Category Archives: Music

David Crosby, Croz. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It seems somewhat odd to believe that someone as exquisite a song writer and musician as David Crosby, a living legend of the American highway and creator of some of the finest music to come out of the Folk/Rock scene has only recorded four solo albums in a career that is as lengthy as the famous Route 66. His work with Graham Nash and Stephen Stills, Buffalo Springfield and Neil Young is inspiring enough; it captures the essence of humanity in all its glory and deep down dirty despair but his solo work, which started in 1971 with the highly rated If I Could Only Remember My Name, has not been prolific. It is a story that has been rectified with his fourth release, the outstanding and beautifully crafted Croz.

David Crosby, Croz. Album Review. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Villy Raze, De Novo. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There have been great musicians, great poets and great song writers that have come out of Ireland. The social eye of Damien Dempsey, the urban mouthpiece of a disenfranchised youth of Bob Geldof whose barbed, razor like quality made him a voice of a generation in Dublin and beyond and north of the border, the legendary Fergal Sharkey’s great way with words and imagery endeared him and The Undertones across the Irish Sea and into the heart of John Peel and beyond. Add now to this these and other intelligent and very special performers, the sound of Villy Raze.

Villy Raze, De Novo. E.P. Review. full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Heath Common,The Dream of Miss Dee. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If Jack Kerouac were alive today, surely he would have been extolling the virtues of a man from Lancashire, possibly even turning him into a tragic anti-hero with an Americanised pseudonym and an abundance of women or men after him and plying him with whisky and repeatedly asking him to sing one of his songs that typify the road. Heath Common is that man, a character like no other, so unique that Kerouac or Ginsberg could not have captured the real essence of the road, in this case the Great Mancunian Way, he travels.

Heath Common,The Dream of Miss Dee. Album Review. full post

(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Eddi Reader, Vagabond. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To suggest that the phenomenal Eddi Reader has wandered through music since bursting onto the scene with Fairground Attraction would be doing this versatile and exciting musician a massive disservice. This is not a woman who can be accused of strolling through life, drifting from record to record, song to song as with some; the beauty she exudes through her music is enough at times to take your breath away and her latest solo album Vagabond is no exception.

Eddi Reader, Vagabond. Album Review. full post

(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Ed Harcourt, Time Of Dust. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

If there is ever any question over just how good, how brilliant, a musician and lyrists Ed Harcourt is, then that might be the day to hang up the earphones, put away the stereo and flog your collection for enough money as you can make and head off to the place where the silent order of monks and nuns reside, for no music could ever surely lift your spirits again.

Ed Harcourt, Time Of Dust. Album Review. full post

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

The Jigantics, Daisy Roots. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In amongst all the signs of having enjoyed a debut album by a band surely listening to it and not notice the time slip away from you as it pulls you in to its musical soul has to rank highly. Another sure fire way is when you find yourself humming along with the harmonies in a relaxed fashion, the infectious nature getting to you quite easily and the smile returning to your lips as you swim amongst unhurried lyrics and elegant instruments.

The Jigantics, Daisy Roots. Album Review. full post

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

Sons Of Mowgli, Come What May. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter how good you are, how unique you sound, the freshness you bring to the table, trying to stand out in a world that has seven billion people all trying to carve themselves a little notch of history and to be remembered for the spirit and talent they possess can be a daunting and sometimes discouraging prospect in a world that even now, is essentially a jungle.

Sons Of Mowgli, Come What May. E.P. Review. full post

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

House Of Trees, Where’s The Butcher, Where’s The Baker? Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The mixed emotions, the taste of an intoxicating, anything goes atmosphere; the piercing and stimulating feel of a time which you can only ever imagine having lived, inhabited and immersed yourself into as you wander around Upper Manhattan in search of the next big star and cool smooth voice. These are the qualities the listener will find on the stunning album by House of Trees, the superb Where’s The Butcher, Where’s the Baker?

House Of Trees, Where’s The Butcher, Where’s The Baker? Album Review. full post

(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It doesn’t matter how late in life you come to some musicians or artists, they will wait for you to catch up to them. They will continue to perform and make music knowing full well that at some point even the most ardent non-believer will find that they have been wrong all the time, come along with flat hat tightly wound around their fists and apologising for taking so long for getting on board with their best laid plans.

Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes. Album Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)