Category Archives: Music

Mike Grogan, Too Many Ghosts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you look back on your life so far is there a period which defines you more, shakes your belief in your ability to the point where spectres howl in unison, where they find ways to ridicule even the greatest of accomplishments, because of that every day may seem like a struggle to find the joy that is wrapped up in between the hours, Too Many Ghosts may sap the mood but in Mike Grogan’s world they are a boon and a bewitching addition to the music collection.

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(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

The Outsiders UK, Everything’s Gone Vintage. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the modern world it could be said that we have no mystique left, that we are all guilty in some way or another of sharing too much about ourselves in the digital spectrum, that people now not only see us naked physically but also uncovered in our thoughts also; the inhibitions banished to the social network winds and no longer we stand as anything but skin, bone and dissected illusion.

The Outsiders UK, Everything’s Gone Vintage. Album Review. full post

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

AJ & The Collectives, Split Personalities. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To embrace the words of a different culture is to allow yourself to feel human and not wallow in the same rut, the same catastrophic spell that stagnates and festers till there is nothing but boredom and mischief in the heart. To embrace a different side to the story, does not mean you have abandoned your own tale but it is the hope that every so often something from another point of view will create even more understanding in your heart.

AJ & The Collectives, Split Personalities. Album Review. full post

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

Bob Cheevers, Fifty Years. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Any anniversary is worth celebrating, in a world where from one day to the next the transient nature of life sees people move on, move away, forget a project, forget the things they once loved, to even get to a year in the same place, offering the same vision and clarity is to be celebrated hard. When that vision has been illuminating minds for fifty years, when it has been thrilling, tantalising and making hearts break and fall in love for that amount of time, then celebration is not enough, it is a memorial, a commemoration of all that is good in the world.

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

Ghost Avenue, Impact. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The future is not written and yet every possible scenario that could plague humanity has been played out, thought of, given so much consideration by experts and the layman that if disaster did find its way into the rolling news there would be many who would shrug their shoulders and carry on digging a hole, avoiding all possible means of Impact.

Ghost Avenue, Impact. Album Review. full post

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

The Darker My Horizon, Acquiesce. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Darker My Horizon, the clearer and lighter the past seems, without the benefit of hindsight, without the ability to see what that future brings, the more it is shrouded in a thick veil of mist. Impossible to perceive what you might be doing in two years time and yet in full glorious Technicolor you can sit back and transport yourself a decade and relive an emotion that may have been as powerful as a seismic shock across a continent, such is the power of Time and it is the kick in the fat underbelly of those who cannot see beyond their own reluctance just how timely the band’s album Acquiesce is.

The Darker My Horizon, Acquiesce. Album Review. full post

(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Raphael Doyle, Never Closer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Time is nothing more than illusion, something purposely created by humanity to make sure we find ways of being productive and marking the hours between dawn and dusk so that the darkness of night has something a little more concrete to hang onto, to remind us to get something down on paper that is tangible and worth leaving for the next generation.

Raphael Doyle, Never Closer. Album Review. full post

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

Burnt Out Wreck, Swallow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To see the wreck on the shoreline, fire blazing through its hull, the explosion waiting to happen as the flames get nearer to the gunpowder and the bottles of premium whisky, the mast holding up resolutely and with pride; sometimes you just have to Swallow the inevitable and move back a few feet to take in the bigger picture, the dynamite of Rock that is about to shatter and pulverise the masses into submission; this is exactly what life is for, making the Rock move, to see the Burnt Out Wreck blaze in fury and fire, nothing comes close to excitement as this.

Burnt Out Wreck, Swallow. Album Review. full post

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

Joel Gion, Tomorrow. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Tomorrow never comes, for many the possibility of it being worse than the day they have just lived through is enough to make sure the alarm clock never rings, that the year to come could be as cloudy as the one that just faded with nightmare stealth into the past. Tomorrow though should be viewed with a sense of optimism, with a sense of candour and hope and one that no matter what is the stepping stone to being able to breathe easily.

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(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

John Cee Stannard & Blues Horizon, To The River. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is almost nothing that can touch the feeling of the unhappy or dejected cry in the dark that is wrapped in the tune of the unforgiving and delighted jig; the dichotomy of two states of mind that we find ourselves in when something upsets us but we know it is for the greater good that it happens.

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