Category Archives: Music

Flotsam And Jetsam: I Am The Weapon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Never take seriously those who suggest they hold a deterrent, the keys to the arsenal, or the codes to launch an attack; but always be mindful, even respectful of those who you know will look you in the eyes and with softly spoken menace proclaim, “I Am The Weapon”, for they are not talking of the bludgeon, they are merely describing themselves, they are the voice that can bring down towers and walls, they are the reason that those who practise art can be devastating in their approach to destroying an enemy.

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(427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Michael McDermott: Lighthouse On The Shore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The duality of the soul is not a complex argument to understand, the very nature of human existence relies on being able to see both sides of a story, to see through the forces of the darkness and the light, both equal opportunists when it comes claiming the soul of anyone, is to know of the cosmic intent of life itself. Collectively or individually, we are no more the ship cascading on broken waves at sea than we are the guiding beam from the Lighthouse On The Shore, but we are the amalgam of the two, and it is in that where reaction to the rocky times ahead are met with certainty and trepidation at the same time.

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

Helen Maw: Keepers Of The Sea. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To feel empathy, to understand compassion when you approach art is to know at some point you must have had your heart broken. There in the sweet surrender of the Muse’s voice that sings to you, in amongst the remains of the first breakdown the soul ever suffered, the memory lingers and it is to those sirens of expressions, the sirens who are the Keepers Of The Sea who set the seal on our willingness to feel at all times and give others the opportunity to also be charmed by the sound of waves and song.

Helen Maw: Keepers Of The Sea. Single Review. full post

(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Dirt On My Diamonds – Volume 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may be the same story, but art has a way of differentiating between acts, to separate chapters and expressions even with the text and idea being of the same sound and enquiring mind; whilst the concept album may hold the secrets to a storyboard account of a moment stretched out and given flesh, a volume is nuanced, it acknowledges the material created as having a different vein throbbing away majestically inside the body of work, and therefore whilst it occupies the same body as its predecessor, it is an animal of another disposition entirely.

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

Tom Meighan: Roadrunner. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To feel exhilaration and exhaustion in the aftermath of an album’s completion is one of the great emotional feelings that life can throw at you; to feel not only emboldened, but vitalised as the sweat and destruction of the pre-conceived ideas of how art can influence, guide, and threaten to quicken the pulse to the point where the blood pressure starts to bust machinery, is something to build belief on.

Tom Meighan: Roadrunner. Album Review. full post

(317 words, 1 image, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

999: Emergency At The Old Waldorf 1979. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It has often been announced with a kind of venomous fury that Punk is not dead, and quite rightly this argument is replete with a straightforward acknowledgement that the issues that underpinned the anger of its origins are still with us, multiplied by the excesses and demands of a political class out of control, and yet as we look back at the simplicity of the genre at its very heart, its union with other cultures and the listener will notice there is one major force the definition makers forgot; that of the influence of the groups that not only continued after the first great wave, but thrived enough to see the latest contributions from new bands stand alongside the remarkable skills of the older and the established godparents of the time.

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

Pippa Reid-Foster: Undercurrents. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst we might love the big number, the album that is extravagant and wonderfully excessive, the type of recording that has been poured over by each member of the band, and given to shaking the popular press into spreading the gospel according to… we might love the sensationalism that goes along with the uproar, the gossip of perception and the need to be seen not being part of the crowd, what we actually should be doing as much as possible is listening to the Undercurrents, to the sound running underneath, the truth of free flowing feelings and the depth of nuance.

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

Oran: Rebellious Rebirth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

“Do not go gentle into that good night…”, words written arguably by Britain’s most dominant poet of the 20^th Century, and one that we must pay attention to if we are to be more than a whisper at any point of our life; and one that Scottish singer-songwriter, Oran, complies with charm and grace, and the ferocity of a sun exploding in space, in her brand new debut album, Rebellious Rebirth.

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

The Cold Stares: The Southern. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Unashamedly, unapologetically, modestly, The Cold Stares return to the music listener’s attention with an album that opens up the sense of looking at your roots, of taking the aural photograph album and dusting off the memories to find what is essentially home; the place perhaps not where you believe you have found paradise, but that world where you first cut your teeth as your family, for good or bad, instructed you on the fundamentals of life, the foundations of your time on Earth.

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

Kalandra: A Frame Of Mind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Kalandra are a special breed of band, musicians, haunting lyrics and melodies that flow with the breeze that has combined two distinct planes of existence, one that dominates the heart and the mind, and by doing so they have understood A Frame Of Mind few of us are able to explore with certainty and belief.

Kalandra: A Frame Of Mind. Album Review. full post

(427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)