Category Archives: Music

The Jigantics, Seconds Out. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If the listener were to find that they were lost in revere whilst listening to The Jigantics’ debut album Daisy Roots, then in the succumbing to love that they will ultimately find in the band’s new album, Seconds Out, they will be nowhere to be found. All maps pointing the way out of the musical maze will be taken from them at the widening gap of the start and any chance of discovering the single route that leads from point A to point B, locked away inside the melody, notes and lyrical genius and placed under a small rock somewhere in the middle of the maze.

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(478 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Last Scout, Dust N Bone. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

For as long as there is war there will be art made about it, regardless of the genre, the form or the artistic content, there will always the reflection of what the destruction force of war can do to the soul and to those caught in the cross fire. It is a genre explored with grace and style by The Last Scout and one that catches the lump in the back of your throat unawares and off guard, for Dust N Bone is a song that just knows where to hold you, where to push you off balance and when to catch you before you hit the ground.

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

Sari Schorr & The Engine Room, A Force Of Nature. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Momentum is unavoidable when a touch of compelling energy streaks across the night sky and burns with fire, rage and beauty. It is a moment to behold, perhaps in awe, certainly in inspiration and one that when remembered in the dead of night, like a fireball, a streak of the Cosmos hurtling towards the sun, is ablaze with glory and redemption.

It is in the thought of the night sky, the everlasting and the thrust of musical experience that Sari Schorr & The Engine Room become A Force of Nature within, that they radiate a staggering belief despite all the odds that were stacked against them is impressive and very cool.

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(456 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sheila K. Cameron, More Like A River Than A Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is the voice, the spoken word narrative that entwines itself between the songs on the More Like A River Than A Road mini album by Sheila K. Cameron, that brings out the sparkle in the recording. The pleasure of the songs is enormous but there is something about the spoken word employed to very decent effect by Ms. Cameron that suggests the music is only half the tale, that the grip on the attention of the listener is enhanced by the monologue that weaves like a stream through fields and pastures in the ceaseless search for the ocean.

Sheila K. Cameron, More Like A River Than A Road. Album Review. full post

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

Hannah James, Jigdoll. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Like all good journeys, Jigdoll starts with a kind of hush, the shadow of least expectancy and the haunting breath in the dark, the silence growing till finally the realisation hits home that something nurtured by the elements is about to be unleashed. Like the island at the centre of the world in The Tempest, it is a world populated by the unknown and the spectral, of the rising swell and the phantom cries of nature berating and beating its heart in time to the passing of each moment on the album.

Hannah James, Jigdoll. Album Review. full post

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

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Brown Paper Bag. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To say that Rob Clarke And The Wooltones have a gift for making a perfect pop song is to underestimate the clarity and spirit they bring to Liverpool’s all encompassing scene and to the wider world in which they so gracefully inhabit.

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

Wire & Wool. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Never forget your roots, that place in life in which you found the necessary sustenance in which to nurture your soul and your feeling for your place within the world, those roots are important, for not only do they inspire you, they also motivate and enthuse your ability to pass on what is best about that place, it gives the sense of continuation needed to make sure such towns and memories never fade and die.

Wire & Wool. Album Review. full post

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

Vola, Inmazes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The pursuit of happiness can be all too consuming and too many believe it lays in the hands of consumerism and the ogre of money, it is a vicious cycle which denies those who have the power of expression at their hands to feel slighted by life and understand that it all comes down to how you navigate the maze, how you avoid the beast in the labyrinth that wants to devour every dream you have.

Vola, Inmazes. Album Review. full post

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

Viola Beach, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The last 12 months have been rotten for the arts, too many greats have passed on and left those of us behind with only memories and faded aspirations; this is no so more true as in the bitterest of moments of when a young and decent band is cruelly taken from their place in the section of future heroes and all because of an accident.

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

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: The Anthology. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

They were the Kings of all they surveyed, the supergroup’s supergroup, along with King Crimson, they could be arguably be seen as the fathers of Progressive Rock and their back catalogue is one that is steeped in the absolute, the pinnacle to which many tried so very hard to match but only a few, Pink Floyd between 73-79, Genesis between Foxtrot and Wind and Wuthering and Supertramp with Crime of the Century and Breakfast and America could equal during the 70s heyday of Progressive Rock.

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(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)