Category Archives: Music

Robin Trower, Where Are You Going To. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

His name is etched in stone across the ages, from his native Catford to the having the world’s music lovers know him by sense of feeling and depth of character, he is the man who can make a guitar sound as if it is loved, adored and purr gently in the night by the fireside in contentment and gentle repose. In Robin Trower all things are possible because he doesn’t just play the guitar to make an audience listen; he plays it to make it weep, to make the crowd think and in all such things beauty is attained.

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(408 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Staggs, Robotomy/Don’t Call Me Satan. Singles Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, now we have the ability to gloss over the sepia and rose coloured times in which the past would have us believe was all that happened, that there was no bleak or feelings of disharmony or abandonment within society; that it was all a bad dream which we can forget and move on till the next time society and Time decide to take us apart.

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

Rachel Newton, Here’s My Heart Come Take It. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When someone offers you their heart, is it polite to take it, to hopefully cherish it and keep it safe from harm or does the thought of such responsibility make you breathe strangely, make you feel wary of the possible outcomes, that somewhere down the road you will be the one to break it, tear it apart and scar it forever. When Rachel Newton proposes the notion, Here’s My Heart Come Take It, it is almost a veiled threat, a conjuring of emotions that knows what you are capable of doing to the sensitive organ and should you not take it seriously then the repercussions are too immense to deal with.

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

Kyla Brox, Throw Away Your Blues. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of the authentic is enough to drive you wild, it can certainly stir the heart strings and play deference to life as it life itself becomes rich and balanced for it; authentic never means toeing a line built by others but it does mean that those preaching it from their soul are genuine, dependable and full of truth, whether you wish to hear it or not.

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

Pearl Handled Revolver, If The Devil Casts His Net. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Nobody is truly innocent, nobody has the right to ever suggest before any type of unearthly realms jury that they have no stain upon their character or are completely above suspicion, in the end If The Devil Casts His Net wide enough, he will catch us no matter what; it all depends on just how good your lawyers are on whether you get away with it or if you end up filing pokers for the rest of eternity.

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

Gregory Porter, Take Me To The Alley. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Experience is at the heart of professionalism; life at the very centre of a good story or lyric and understanding the very point of music; bring all those facets of a person’s ability together and what the result might look like is Gregory Porter. It certainly won’t sound like the one of the Jazz/Soul greats of the modern age for nobody can be as remarkably clear and beautifully astute as him and in his new album, Take Me To The Alley, all that refinement, class and specialist insight comes rushing out to greet the listener in all its abundant glory.

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

LUH, Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The term interesting has become almost a slogan for the bored and the easily distracted, it has lost the meaning of requires further investigation, of complete concentration and focus on the task or the artistic assignment ahead. In many ways, it is has become its own antonym in the same way that the English language is fluid, so too can words misguide and change.

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(346 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Resident Alien, Strawberry Moon. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The language of the emotive and poignant will always carry something different about them than the sincere, the tender and the lyrically moved. It will carry a sense of the discrete, of the way that many are stimulated in one way or another to transfer their lives away from their birth place and the country of their origin as they clash with authorities, the dissidents and the rebels of the state; those to whom a voice is denied.

Resident Alien, Strawberry Moon. E.P. Review. full post

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

Only Child, The Whale Found Its Way To The Shore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Poetry does not have to be confined, if it ever is, to the written down Bard or the stand up performance in a bustling city café; poetry is everywhere, the feeling of the poetic, the graceful and the profound rhythm can be seen in almost anything; it just requires a certain perceptive, enquiring mind and sensitivity to the issue in which to come out and be applauded.

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

Stella Diana, Nitrocris. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When the Gods smile upon you, when the divine heavens open and shine down a radiance upon your hard earned talent and capacity to learn and grow, then no matter what your beliefs elsewhere, as long as you have belief in yourself that is all that matters. It is belief and hard work that have given Italian postpunk band Stella Diana such remarkable fascination and insight in their latest album Nitrocris

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(362 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)