Category Archives: Music

The Pigeon Detectives, Broken Glances. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The glances from strangers, the looks that you cannot decipher but hope perhaps they are of interest, a secret passion or at the very least not ones that are wondering who got you dressed that morning, who are trying to place you into the realms of those they would avoid at a party or some sort of cruel unseen jibe that is locked in their heads till they get to the office. It is in those fleeting glimpses that we are given an insight into how others view us; sometimes it can be the best feeling in the world, at others it can leave you lower than the water table in a Dead Sea spa and resort.

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

Nikki Loy, Pivotal. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Life is arguably worthless, non-essential if you at some point you are not doing something that makes you happy, fundamentally pleased to have lived; it could be the smallest, most minute part of your day but it must be there to give you the absolute pleasure, the reason that all of this universal insanity must make sense, to be the Pivotal reason we are here, to make some kind of statement about the art we love.

Nikki Loy, Pivotal. Album Review. full post

(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Andrew Combs, Canyons Of My Mind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is something deeply satisfying about taking in the music of Andrew Combs, it is the equivalent of standing in a deserted forest, the only company the small myriad of creatures that poke their noses into the equation of natural balance, and feeling the steady drops of rain splash around you. The storm is not violent, just a cool refreshing shower of rain after a few weeks of drought; you cannot help but stand in the middle of it all, the heady mixture of a instinctive sound and the steady heart beat of a life being soothed of all its modern stress, the toxins and the pollution all calm and dissipated.

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(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Jenn & Laura Beth, Bound. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Where you Bound, to not know the journey ahead is to live in a perpetual state of wandering and hope, hope that someone might give you a purpose, hope that eventually everything will work out and in the end be seen as having been a success; occasionally this works, this is by product of the Universe being benevolent and not down to being able to leap the hurdles placed infront of you without clipping your heels.

Jenn & Laura Beth, Bound. Album Review. full post

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

SixStringNoise, Cold Damn Season. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of electricity, of power humming in a variable pitch of good and the beautiful is always at odds with the thought that we could be living in a Cold Damn Season, not one caused by weather or the universal atmosphere but the static that grows and festers when nations collide, when families are at war or when governments start to alienate certain sections of society; a cold war, a cold front, all can be heated and charged within a moment’s notice, within the pause for breath and one that SixStringNoise fully grasp in their tremendous album Cold Damn Season.

SixStringNoise, Cold Damn Season. Album Review. full post

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

Michael Rattray, Silent Battles. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Not every battle leaves scars on the outside, the visible marks of having been on the wrong side of the swords cutting edge, the evidence of having gone to war with life and only realising at towards the bitter end that life has an experienced ally in Time and neither of them give any quarter or sympathy as they open your skin with the thick blade and let the scar tissue form.

Michael Rattray, Silent Battles. E.P. Review. full post

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

Robert Vincent, I’ll Make The Most Of My Sins. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It has been a journey of wonder, one of absolute hope and solid inspiration, not only for the musician but his ever rapidly growing army of appreciators, fans and those who for years have seen the evidence of his personality and incredible wisdom laid down in music form. For Robert Vincent making the most of his talent and his virtues is a base, a high marker in which he will not fall, yet beyond that it is the music that is king and one in which you can almost hear him argue passionately, “I’ll Make The Most Of My Sins.”

Robert Vincent, I’ll Make The Most Of My Sins. Album Review. full post

(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Ezio, Daylight Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is mystery far beyond our vision, our minds forever searching for something tangible to believe in, something that cannot be ridiculed by detractors, that cannot be explained away as the fleeting glimpse of fancy or hidden away from plain sight; the unexpected is beautiful and must be observed and cherished as much as the delight in a Daylight Moon.

Ezio, Daylight Moon. Album Review. full post

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

Hegarty, I Only Dream. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To talk of dreams to someone can be the breaking point in the conversation, the sudden roll of eyes and the distant yawn; all this because don’t want to be bogged down in the subject of the subconscious, yet perhaps we should take stock occasionally and if not listen to others and try to understand them psychologically, at least have a deeper resonance with our own soul. Dreams are part of us, it helps us make sense of the insanity of time and our place in it.

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

Jupiter Falls, Faces In The Sand Part One. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To come across Jupiter Falls was to open yourself up to the unknown revelation, the reveal of the heavy pound was enough to spark interest, to feel the pulse was to fall in love, now as the band from Leeds open up their souls, as they rip open the bleeding metal once in their new album, Faces In The Sand Part One. The ravaging nature of desire is in absolute full flow; it is call of the wild, of the raw and the passionate that makes the group one of the most dynamic and interesting British metal bands to hurl themselves at the genre in some time.

Jupiter Falls, Faces In The Sand Part One. Album Review. full post

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