Category Archives: Music

Hegarty, The Unintended Rebellion. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Not everything in life is planned, not every riot, act of disobedience or the undertaking of insubordination is to be thought of as premeditated. Neither is the act of impulse in which words flow and the music plays around like a pack of wild animals, eager to be let loose upon the world and to dominate the thoughts of those with enquiring minds and bountiful imagination, the lyrics acting like a general, the pack leader whose pride brings him satisfaction as the stumble by chance upon a way to change the world; for The Unintended Rebellion is always one that hits the headlines more.

Hegarty, The Unintended Rebellion. E.P. Review. full post

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

Liam Brown, Dogs & Other Wild Things. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The internet might be to blame for many things in life but in one small corner of a bedroom near the Mersey, the sound of young music ability and craftsmanship has taken shape and might never have been heard had it not been for what the internet can do when used properly and as a tool for the betterment of lives and social good.

Liam Brown, Dogs & Other Wild Things. Album Review. full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Richard Thompson, Still. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Richard Thompson is one of the great survivors of Rock and Folk, a man who is the epitome of great song writing and who, even after nearly 40 years of recording and touring has the ability to make each new song sound as though it was plucked from a new born rose and the thought of the aroma of the intoxicating future promised one of great mystery and satisfaction.

Richard Thompson, Still. Album Review. full post

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

Pete Townshend, Truancy. The Very Best Of Pete Townshend. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The best of, the culmination of a life’s work, easier perhaps in the artistic world of poetry, film or music than dealing with the general public day after day in a shop or waiting on tables.

Pete Townshend, Truancy. The Very Best Of Pete Townshend. Album Review. full post

(517 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Dave O’ Grady, Songs For The Room (My Oldest Friend/ Whiskey) Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The feeling of loss is something that overwhelms us all at times, whether it’s for a person, a situation, a much loved memory or an ideal, loss is as much at the heart of Human experience as joy and triumph. It takes though someone with passion running through their veins to put those words into an emotion that we can feel, that we can feel the sense of such things and into which the grief and pain soon subside because they have offered the prospect of truth in their words.

Dave O’ Grady, Songs For The Room (My Oldest Friend/ Whiskey) Single Review. full post

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

Mohawk Radio, Oblivion. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Oblivion, the overwhelming sense that beyond this mortal coil of poets of Kings lays the vastness of nothingness; the stranglehold of complete and utter black void where dreams are shattered and lost for eternity. Oblivion though is not always the end, perhaps as with Manchester’s Mohawk Radio’s latest single taken from their current E.P. Halfway To Heaven, it is bit a beginning, a foundation in which eternity is placed within caring hands and then rocked till the heart is exhausted and the sound of stirring vocals caresses the remains.

Mohawk Radio, Oblivion. Single Review. full post

(341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The trailer may still be in the same spot where she parked up for her previous album in 2013 but the sense of maturity as a musician even in those couple of years and the light years since she first played around with her own independent recordings is something that comes across with much depth in Kacey Musgraves latest release, Pageant Material and which has seen the trailer become an impregnable fortress.

Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material. Album Review. full post

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

Thy Art Is Murder, Holy War. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

All art is subjective, one person’s Medieval pious statue is another’s form of intolerance and exploitation, one person’s take on Michelangelo’s gift to the Vatican and the Pope can fill them with wonder, another will look upon it and witness not creation but decadence and human objectivity; it is in perhaps these conflicting emotions that the surging emotions of Holy War are seeded.

Thy Art Is Murder, Holy War. Album Review. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody, Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinis.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Opera or classical music, like many other musical art forms, can be a divisive topic of discussion in the musical alleyways, you either love it or loathe it; you either see it for what it is or what you imagine it to be. However when the subtleties and booming experiences of the thought of higher end of musical experiences is met head on like a Minotaur gate-crashing a build your own maze party and one carrying the appeal of the rhapsody, then perceptions, like ideals, need to be challenged and fought against.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Sons Of Mowgli, We Had A Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Time may move on, it may even stoke up the type of variations in quick succession that Charles Darwin spent most of his life studying but when it comes to the natural progression of a band, from one spectrum to another, the sweet sound of Sons of Mowgli is hard to beat. One that words of praise readily rests on the lips of the listener as they take in the words of the folk five-piece from Hoylake.

Sons Of Mowgli, We Had A Time. Album Review. full post

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