Category Archives: Music

Wily Bo Walker, Moon Over Indigo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is the sense of loyalty to the genre that comes across in absolute spades in the music of Wily Bo Walker that makes the charisma of magic and the spectral allure so fascinating. The mixture between the magnetic offering and the high end cool that struts its stuff between the bars as if walking down a cat walk in the very best of ordinary clothes but illuminated by the sheer swagger and control is not unobserved and as Wily Bo Walker parades with great affection through the album Moon Over Indigo, the eternal spotlight is very much on him.

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

Thom Morecroft, Hand Me Down. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Although the E.P. title may allude to it, there is nothing Hand Me Down about the music writing and lyrical insightfulness of Thom Morecroft, a man who made Liverpool his home town, who has adopted it like a flag of honour but who also maintains the individual stride of pride in being a man inspired by his first surroundings of his native town. It is in this mix, potent, compelling and in many cases intoxicating, that makes his music a slice of enduring combination of Liverpool enthusiastic outpouring and Midland’s stoicism.

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

The Furrow’s Collective, Blow Out The Moon. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Sun may bring life, it may make the dark simply look like a tool of repression but in the end it holds less mystery to the naked eye, less intrigue what lays beyond than the creature of the night, Earth’s shadow, the Moon.

The Moon arguably inspires more poetry, more love in the heart of the songwriter, George Harrison may have captured the zeitgeist with Here Comes The Sun but the Moon influences the darker and spiritual side of Humanity’s relationship with what stretches out into the void. To remove that, to snuff out the spectral, to Blow Out The Moon, is commit an act of poetic treason.

The Furrow’s Collective, Blow Out The Moon. E.P. Review. full post

(330 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Johny Corrigan, Down The Line. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is not enough to just listen to a song or an album and exclaim that it is a great tune before going onto the next one like a rampaging and overweight bee flying across a field of enticing and wanton flowers, its mind constantly changing as each delicate bloom offers a different aroma, a different smell in which for the bee to get giddy about. It is not enough to listen to music as a background noise when placing the Sunday roast out for people to devour, music should always have a degree of empathy attached to it; both on the receiving and the offering of each and every track somewhere Down The Line.

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

Gloomy Hellium Bath, Sistema Solera. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

It could be deemed as understandable to those who dip in and out music as if it’s a spring filled lake, the necessity to relax into the mode on offer but always finding the temptation to run off and do something else, to give into the butterfly life cycle is perhaps a curse of modern day life. It makes it all too easy to dismiss something upon first listen, initial experience or starting sentence. If it doesn’t please you in the first couple of sentences then surely it can’t be any good.

Gloomy Hellium Bath, Sistema Solera. Album Review. full post

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

Dean Wallace, Metal Family. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The year never ends with a whimper, it only ever finishes with a crash, a moment of lengthy feedback and the surge of electricity flowing through the veins. It is the swell of vision from an artist’s mind that creates an excitement for the following year, not the spectacle of a thousand fireworks screaming towards the dead black sky and the rivets, the joists, the framework of that can only truly come from someone in the Metal Family and who better than Dean Wallace.

Dean Wallace, Metal Family. Album Review. full post

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

Southbound Attic Band, Christmas Has Come Around. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Christmas comes but once a year…it’s a good job really because a nation, as a society we seem to have lost more than sight of what the time of year means, we have arguably lost all sense of proportion as well.

Southbound Attic Band, Christmas Has Come Around. E.P. Review. full post

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

Kate Rusby, The Frost Is All Over. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is a cause for celebration when The Frost Is All Over, a time to remember that spring is on its way, that the desolate feeling, the icy grip of a winter’s chill is but fleeting and so is the frost when the warmth of a good soul can find it in their hearts to allow the frigid nature of life to come back alive. For Kate Rusby, the warmth comes over in waves, in which ever guise her career has taken, the endless enthusiasm; the very natural air of her work spreads the passion of Folk far and wide.

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

Sue Hedges, Always Xmas. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It can be a double edged sword, in some respects Christmas is a time when the world seems to breathe, it collects its thoughts in the wild winter and the hope of in-bound days, the warm fire jostling for perspective and memories of days where the dripping of slowly thawing snow onto the hall way floor competes with the sense of isolation, enforced or otherwise and the crush that such a time can have on the soul.

Sue Hedges, Always Xmas. E.P. Review. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Glossom, Brother. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always a little room for Glossom in your life, should there not be then it is the right time to delete from your memory the mouthfuls of sprouts you have had to endure, to let go of that conversation of where you were going to spend New Year’s Eve and it turned out you had to dance with an aged aunt who couldn’t keep her hands to herself and the almost impossible task of acting surprised when your nearest and dearest bought you the one present you had dropped more hints about than a teenager trying his luck with the cider bottle. For in all things to do with the festive season, sprouts, groping aunts and drunk young teenagers matter not a single jot, however the return of Glossom with their new two track E.P. deserves full attention; there truly is no contest.

Glossom, Brother. E.P. Review. full post

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