Category Archives: Music

Boo Hewerdine, My Name In Brackets (The Best of Boo Hewerdine & The Bible). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A gentle demeanour is never lost in life. The soothing tones of a musician seemingly at peace with themselves is never truly overshadowed by the storm that rampages around them, the squall and the rough tidal surges that drown out the less romantic find ways to inspire the artistically gifted. For Boo Hewerdine if the squall and blizzards of life affect him, then his music doesn’t show it, not outwardly possibly but like all great artists there is something of the dark attached within the moving, almost sensual lyrics that command the same attention as coming across the flowing beast that is the River Nile for the first time.

Boo Hewerdine, My Name In Brackets (The Best of Boo Hewerdine & The Bible). Album Review. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Supertramp, Crime Of The Century. 40th Anniversary Re-issue, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The wheels of Time constantly turn but they never seem to move very far from certain seminal points that repeat themselves over and over again. When it comes to nostalgia and thinking back to how much Time has irrevocably altered and magnified certain pieces of art, then the re-master, re-issue or just plain re-discovery of a lost epic is enough to make Time smile and make its heart go a little faster.

Supertramp, Crime Of The Century. 40th Anniversary Re-issue, Album Review. full post

(844 words, estimated 3:23 mins reading time)

The Love Dimension, Create And Consume. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In the blink of an eye a life can change. In the time it takes to hear an album by a band foraging their way carefully through the Californian minefield of abundant music, you are already finding your thoughts focused on making sure you get on a plane sometime soon, taking a trundle down any of the side streets of San Francisco and hoping that you will bump into a band member or two and clasping them firmly by the hand and without a second thought for so called British reserve; telling them that you love them so much that you want to re-start the psychedelic revolution with them.

The Love Dimension, Create And Consume. Album Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Cousin Jac, Believe Me To Remain. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are those who are quick to judge without considering exactly what it is that makes an artist tick. The spark of idea, the small germ of a notion that takes root and multiplies until it cannot be contained, a concept that takes over every waking moment; all are seen to some as just an impulse in which to suggest that an artist and their work is of less value to society than almost anyone else, that what they do is too easy, perhaps a cop-out from doing something else. Nothing in this world is further from the truth and for Jez Wing’s Cousin Jac, he is to be believed with every fibre of his being.

Cousin Jac, Believe Me To Remain. Album Review. full post

(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

AC/DC, Rock Or Bust. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Empires pass, they have to for the next stage of evolution and growth to begin, some spectacularly, some with a whimper and some…well some just turn to stone and meld into the background and always acknowledged and remembered with fondness for what they delivered in their lifetimes. Empires pass, and so do legends and for AC/DC, the time to perhaps gather dust is upon one of the greatest Rock bands to ever grace a stage and tear seven bells of Hell out of a studio.

AC/DC, Rock Or Bust. Album Review. full post

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

Ten, Albion. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Albion is a name that conjures up a different time, a place in which few would even think about now but for the odd semi-muted mutterings of a dusty academic or a fan of West Brom or Brighton after a win at home. The act of a union of a long gone age but which was forged in fire, diplomacy and the blood of many a soul. The coming together of the mythical Albion is entrenched though in some thoughts as the long established Manchester Rock band Ten is in others, and for them Albion is a by-word for an alliance of closely themed songs which can set the pulse racing just that little quicker.

Ten, Albion. Album Review. full post

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

Dirt, Bonds. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It takes a Doctor who normally knows you well to prescribe you something extra that will get you out of a slump, the timely injection of the touch of prospective future genius in which to immerse yourself into. That Doctor will not leave you floundering like a salmon gasping for oxygen on the banks of raging river and with a bear looking hungrily on, he will not leave you in the dust, but he will prescribe you Dirt and the boost to the musical eardrums is opportune and sensible.

Dirt, Bonds. Single Review. full post

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

Kevin Critchley, As I Disappear. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In all of us there are times in which the urge to disappear, to walk away from all that surrounds and consumes us, when its either overwhelming to the point where one day your best friend suddenly finds you have left the country and are now contemplating eating lentils and enjoying a spiritual uplifting moment in Tibet or at the very least your loved one might come across a journal in which you have kept with an eye on the future in which cutting logs outside of a wooden cabin in the depths of the Canadian wilderness.

Kevin Critchley, As I Disappear. Album Review. full post

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

Mellowtone, Ten Years. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The name alone evokes images of nights in the more entertaining and laid back venues in Liverpool, the relaxed atmosphere of the afterglow of an easy afternoon turning its hands to the time of the extraordinary and the anxious furtive glances of a night in which elegance and style are only part of the running order. For Liverpool’s Mellowtone, the homes have been many, the acts numerous and always welcome but there is really is only one Dave McTague.

Mellowtone, Ten Years. Album Review. full post

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

Thom Morecroft, On All Night. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Ultimately all that can matter from a single release is whether it grabs you first time round and playfully suggests that you go and investigate the hopefully inevitable album or E.P. that comes a few weeks after. In the end the complete work is where the reveal into an artist’s soul and thoughts lay. Like a Shakespeare sonnet being read aloud in an English class and discussing it with knowledge without having read any of the others, the whole body of work is where the real insight comes into play.

Thom Morecroft, On All Night. Single Review. full post

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