Category Archives: Music

Rae, Awoken. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Behind the simplest name can stand a giant in waiting! For Leonie Evans, Lorenzo Prati, Leon Boyden and Dan Truen, Rae is a word of simplicity, of unforgettable naming, but it is a band that hides within its soul, a sound so complete, so wonderfully down-trodden that it hits below the belt time after time and catches the listener unaware of what is happening to them. Now with their brand new album, Awoken, ready to captivate and further enhance the feeling of sitting in a cigar filled room and seeing the smoke part just enough to allow vision to take in clarity, Rae step out from beyond the shadows and blast their music all over your ear-drums.

Rae, Awoken. Album Review. full post

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

Mojo Makers, Devils Hands. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The smell of the Deep South, the history, both devastating and brutal and at times glorious and electrifying; you could be there sitting on a wooden porch listening to sound of crickets as they mock the alligators that wait patiently ready to snap, feeling the noxious aroma of sweat running down the back of a horse’s fetlock that stands idly by flicking its tail back and forth and the thoughts of a night in local bar with a crowd of people enjoying a tasty night of Blues. The Deep South has that all to offer…even it seems when it comes in the form of Denmark’s The Mojo Makers and the tremendous follow up to Wait Till the Morning, the thumping Devils Hands. 

Mojo Makers, Devils Hands. Album Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Larry Miller, Soldier Of The Line. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

History is made by those that write it. Whether for ill or for good, the written word is the perfect response to an event; even a hundred years after the aftermath and fallout that has been captured forever in a slice of Time. The writers, musicians and photographers somehow manage to evoke a message of rememberance that is perhaps unique amongst all of human responses to a critical event or personal emotion. Especially when seen through the eyes of the passionate and highly skilled.

Larry Miller, Soldier Of The Line. Album Review. full post

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

James Frost, Nameless. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some things remain Nameless, that is good as it injects an air of mystery and anonymous secrecy ….It is possibly down to many factors that Norwich is not known for many things in the general scheme of thought. Beyond perhaps one of Steve Coogan’s many comedic creations, the erstwhile Delia Smith, her beloved Norwich City Football Club and its stunning scenery, for many, unhappily and shamefully, the pre-eminent Norfolk city doesn’t really get that much coverage. Stuck as it is seemingly miles from anywhere, it truly is a capital of its own cut off country, only the half soaked land stopping it from being an island of incredible curiosity.

James Frost, Nameless. E.P. Review. full post

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

Lee Gallagher And The Hallelujah. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Somewhere between Bon Scott, Jim Morrison, the natural street like beauty of Steve Marriott and Jump’s John Dexter Jones lays the sweet heartbeat of Lee Gallagher and The Hallelujah.

It is one of the great pleasures in life that allows a person to hear the untwisted and unhindered emotion that a vocalist can bring to the delicately placed chord arrangements of the band that shroud the lyrical mystique to such a point where the words on offer to the listener take on air of mystery, a puzzle in which to immerse yourself into and gently work out what makes the charisma of the band tick so vibrantly.

Lee Gallagher And The Hallelujah. Album Review. full post

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

Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

There is putting a shift in and there is pushing it just that one step far before the first signs of a crumble start to appear. It can happen if time is not taken away from the studio and the filtering system of creativity is slightly blunted and becomes torn round the edges. The greats can get away with it however for perhaps a little while longer and whilst Sonic Highways, the new studio album from Foo Fighters, is for the most part a rock dream it is sadly not the full romp that has come to define the group for last decade and a half.

Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways. Album Review. full post

(473 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Ella The Bird, Glorified Demons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is something unexpectedly delicious waking up to the sound of a good dawn chorus. Depending on the type of bird that sits and nests near your home, the early morning alarm call is perhaps, alongside the dawning of the sun, one of the very few real reasons to feel grateful to be alive at six in the morning. The songbird is much heralded for that incentive to crawl your eyes awake and allow the senses to take part in the natural action available.

Ella The Bird, Glorified Demons. Album Review. full post

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

The Jackobins, Ghosts. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For anybody over a certain age and who never fulfilled a particular inventive goal, to see a great band produce quality recordings and have the absolute conviction that strides alongside the energy to pull off the artistry is something that the previous generation could only perhaps feel the tiniest bit of jealousy for. Of course the jealousy, if it appears, never lasts long, for the only thing you can do, on either side of the divide that separates one age bracket from another is too wish them well and revel in the dedication that sweat out like the fire from a jet propelled rocket.

The Jackobins, Ghosts. E.P. Review. full post

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

Windmill, One More Dance. Single review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

They may be a disappearing feature from the British countryside, however there is one particular Windmill that is going so strongly that its rotating blades of lingering vocals, moodily impressive guitars and drum pattern is sure to keep offering a twirl of spirited dynamism that is surely vital and causes a breeze of content to waft through the street of Liverpool.

Windmill, One More Dance. Single review. full post

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

Rhys Marsh, Sentiment. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Sentiment, the reaction to something that grabs the musical spirit and allows it grow over time into a positive and perhaps enlightening response that allows the human imagination to remember where they were when they first heard a particular song and the imagery that flashed before their eyes.

Rhys Marsh, Sentiment. Album Review. full post

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