Category Archives: Music

The Selecter, Subculture. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You can’t keep a good genre down for long. Like Progressive Rock which seemed to die a death in the late seventies, aside from a wonderful brief renaissance due to a certain band in the 1980s, Blues which collapsed under its own weight and almost near corpulent excess and the many predicted passing of Heavy Metal which like the late Christopher Lee in many of his outings as Dracula, comes back to enthuse a new generation with its addictive bite; so to have many impatient scribes long lamented over the lack of Ska in the last decade.

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

Sean Taylor, The Only Good Addiction Is Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Addiction comes in many forms and can either be a blessing or indeed more than likely, a curse which cannot be satisfied and saps you of energy, conscious and proper thought. Obsession and a sweet craving for the music of Sean Taylor should be seen as a good and necessary need, a compulsion in which to break would be bitter and leave the music lover despondent. For Sean Taylor, it seems, The Only Good Addiction Is Love and it is fulfilling and brutally charming whichever way it is looked upon.

Sean Taylor, The Only Good Addiction Is Love. Album Review. full post

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

Steve Logan, Deliverance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

The thought of Deliverance can run very deep, even in those that perhaps shun away from a society that might ridicule their beliefs and place their dreams into a box with a single x attached to its side; deliverance, sanctuary and the chance to be yourself in escapism are all notable and worthy aspects for those that really want to be different, want to have their own script to work from. It is the sign of a free person that aspires to the act of deliverance.

Steve Logan, Deliverance. Album Review. full post

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

Paul Wilkes, Take The Sunlight. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some people leave you in your oblique and obliging darkness happy to see you suffer under the weight of their own expectant failure, they curse your own breath as well as damning their own and they make it harder for you to like and appreciate their work. Some though, such as Paul Wilkes, don’t just place the listener back upright again, removing the slant-thought perspective that has been dragging them down, they insist that once they are done putting back together the musical soul that you also Take The Sunlight they have brought in to dispel the darkness.

Paul Wilkes, Take The Sunlight. E.P. Review. full post

(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Muse, Drones. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Who is really controlling who? That may as well be the burning question as Muse release their latest album, Drones, onto Britain’s music lovers’ ears. A question that gets murkier day by day, that gets lost in the very society which at times is preoccupied with being shown the way rather than living it and making their own mistakes, to err is after all Human, to do nothing is be an echo of one’s former self, the whisper of a murmur wrapped in a drone.

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

Dark Green Tree, Secret Lives. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Secrets are what define us, whether its personal or the thought of how we would truly like to be seen but the fear of rejection is too much to live with; secrets haunt us, spur us ever onwards and by keeping one close to your heart, can endear you to a friend for the rest of their lives.

Dark Green Tree, Secret Lives. Album Review. full post

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

Laura Victoria, Head Above Water. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is almost nothing like listening to a strong positive woman perform the music she wants to and recording it with no hindrance, no outside thought of what other may think and best of all, no use of overtly sexual tactics in which far too many young female pop stars resort to in a wide of the mark belief that their music empowers young girls but also converts boys to their cause. For brains and outstanding ability will always beat the sexualisation of a song, the likes of Kate Bush, Nicola Bendetti and Tori Amos are more in keeping with observing a positive female role for both genders than the likes of anyone who has to expose more than their thoughts on screen.

Laura Victoria, Head Above Water. Album Review. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Black Diamond, Stranglehold. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

That dreadful watchword of buzz is more than likely to bandied around as if being chased by Africanised bees with a group of angry hornets following up behind, sleeves rolled up and spoiling for a fight, as soon as world beyond Liverpool finally cottons on to Black Diamond. Already a huge firm favourite with the heavy Rock crowd in the city, their debut E.P. Stranglehold, is sure to add a heavier amount of support to their flourishing output and good name.

Black Diamond, Stranglehold. E.P. Review. full post

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

Ripple Green, Timepiece. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Mention the word Oklahoma to the average person from Britain and Howard Keel singing baritone against a grainy American backdrop would very possibly be high upon the list of watchwords used to describe the Sooner State. For the more historically minded, the former Native American land would throw up images of both national importance, the swarming despair of the Dust Bowl era and internal political division that had far reaching ramifications, which ever thought is mentioned, Oklahoma is a state that never quite springs to mind when thinking of a place to visit, nestled as it is a place firmly caught between East and West Coast sophistication and artistic endeavour.

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(389 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Chris Callander, Ghosts Of The Old Casartelli. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time has such an effect on the way we as a species perceive things that it is possible to feel part of two different eras at the same time. The human capacity for imagination adds much colour to the feeling of displacement that at times a certain sound or perhaps a headline in a newspaper or even the smell of a long lost lover can transport the person back to a place where they have no right to be, lost in the cacophony and melodrama of Time.

Chris Callander, Ghosts Of The Old Casartelli. Album Review. full post

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