Category Archives: Music

Two Black Sheep, Coffee & Gin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The historical and social significance of Coffee & Gin cannot be easily dismissed as part of the way the people of Britain lead their lives in the 21st Century; Hogarth’s famous Beer and Gin Lane printing depicting the social ills of Gin Lane is tempered by the 18th Century’s love and seeming respectability of the advancing coffee houses that were springing up all over capital. Yet the two are probably more interlinked than they ever probably were intended to be and the slow death assured by the drinking of foreign Gin is enough to remember the addiction many have to the bean in the century we find ourselves feeding.

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

Devon Allman, Ride Or Die. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are times in the world when the mind starts to think just a little too much, that when all is said and done, the answers and the questions should be seen for what they truly are, just the musings of a child like race who doesn’t really get the point of life. They have every concept of genetically inherited flight or fight but they have no grasp of the ambition of the idea of Ride Or Die.

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

Red Butler, Nothing To Lose. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When there is Nothing To Lose there is always the thought that there is everything to win, something monumental to gain, too secure the true self revealed in the fight that life throws at you in the hope that you will rise above the negative.

Nothing To Lose, everything to gain and Red Butler once more show that having been Freedom Bound, they have kept the cynics, the intolerable pessimists and the down at heel detractors at bay by producing an album of absolute quality and music that is sensitive, commanding and aims straight like an arrow for the subject, piercing the formidable enemy’s armour and causing wound after wound to be opened.

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

Sophie Ramsay, The Seas Between Us. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It often only takes a gentle reminder, the sway of a musician’s performance to remember what is deep in your bones and in your soul, that the infectious delight they spread by performing music that is heritage, a long and distinguished inheritance that outweighs anything that comes from the banal and repetitively dull, is something that will stir the conscious and play havoc with the heart.

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

Airbourne, Breakin’ Outta Hell. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The feeling is either force fed into you or if you are fortunate then it is Airborne, it comes down from seemingly above, like the nectar of the gods, the music infecting you in the only way that Rock and Roll, the heaviness in the metal, should or can, with no fighting the inevitable, through the medium of the largest, most clearest speaker and with overflowing hope in your heart that a band can match the likes of AC/DC in their heyday or at least divert your attention from the faltering stutter that the genre persists in having in Britain and America; a group that can be seen visibly seen and audibly Breakin’ Outta Hell.

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

King King, Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a huge difference between being ready for the studio and being born for the stage, one can thrill the senses, the other washes over them, taking them on a ride that stops the heart, makes it require the sweet recovery of a frontman versed in the knowledge that live music is not about treating the symptom but improving the soul to live and cheer the sound from the wooden stage.

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(448 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Operation: Mindcrime, Resurrection. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating * * *

It is a feeling of bewilderment, of pained intrigue to find an album that can leave you with mood of utter calm when what you know the prescription should have supplied was rage, anger at the system and the sense of incredulous outrage. It is the calm that comes after the storm and everything is hiding away, barely poking its nose out to sniff for any electrical residue that might be lurking in the mist.

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(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Marillion, F.E.A.R (Fuck Everyone And Run). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Beware the anger of a patient man, don’t let his gentle voice, melodious, gentle and at all times spiritual speech, his wonderment of expression, fool you, don’t be deceived by the nature of the man because when he is angry, when he finally snaps and decides to come out fighting, that is the greatest wrath of them all and you can either batten down the hatches, join him in his fury or Fuck Everybody And Run.

Marillion, F.E.A.R (Fuck Everyone And Run). Album Review. full post

(533 words, 1 image, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

The Changing Room, Names On A Wall. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Arguably Cornwall is a county that is only attached to England by two miles of land, a shared sense of love for the seas that surround the British Isles and the high water mark of the River Tamar. The people are proud of their heritage as being seen as part of a Celtic tribe and for many the county has for too long been asleep, like some land expanse dressed in the finery of the princess Sleeping Beauty, only now really starting to have its voice heard as national debate inscribes itself deep in the heart of memory and long forgotten secrets.

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(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)