Category Archives: Music

Tom Vamos, Love Sharks. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To be raw is to revel in a glory that the polished will never quite understand. To be raw, to lay down a law of music that must be appreciated for its frankness and its blunt charm is to gather at the gates of honesty and hang loose, drape your future colours over the past and play with deft cool.

It is a rawness that Tom Vamos brings happily to his debut solo E.P., Love Sharks, an ache of knowing that you are standing upon your own two feet and delivering your own personal message, and whilst there may be good people alongside you, that sense of personality is all yours.

Tom Vamos, Love Sharks. E.P. Review. full post

(352 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

S T F U, What We Want. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Perhaps one of the toughest lessons we have to learn at any age is, that What We Want sometimes doesn’t matter, that desire can only bring so much to life and overall can often lead us down a path to which our own control of things is abused by our very own cravings.

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(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Derek King, Seasons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If Sometimes is an occasion, an instance in Time to celebrate, then to find yourself nestling amongst the Seasons is to consider yourself privileged. It is a privilege that has been waiting and yearning to break free and for Derek King, it is a chance to raise the flag of his work even higher than many would ever dare to dream possible.

Derek King, Seasons. Album Review. full post

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

Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, Small Town Talk. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The atmosphere is always right for the moody, for the sound of the noir to hit home and infuse and meld with the mind that hears the beat slightly differently, that hears the audio as a humorous progression and one that is a self contained pulse. The atmosphere is made by such bands as Ma Polaine’s Great Decline and the responses they urge in the feelings of listeners who come their way, whether in large numbers and where the conversation lights up the sky or as a just the gossip that titillates the guardians of Small Town Talk.

Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, Small Town Talk. E.P. Review. full post

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

Blue October, Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

If you could imagine for a single moment what life would be like if you had already heard the finest album you ever likely to hear before you even turn to the hopeful and fruitful years that being a teenager can provide, then surely to keep searching for the ultimate musical experience would be considered an act of folly, a dangerous illusion to which the only thing to suffer is your bank balance and your sanity. Yet somehow despite all that you keep searching, you keep hoping something will appear out of the dark, a vital moment will present itself to you and make it all worthwhile.

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

Jon Kenzie, Wanderlust. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The desire to keep moving, to find a way to forever keep the feet itchy and the mind in a permanent yearning state may well be called wanderlust. For many thought it is more about a sense of freedom, the liberty to pick yourself up and move on to the next town and see how they do things there; for in giving in to wanderlust is one of the great and utter delights that is afforded humanity and one that should be celebrated with keen thought.

Jon Kenzie, Wanderlust. Album Review. full post

(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Paul Simon, Stranger To Stranger. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Like chalk and cheese, Paul Simon’s albums normally seem to go from exquisite high to downbeat low, from painstaking beauty to a desire left unfilled. It is in the nature of the listener to find absolute joy and the feeling of cold aloofness throughout every one of Paul Simon’s albums; however it is not one that normally follows in a single album.

Paul Simon, Stranger To Stranger. Album Review. full post

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

Simon Cousins, Forgiven Songs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

From Given to Forgiven, the song is always in the moulded, sculptured hands of Simon Cousins. It is a sculpture that is worked upon, that is designed and produced with full heart, from Given to Forgiven, Simon Cousins holds the listener close and asks only that the latest creation is known for its honesty.

Simon Cousins, Forgiven Songs. Album Review. full post

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

Cal Ruddy, Maria. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is the sound of an old but vibrant soul, of the appealing echo that resonates around the air of authority that hangs around the personality and playing ability of Cal Ruddy which makes him so incessantly cool; for the young man has a natural tendency to come up with a song that not only captures the attention of the listener from the very first hook, he does it a way which makes you think.

Cal Ruddy, Maria. Single Review. full post

(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

The Browning, Isolation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Isolation is perhaps the cruellest sentence to impose upon anybody, it smacks of abandonment, of segregation from your fellow man and can foster resentment and overwhelming feelings of revenge; rather than the perfect seclusion we all dream of having for perhaps just a week in our lives, where to do our own thing, be at one with the world, is almost to be seen as the ideal.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)