly belonged in the world, they had packed their bags and gone to a place where they knew no one, not a single soul, didn’t perhaps know the customs, the language or the day they might return. In men it is arguable that it is perhaps to be expected, we nod approvingly at the way they defy convention and wish that our own children would take the plunge and seek adventure.

Kate Grom, Heroine. Album Review. full post

(406 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Diana Rising, Stars Can’t Shine Without Darkness. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The hunt is on when one of the goddesses can be seen, when the daughter of Jupiter is virtuous but can never claim to have been tempted, then shall Diana rise and in her daylight it shall be thought of that the Stars Can’t Shine Without Darkness. 

Diana Rising, Stars Can’t Shine Without Darkness. Album Review. full post

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

Bellevue Rendeezvous, While Rome Burns. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The world is always teetering on the edge of a collapse, governed by a set of rules in which nobody truly understands or has the time to digest beyond their own growing sense of anger and insecurity; the rules always say that that the rare should be a commodity worth waiting a life time for, that While Rome Burns, fiddle and play on Nyckelharpa as much as possible, for Time might never allow you a glimpse of something impressive again.

Bellevue Rendeezvous, While Rome Burns. Album Review. full post

(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Jump In My Igloo. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a significant anniversary due, one that really changed the way Liverpool thought about its four favourite sons, in the way perhaps the British music was thought of, and as bands such Pink Floyd, who would emerge from the studio with the debut album later that summer, The Who, the epitome at the time of Mod culture would soon release the Rock Opera  Tommy and arguably one of the most underrated bands of the time, The Small Faces, begun their journey that would lead to the beguiling Odgen’s Nut Gone Flake.

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Jump In My Igloo. Single Review. full post

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

Dan Patlansky, Sonnova Faith. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You got to have faith, it doesn’t matter what form it takes, whether it is in the eye of a merciful deity or the extremes of a personal thought and drive, faith in what we do, in how we present it and how it will be seen by others is the drive that separates us from the those willing to knock everyone around them down just to see them suffer in the dark alongside them.

Dan Patlansky, Sonnova Faith. Single Review. full post

(356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

David Hershaw & Sandie Forbes, Here Comes Tomorrow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The story must have a beat to it, it must have the ability to make that come to me and click your fingers noise in your head or tap your fingers on the nearest inanimate object till the lady on the bus gives you sharp eyed look of annoyance, and even then the smile must continue, for the beat is everything that the story means to convey.

David Hershaw & Sandie Forbes, Here Comes Tomorrow. Album Review. full post

(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

ghUSa, Öswedeme. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is time to run up the flags and deck the venues with the loud and the insanely gifted, to hark the words of the doomsayers and dismiss them as easily as swatting a fly drunk on White Lightning or showing the door to the obnoxious and disrespectful; the party can once again flow with the sound of Death Metal emanating from the Scandinavian lands of ice, lakes and myths and ghUSa.

ghUSa, Öswedeme. Album Review. full post

(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

The Bordellos, Underground Tape Vol 6. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To rely on the world being both benevolent and attention-grabbing is too ask whether it is right to leave the nuclear button in the hands of six month old, the baby may look cute but you know at some point that object in its young paw is going to be pressed and somewhere over the horizon a rather big flash is going to appear.

The Bordellos, Underground Tape Vol 6. E.P. Review. full post

(347 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Roberto Diana, Raighes Vol 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is an island in which so many seem to miss out on when exploring Southern Europe, the usual tourist traps of Rome, Barcelona, Naples, Valetta, all cities that bask within the Mediterranean sunshine and the feeling of the exotic, all play host not only to the physical but to the dreamers and the history pursuers.

Roberto Diana, Raighes Vol 2. Album Review. full post

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

Sheila K. Cameron, Past Loves. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Love is a very strange beast, we think back with fondness at those that have taken us for granted, we adore the rose tinted glasses we wear when we think of those that have let us down and we despair at the thought of those that we have left in search perhaps of a greener field or those that left because they could not bear us; modern love is all the rage but Past Loves are the ghosts that spur us on and define our actions in the present.

Sheila K. Cameron, Past Loves. Album Review. full post

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