Category Archives: Music

Ewan McLennan And George Monbiot, Breaking The Spell Of Loneliness. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Humanity is at a tipping point; its ability to interact with each other, share ideals and ideas is on the verge of being only able to communicated via a short snappy message or intolerant, perhaps indecipherable text. As a species we have never been so connected, the whole world waits for the next communiqué with baited breath, yet we somehow have become lonely, lost and isolated in a sea of electronics and the floundering realisation that something drastically has gone wrong with society. It might take a generation to solve but somehow we need to be seen to be Breaking The Spell Of Loneliness.

Ewan McLennan And George Monbiot, Breaking The Spell Of Loneliness. Album Review. full post

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

Carol Fieldhouse, Linen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Whilst it is quite right that the young have ambition and are granted every opportunity to fulfil their dreams, it should not be expected that those to whom 30 is but a distant dream be told to lay back and forget their own personal goals and silence the scream of desire and determination which comes from wanting to pursue their guiding aim in life. It make take time but everybody eventually should be able to say, should they wish too, they created something that will last beyond their time.

Carol Fieldhouse, Linen. Album Review. full post

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

Safir Nòu, Groundless. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If your one of those people that cannot under any circumstances feel as though you have been hypnotised, that being pulled in a certain direction whilst the mind slowly is entranced and made to see beyond the limited boundaries imposed by yourself, it is entirely possible that you have been listening to the wrong kind of music or the dishonesty of life too much.

Safir Nòu, Groundless. Album Review. full post

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

John Chatterton, Rest In Place. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To create poetry without a lyric is perhaps the hardest lesson to master; to place trust in each note without the guiding spectre a hand in which to offer anything like a suggestion, a hint or even a warning of the possible intimate nature of the song, is simply a thrill for the palate and makes the brain work overtime as it concocts its own special melody.

John Chatterton, Rest In Place. Single Review. full post

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

John Jenkins, Trains. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In the world of art, in whatever shape or form it should take, the brave, the courageous and those that dare stare into the face of the oncoming light are always those that should be highly prized. For some, just playing a guitar, penning an verse or putting a half made bed together and throwing a little bit of rubbish into the sleeping arena is enough to constitute a day well spent, that is fine, each to their own but it is like comparing The Orient Express to the coach pulled monstrosities that inhabit the tracks of Britain today, anything can be a train but it takes class and passion to be in a special group of Trains.

John Jenkins, Trains. Album Review. full post

(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

King 810, La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can have as many one sided chats with the almighty as you want but in the end, as many have found to their cost throughout the centuries, She might not or cannot be bothered, to answer back. You only have to look at some of the real hardships faced in the world, the displacement, the cities sacrificed and those with too many loose morals with the fingers on the cull switch to understand that having a conversation with god is about as useful as striking up a discussion with Death.

King 810, La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God. Album Review. full post

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

Ian Hunter & The Rant Band, Fingers Crossed. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Life is a lottery, a moment in which when your time to shine is perhaps over, you slink back into the shadows and let the next generation have their say; not exactly, not ever, if the message is strong, if the words and the ideals are still relevant then no matter the time in that person’s life, the yardstick in which their years as an ambassador, as a rebel with a cause, is what matters. For Ian Hunter & The Rant Band, Fingers Crossed, they will forever be the ambassador and the rebel, the vanguards of the good fight of the eternal battle against the humdrum and the tediously packaged.

Ian Hunter & The Rant Band, Fingers Crossed. Album Review. full post

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

Shakin’ Stevens, Echoes Of Our Times. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If it is your friends that shape you as you stride the path ahead, then it has to be your family that make you what you are, you may not realise it, you may not even care, but it is your blood that has bought you to this point in time and the stories of your ancestors are just as, if not more important that your own. It is a realisation that Shakin’ Stevens has found and played within the realm of his new album, the enjoyable, the pleasurable and unrelenting Echoes Of Our Times.

Shakin’ Stevens, Echoes Of Our Times. Album Review. full post

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

Mason Summit, Gunpowder Tracks. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is no point owning a book if you are only ever going to read one chapter at random, if you are going to take one arbitrary sentence and turn it into a mantra for living and believe that it will solve all humanity’s ills and negative aspects; to truly understand the author you have to read the whole thing, you must listen to their words and decipher them, live them fully and drive onto the biggest peak, the largest summit you can master.

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Nth Ascension, In Fine Initium. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Progressive Rock in all its glory, all its different shades of colour and often praise worthy offerings, is thankfully still able to command an interest of immense proportions, the old guard with their lyrical genius, of the use of the English language and their seemingly inexhaustible supply of random time signatures, they never truly went away. They were joined when the music world needed them most, by the new breed, the conquerors of the new century and in all honesty the Time has just swept by in an orgy of Progressive Heaven.

Nth Ascension, In Fine Initium. Album Review. full post

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)