Category Archives: Music

Decade, Good Luck. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

You have to admire the tenacity in which some bands make the most of their very obvious talent, the sheer force of will to get a set of songs together that will hopefully appeal to a wide enough range of fans to have made the whole exercise worthwhile.

For the five musicians that make up Decade, the process in putting together the album Good Luck feels as though they have kept their head above water long enough to make it at least something of tangible note and one that on odd occasions will be one of those that finds itself in the C.D. player and gratefully enjoyed before being neglected for a while unless bought by one of those wonderful fans that play such albums to death.

Decade, Good Luck. Album Review. full post

(362 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Little Sparrow. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life really should be made up of more joy than sadness. No matter the person, no matter their situation in life, to condemn a person to abject misery should be seen as sin that requires immediate redressing. However the lead up to the festive period can also bring a sparkle of hope into the world of beige and drab. Like walking through a snow filled forest on Christmas Day and believing that no other creature could surely be out embracing the cold chill that December invariably brings and then stumbling across a small bird chirping away with a song that is heard because no other being in creation dare interrupt it.

Little Sparrow. E.P. Review. full post

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

The Ragamuffins,The Benefits Of A Downhill Paper Round. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

With a heavy thump, the sound of a jaw can be heard through the noise of life, the backdrop to being alive in the 21st Century and all its relative shenanigans and utterances, that said jaw drops to the floor as the final track of the latest E.P. from the Ragamuffins, The Benefits of a Downhill Paper Round, clicks off and the stunned overwhelming desire to jump for joy at a very cool set of songs is only tempered by the time it takes to pick up the jaw from the floor.

The Ragamuffins,The Benefits Of A Downhill Paper Round. E.P. Review. full post

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

Royal Southern Brotherhood, Live In Germany. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are expectations that have to be met when listening to a live album. The first is that the sound recreated on a stage, possibly many hundreds of miles from wherever you are fortunate enough to actually listen to the gig, has to be able to make the imagination run riot, to revel in the flow and thrust of the guitar, to feel the sweat run down your neck in anticipation and to envisage the person infront of you in the audience nervously sweating along with you. The taste of the gig has to be captured just right, else it is lost and abandoned like an errant Victorian child left at the Poor House.

Royal Southern Brotherhood, Live In Germany. Album Review. full post

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

Vamos, More Songs About Circles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Vamos describe themselves as “Ruff and ready”, judging by the powerful three chord arrangements and embracing nature of the songs on their new album, More Songs About Circles, that speak more about life in the 21st century than any Government report and media friendly social workers with a supposed good hearts could ever put into words. Vamos is just very cool and a threesome that almost anybody could hold onto without the feeling of guilt thrust upon them.

Vamos, More Songs About Circles. Album Review. full post

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

Clutching At Straws, Come What May. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

All the world’s a stage and the sense of theatre can be found in almost every human interaction. For alternative Folk quartet, Clutching At Straws, their debut release of Come What May is a set of songs that glide almost effortlessly between the hard hitting conscious thought, of a different way of living and the hint of illusion in what apparently is important in modern day society. The sound of four men whose undisputed talent keeps them pace ahead of the rat race they are urging others to avoid.

Clutching At Straws, Come What May. Album Review. full post

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

Boston, Love, Life & Hope. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Boston never really typified the typical rock and that really is a good thing. The bands that were around them around the same time changed their ways and became less in your face and took on the approach that not every rock track needs to dogmatic, the same tired rhetoric filled with the only ambition being to be louder and brash than everybody else. Boston, or rather Tom Scholz bought a new and exciting feel, one more filled with the love of music and lyrics that play with love as an ideal.

Boston, Love, Life & Hope. Album Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Also Eden, Redacted. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is nothing like an album to remind you of many truths that you may hold dear in your short life. When the subtle combination of music and lyrical splendour is able to shake the lethargy that had been creeping in to your existence, of perhaps even a first love, then you know that truth you had held onto for so long and with a vice like grip is absolutely right.

Also Eden, Redacted. Album Review. full post

(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Nina Ferro, Into The Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is no doubting the honest sincerity and vocal intensity that Nina Ferro gives in her latest album Into the Light. The heartfelt plea, the authenticity that surrounds the vocals supplied by a selection of musicians who seem to have fallen completely under the spell of the quite remarkable vocals and play as if that spell will never be broken is more than enough to make sure that this album is regarded with high esteem amongst jazz, rhythm and blues enthusiasts.

Nina Ferro, Into The Light. Album Review. full post

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

Barry Briercliffe, Life On Repeat. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is almost criminal, worthy of the full weight of the law being thrown against you, to let such an exciting musician such as Liverpool’s Barry Briercliffe to go so long without releasing an abundance of music that not only sounds terrific but also captures the rich goodness of the man and his guitar.

Barry Briercliffe, Life On Repeat. Album Review. full post

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