Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
As a society, as a civilisation, we are doing better when it comes to the thought of helping those with any type of mental health issue, yet still we can be judged for not doing enough, that we don’t take seriously the muted cry for help, the culture of public opinion that can be awkwardly poured over by the media and uncared for by the ignorant.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
The state on the edge of the world, from the end of land, one constantly under the pressure of fissures and the prospect of annihilation, one place never too far from the self appointed big one, California is a place in which dreams are hatched, made reality, loved and ultimately destroyed by greed and the need for constant re-invention.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 1/10
Life must be made of peaks and troughs, it cannot be all plain sailing, for where is the joy in steering a boat across a perfectly still body of water if you haven’t learned to manoeuvre it in storm tossed oceans; conversely where is the delight in living underground in the dark if you haven’t experienced a single day in the sunshine.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
In the modern era, finding yourself on the outskirts of the place where you perhaps grew up, the images flashing before you of all you said and done, the friendships made and possibly that withered away, skeletal, unfed, but now with the return just over the hill, full of flesh and possibility again, all these in the modern age don’t seem to have as much pathos attached to them as they once did. Being happy to be Almost Home is somehow reserved for those that never went away.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
We all either want to stick it to the man, the faceless puller of strings, or we wish to laud him, revere the person we wish we could be, normally a much loved father or grandfather, or the one we choose to call dad. Whichever one it is, there will always be the man that sits in our lives.
Ben Morrs, part of the intriguing and alluring Onward Chariots, latest project Ancient Babies sees the much admired musician offer his own perspective on the subject with the compelling and insightful concept E.P. The Man From 1943.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Anonymity does not guarantee secrecy; to be secret you have to hide everything about yourself, your values, your opinions, your life, your inner most and perhaps haunting thoughts. In art, any type of art, it is surely impossible, for the lyrics seep through, the aggression, the hostility, the beauty, the heartache of the words and the aural onslaught that accompanies it; anonymity only brings intrigue and questions.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Even after 40 years at the very top, the small dip in appreciation as a new century dawned and countless hits that have kept the Wilson sisters very much in the public eye, there is no doubting the majesty that comes with a brand new Heart album, the possessive feel that the fingers and the mind takes hold of as they do their best not to crumble or fall into the pit of comparison and judgement to the three distinct areas of Heart’s discography.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Life at times can feel like the worst of imprisonments, the sense that the way out of the situation in which you find yourself is only hindered by the imaginary rope you tie yourself to the chain with or the open doorway that is just a foot out of reach; life ties us down and only art, love and memory can free us from its tyrannical grip.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is the feeling of the tsunami that washes over your heart and senses, the invisible one save for the notes of expression which feel like rivets being plunged into the greatest of ocean going tankers, the smash of heavy iron against the titanic shoulders of industrialised steel, in which the loud and unique hit you first.
The latest in a long line of mini album releases from 50FOOTWAVE, Bath White, is a lengthy dive at the heart of a crushing wave, not one born of destruction, but one in which the tidal wave is addictive, the sea is one that never forgets and the dynamic settle for the intimate sound of nature to aid them on their way.
Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10
There is a whisper in the air, the sound of something exciting and eccentric, the electricity of a corrupted heart nestling in the ambience of a decadent groove and it is a wickedness that is amongst the very best of albums that will stick in the listener’s minds; the whisper of the unique and powerful always has that effect.
For Elouise, a collaboration of Los Angeles based musicians which include Rich Dembowski, John Chamberlin, Michelle Beauchesne, William Bongiovanni and Elouise Walker, their debut album Deep Water is a voyage of discovery, a trip into the fantastical and the damned and it is an expedition into the unknown in which to travel light and with great fondness of what you are about to experience.