Category Archives: Music

Jane Lee Hooker, No B!. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Should you choose to fall for the charms, the determination and the blistering Blues of Jane Lee Hooker, should the infectious demands of gravel toned vocals obliterate any doubts placed in the way of just what is in store as the groove and blues start to delve between the ribs and cause the heart to pound, then you know just how superb the feeling of nostalgic punches to the musical gut are, just how dominating Jane Lee Hooker are with their debut album, No B!

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

Ged Wilson, Tonight At Noon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Arguably one of the most important things to be able to posses in life is a sense of humour, without it you are doomed to wallow in either your own misfortune or the downfall of believing your own hype, of taking yourself so seriously it causes the soul pain or not understanding just what it is you mean to other people; a sense of humour makes all the talent you posses so much beautiful and allows clarity of spirit to shine through. It is in that clarity of spirit that makes Ged Wilson’s Tonight at Noon such a wonderful piece of Blues interaction and one that you cannot help raise a smile to, even on the most harmonious of moments available.

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

Ninebarrow, Releasing The Leaves. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be considered as sounding warm, inviting or even welcoming is to some a death knell, the sound of pleasantries made to be engaging, yet despite the wary nature of such social niceties, to use warm, musically demonstrative and even tender when talking about Dorset’s Ninebarrow is not to be friendly, to add Dorset charm to the world of literature, instead it is to be seen as graceful, elegant and stylish; for in Ninebarrow’s Releasing The Leaves lays the foundation stone of the next generation of Folk music at its very best.

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

Ensiferum, Two Decades Of Greatest Sword Hits. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Time is an illusion; it is only the passing of day into night that allows meaning to be understood, 20 years can pass quite simply in the blink of an eye, it is more to do with the Mayfly like effect that we live our lives in that you can be young aspiring sweating teenager one minute and the next knocking at the door of 40, the best of your life revealed only by how you view your actions.

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

Zakk Wylde, Book Of Shadows II. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

New Jersey gets bad press, especially in comparison to its near neighbour across the bay, New York, on this side of the Atlantic, but for anyone who has spent serious amount of time there, maybe ventured beyond the calling card of Atlantic City, the brushed walkways and the large unexpected Elephant named Lucy that remains static but a huge draw of things to do that don’t involve gambling, for anyone willing to venture in and see what life is truly about, then in Zakk Wylde you have the perfect man to accompany you as you make your way to Cape May Court House and relax in the release of Book Of Shadows II.

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(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Her Soldier Boy. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Sometimes a piece of music cannot be contained, it may scream to be allowed out of the mind and into the wide awaiting world and there is nothing that the musician or the audience can do about it, except for sitting back, making sure that all is secure with the area for a while and allowing the sweeping change laid out before them to tactically submit in the shape of a greater force. It is a greater force that comes before the listeners as John Jenkins with Vanessa Murray offers the beautiful yet wistfully dynamic Her Soldier Boy in a unregimented parade of class and vitality.

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

The Wonder Stuff, 30 Goes Around The Sun. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time can look you straight in the eyes and without blinking, without ever showing emotion, find a way to unnerve you, show you the colossal state of the Universe and the immensity of it all; then once it has taken you down several pegs it holds your hand, smiles deeply, kisses you on the cheek and allows you another turn around the Sun. It is the kind of benevolence, the deep rooted compassion and underlying Cosmos wake that awaits anyone who wants to seek out beauty in music and who knows they will find it in abundance in The Wonder Stuff.

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

James J. Turner, Spirit, Soul & A Handful Of Mud. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It might be hard to identify at first, the feeling of contentment that pours over you when you listen to James J. Turner, it is like being swept down- stream in raging thought and realising that you are not heading for the whirlpool, you are not going to be digested or abandoned like many others would leave you, exhausted, alone and wondering what the night will bring, instead he seduces, he offers a hand of friendship and hopes that for a while you will accompany him on the journey; for travel, as well as conversation, always broadens the mind.

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(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Rusty Shackle, Dusk. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Falling in love is easy, so much so that almost anybody can do it if they have half a heart, enough hot blood in them and the chance to kiss the muse at least once; the one time kissed Muse though is nothing, she sits quietly at the back of the dance hall with her handbag sat rigid beside her, everybody kisses her, not everybody gets to ravish the Muse and make her fall hopelessly in love with you.

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

4Square, Fuel. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

The feeling of separation is one that all of us encounter at some point in our lives, the distance between us is such that a void, a slither of darkness in an otherwise bright space, becomes apparent and can make mockery of what we set out to attain; separation is a fuel that keeps being added to when not all the parts flow at the same rate.

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