Category Archives: Music

Only Child, Buildings. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nothing is built to last these days, it is the cry of the planners and the urban speculators that is heard that everything that has been erected can be demolished and something even greater can be placed in the empty space; never mind that the building might be beloved, serve more use in the way it is, everything it seems is ripe for building up and knocking down.

The analogy between man-made structures and the personal lives of the everyday and everybody is not lost as Liverpool’s Only Child return to the forefront of musical ambition and outstanding talent with the first song to be taken from their forthcoming new album, the incredible and lyrically blistering Buildings.

Only Child, Buildings. Single Review. full post

(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Last In Line, Heavy Crown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When the barricades fall, when the moat is breached and the battlements tumble, what is left is the remaining line of defence, it is to those that salvation is sought and it is those that the fight is strengthened, fortified and resolute in their determination to hold the line so that the ignorant and the unaware cannot take over completely; there after all must be something worth living for.

Last In Line, Heavy Crown. Album Review. full post

(414 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Runrig, The Story. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

As George Harrison once mused, “All things must pass”; however if The Story must come to a dramatic end then it has be with sincerity, beauty and absolute pomp and as one of Scotland’s finest have made clear with their latest and final studio album, pomp and ceremony are only half the tale, the rest is made up with an absolute mind blowing epitaph of musical brilliance.

Runrig, The Story. Album Review. full post

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

Skunk Anansie, Anarchtecture. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The blueprint for controlled chaos is one that should be taken as a signal for a revolution but at times is lost in the mayhem of disturbed memory, the chaos losing its impetus because anarchy doesn’t fit well into the thoughts of the majority; the tinge of revolution, just enough to change a few things but in the end it all comes down to not offending all on your side.

Skunk Anansie, Anarchtecture. Album Review. full post

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

Danny Bryant, Blood Money. Album Review.

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Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The music is an enigma and the man who plays it with such a sweet caress is the enlightenment of the age, the young man of Blues who has already swept down from the stage and gathered up hearts, souls and minds with Hurricane and Temperature Rising makes a return in 2016 with the fantastic Blood Money and it is an album that holds untold riches for the listener as they delve deeper and deeper into the sound provided by Danny Bryant.

Danny Bryant, Blood Money. Album Review. full post

(393 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Ciaran Algar, The Final Waltz. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is the dance of the close comfort and the tap of the Progressive that makes the waltz such a beautiful moment to watch, the timing of the movement, the subjection to the lead of one mind being performed in a close knit space; it speaks volumes about the participants, the will and the endeavour in which to see the dance fulfilled.

The Final Waltz though is something else entirely, especially when it is your debut on the floor and in particular when your regular partner is urging you on to search for your own steps in which to whisk the heart away of someone who has found you deliberately enticing.

Ciaran Algar, The Final Waltz. Album Review. full post

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

Jon Lawton, White Lights. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A person behind the vision is just as important as those who feel the experience in the first place and for every musician who makes it into the studio with the faith of their conviction behind them, there has to be a producer, an engineer or someone to perhaps add the most invaluable piece to any recording, the ability to listen and perhaps steer the artist in the right direction.

Jon Lawton, White Lights. Album Review. full post

(371 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Jackobins, One More Chance. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It may the cry of the broken hearted, the exclaimed weep of those in search of valiant redemption but in the thunder splitting The Jackobins’ new single, One More Chance is not a sign of weakness, of grief over spilling into the realms of the sentimental. It is the toughness of spirit that grants that one person a shot of deliverance and in true Jackobins’ style it is wonderfully gruff, it is the sound of liberation, of the salvo of guns reigning down and offering a shelter from the ensuing storm.

The Jackobins, One More Chance. Single Review. full post

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

Steel Threads, The Rule Of Three. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The universe may have many rules, many regulations set down in the hope that karma finds a way to balance out those who deserve to have their story, not just listened to but repeated and reiterated and those to whom the story is just that, a tale of the wind blowing with such force that the light it carries, flickers and snuffs itself out before it has had chance to be seen.

Steel Threads, The Rule Of Three. Album Review. full post

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

The Bordellos/Schizo Fun Addict, Kassette. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The days of the old C-90 cassette, a period when young music listeners might find the joy of listening to a couple of albums recorded in the depths of an evening when homework was arguably more pressing, however for the personal stereo generation, the care and attention that went into making these pieces of social history stand out were beyond the realms of anything that had happened before or in which has taken place since. The I-pod, beautiful and full though it is, is a reflection of the click and buy culture that has taken place, it has no romance when compared to the art that went into recording a double cassette with precision.

The Bordellos/Schizo Fun Addict, Kassette. Album Review. full post

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