Category Archives: Music

Beth Hart, Fire On The Floor. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The act of sensuality is not lost, it has not become driven out into the cold and left to starve in a parking lot somewhere off the Pacific Coast Highway, shrouded by the deep greens and ambers of trees spoiling for a fight against the depths of a winter to come, sensuality is always around, it just has been overshadowed by the unremarkable and insidious. It takes a rock star of breath-taking quality to break through the over sexualised hype, a musician of conviction whose voice is the calling card to have lyrics gush in embarrassment at the attention they receive.

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(505 words, 1 image, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Bad Touch, Truth Be Told. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Therapy comes in all shapes and sizes, all manners and means, sometimes it is the smallest expression of gratitude that makes the difference to the situation, that the signal from a snare and the hum of a microphone can repair the damage done in life; it might seem a moment of Bad Touch but Truth Be Told, music is arguably the most therapeutic mechanism on the planet.

Bad Touch, Truth Be Told. Album Review. full post

(374 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Slow Show, Dream Darling. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The well seasoned traveller, regardless of whether they have gone in search of inspiration, truth or melancholic anarchy or if they have stayed at home, allowing their mind to imagine the world in a perfect image, their own smile lighting up a million street lamps as their mind’s eye sees the ruins of once great cities or the flowering of new hope. All of these adventures are powered by the Dream Darling, the mordant and the biting, the homely and the gentle tones of other people’s voices scurrying around inside their heads, leading them on, leading them astray and always insisting that the reverie continues.

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

Beans On Toast, A Spanner In The Works. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * **

The following of a cult can be considered dangerous, a precarious passion to indulge your time within and one that is never truly advised and yet the cult figure, the difference in the fresh and the out of date is something that always appeals. The prospect of finding the stirring beginnings of another like minded Ian Dury, in whatever form, is enough to prick the ears back and listen with a wry smile at the dry wit on hand; in Beans on Toast’s new album, A Spanner In The Works, that appeal of the unusual and anti- trendy is sublime and an alternative falling for.

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

Gary Maginnis & The Like, Guiding Light. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The search for the light is never ending, it takes up so much of our time on Earth that we can blink and miss the signal to start our own lives, rummage around our own personal lighthouse and make sure all the boats on the distant waters are safe from the harm of the rocks we place around them. The Guiding Light is the principal of safety and the escort who will lead you into the protected hands of trustworthy, it is a principle that Gary Maginnis & The Like hold dear and with dependable cool.

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(338 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Daniel Land, In Love With A Ghost. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The sound of the city is one that can drive some to utter distraction, painfully eating away at the muscles in the ear, the grind of the buildings as they sway against the concrete underbelly and bedrock, an ache that never goes away. Yet if you listen without replying, if you take in the scale of the hive of activity, regardless of the situation you find yourself in the road and pavement fort and hiding place, there is a sense of poetry to be heard, the poetic demeanour that comes with every screeching horn, every verbal onslaught from shops and markets and the rumble of the Earth as it echoes the sound for miles around.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

The Changing Room, Picking Up The Pieces. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There will always come a time when the forces of will that conspire against every human to deal with their innermost anguish and regret will compel them to be seen to be Picking Up The Pieces, to put together the jigsaw of life that breaks apart, that can harm, can damage but ultimately can be, with hope, a new beginning, a new chapter in which to thrive.

The Changing Room, Picking Up The Pieces. Album Review. full post

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

Lyndsey Gillett, Delicate. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Delicate by name, hardy by nature, Lyndsey Gillett covers the bases with her latest song of the elusive and seemingly fragile and yet within the framework of the song, within the power that leads you by the hand into a realm, a world of the faint and the tantalising, there is no room, no hidden crack in which Delicate becomes flimsy, out of control or desperately insubstantial; this is the voice of the gracefully robust and the balanced. Delicate by name but as tough as a Chicago Cubs fan doggedly hanging onto the possibility of seeing their team finally making the World Series one year in their lifetime.

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(340 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Will Varley, Kingsdown Sundown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The world has not just gone mad, it is barely holding on to its fragile sanity, the cracks have well and truly appeared and there are many to whom the natural symbiosis of humanity and compassion has taken leave, they shout as all tyrants do of conquer and borders but they have no idea of the history in which they dismantle, of the destruction wrought in their name and yet they keep demanding to have the country or their planet back.

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

Methera, Vortex. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

To look into the Vortex is perhaps to either suffer the ensuing madness of the Universe or to see the pattern of the daring, the beautiful and the artful. Either state of mind is to know that there are forces out there that can be manipulated, can be staged and controlled but they can never be as celebrated or admired in the same way, they are swirls of artistry and beauty and ones that capture the imagination to its fullest.

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