Category Archives: Music

The Rheingans Sisters: Start Close In. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The balance of our world is at stake, the precipice is staringly close, our heels are clinging on for the sake of our sanity, but the demons, the shadows of whispers that grab at our ankles out of sight have started to close in; only a truth of art can hope to bless our souls enough to bring us back from the edge, but we must allow the mind to Start Close In on healing before the temptation to let ourselves fall completely, utterly, over the edge of the precipice.

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

Andrew Combs: Dream Pictures. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We must snatch every minute available to us, every moment must be handled with care and with passion, but it also must lay the foundation of a dream that you pursue till it appears fully formed, no matter the cost to Time, we must be ready to deny silence in the mind in the promise of the fully formed belief; and if we can dream it, then eventually we picture it, and then we live it.

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(359 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Scarla O’ Horror: Semiconductor Taxidermy For The Masses. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have become used to living in a world where to be unique is to be viewed with suspicion, and to be amongst the masses is to be considered safe, to be protected in a shelter of the benign and the harmless. It is almost as we have taken the opportunity to cram every pore of those willing take artistic risks with stuffing and insulation just so we can exhibit them in a museum of the peculiar as a warning, as a cautionary tale to the timid and the apprehensive masses.

Scarla O’ Horror: Semiconductor Taxidermy For The Masses. E.P. Review. full post

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

Thokozile Collective. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Ladysmith Black Mambazo arguably were bought to the attention of the wider world in 1986 when the sound of Paul Simon’s internationally acclaimed album Graceland was heard by an audience willing, desperate to investigate the muscle of music from a country and its indigenous people who had long been in the shade of popular recording; and yet as the listener takes in the beauty and exuberance of Thokozile Collective’s seriously cool self-titled debut album, that sound from the sizzling memory of Africa once lauded, marks a return to the ears as the U.K. based sextet roar into action with a Jazz beat legacy intact.

Thokozile Collective. Album Review. full post

(401 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Jon Gold: Guanabara Eyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

To set your eyes on the vision before you, to take in the natural beauty of the largest natural harbour in the world and understand the depth of history fought over in its name and the loss of what was once a flourishing and diverse eco-system, is to feel a bitterness of humanity’s actions in the face of environment.

Environment is everything, without it we flounder in space, our attempts at creating a lasting heartbeat of memory is negated by the damnation that the beauty we could have utilised to educate and inspire the release, the song and the tune in our heart.

Jon Gold: Guanabara Eyes. Album Review. full post

(325 words, 1 image, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Lindsey Buckingham: 20th Century Lindsey. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Lindsey Buckingham 20th Century Lindsey (CD) Box Set - Picture 1 of 1

To look back at what we achieved in the past and see it without blemish is a sign of arrogance that we can ill afford to entertain; to be humble and acknowledge that we could have taken a different approach is to understand that whilst we may be lauded by the fan, it is our own personal critic we should be aware of…no regrets, but justifiable frustration that perhaps the strength we looked for in that moment was indeed just the start, the prelude before the explosion of the sublime to come.

Lindsey Buckingham: 20th Century Lindsey. Box Set Review. full post

(487 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Andrew J. Newall: My Lucky Charm. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We tend to think of the concept album as one that can be seminal, gargantuan in its outlook, full bodied in say the realms of Pink Floyd, Green Day, Jethro Tull, The Who, and even the magnificent aspirations of the smooth voice from R ‘n’ B and Soul’s Marvin Gaye in his undeniable classic What’s Going On, but we forget that at times the concept is more than just an anthem, a set of songs placed together to rock a stadium and declare, almost punk like, of the disaffection and destruction of a human soul in a theatrical sense, but it is also a celebration of an oral tradition; a bringing together the life of someone not in the public eye but one who is just as every bit the hero or heroine deserving a tale.

Andrew J. Newall: My Lucky Charm. Album Review. full post

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

Linda Moylan: The Fool. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The artist’s control is paramount when it comes to insisting that they do everything possible to complete the vision that they have played out in their head a thousand times, to deny the creator the image, the sound, the farsighted concept is to be seen surely as a crime against unique talent, as a complaint to The Fool who forbids and the Jester who rejects.

Linda Moylan: The Fool. Album Review. full post

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

Pete Lambert: I Told You A Story. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

People will tell you a story for two different reasons, one is to exact a sense of sympathy, the other is to inform and display understanding; however, your words are taken though in the end cannot be down to your expression and sense of truth, but in the way the recipient feels the tale resonates with their own experience or their belief in you.

Pete Lambert: I Told You A Story. Album Review. full post

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

The Georgia Thunderbolts: Rise Above It All. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Album artwork for Rise Above It All by The Georgia Thunderbolts

F.E.A.R. as an acronym works well in our current state of human existence, and yet most will see it as an instruction to turn tail, to quit when the going has not only gotten hard, but more challenging a period of instability and cruelty of spirit than perhaps we have faced in the last 80 years; instead the approach, which is just as difficult, even as testing, but ultimately more satisfying, is to rise and meet the gruelling tasks head on.

The Georgia Thunderbolts: Rise Above It All. Album Review. full post

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