Category Archives: Music

Danni Nicholls: Under The Neem Plum Tree. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Inspiration is such a gift that invariably the best kept preserves that we squirrel away in our minds come from those we are often closest to, in spiritual deed, in family pastimes.

Danni Nicholls exemplifies the almost delicate way in which a family’s influence during play can stimulate a love for certain kind of groove in the young, the experience introduced at an influential stage will bind them to the beauty, to the desire of exploring, changing, altering in style that which catches their ear; and in her wonderfully composed album, Under The Neem Plum Tree, Ms. Nicholls sharply focuses on the artistic inheritance handed down from her Grandmother and the songs that made the family sing with joy.

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

Mark Harrison Band: Fools & Clowns. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you’re going to get stuck in the middle with someone then you should always demand that it is someone who fill your mind with ideas so complex that it makes you a better person; but too often we fall for the empty musings of Fools & Clowns…the near unhinged chants of the deranged and the hopeless that somehow, like sirens, catch us in their nets and cause us to sit long legged and loose limbed on sides that we know we normally would avoid.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Visions Of Albion: The Heat. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is about withstanding pressure, but we must remember that despite thinking of ourselves as diamonds, we are not coal to be forced to perform a miraculous physical alteration, a metamorphosis that sees us shine and gleam; we are human, the traits, the anxieties, the illusions, and the moments of brilliance are born of a different kind of pressure, one created by The Heat, but also the cold whispers of affection and love.

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

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Beautiful Ugly. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A small raised voice is often lost in a world full of soundbites and political dogma, the drive to creating a nation, a society which doesn’t think, doesn’t read for pleasure, has no understanding of art, music, of interaction with the dark feelings that lead to the exposure of light is happening around us…it is an ugly, flat, agitating on the subservient, beige intoxicating fundamental march to a place with no imagination, a lack of creativity, and the only sculptures being raised are those to whom are approved by government and drawn by public appeal.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Bywater Call: Shepherd. Alum Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

As a thunderstorm rolls in from the distance you can feel the static charge dance on your skin as the minute hairs stand to attention, as they become alert to the danger, to the spectacle to come.

That sense of heightened appreciation for the natural and the fear that stokes the possibility of being energetically and spiritually aroused by the demonstration of power that is evidently going to blow your socks off and put life in your heart, is not confined to the spark of a tempest created by the elements, but of the human flood of emotions when art captivates so generously, so intimately, and which resonates from every pore and muscle straining sinews and vessels which capture the mood entirely.

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(379 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Mr. Big: Ten. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

All the pins at the end of the alley are primed and ready for the polished ball that is on its way to display on the electronic board the continuing running total of the players involved, the opportunity for line full of flawlessness always at the back of the mind, ready to be celebrated, prepared to be praised for the gameplay of the acclaimed and the sense of the perfect Ten.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Twentytwentysix: Fake It Tlll You Make It. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The poetic form is more than just a delivery service for expression, more than an emotional tool to wield in which hearts a set a flutter and the mind is embroiled in the majesties of love and disregard; it is the reason we do anything in life that has observance at its core, why some will deeply allow their resonance to be captured for the eternity in the shape of pleasure even if they are all but speaking of a kind of mundane existence, or the beauty in the ordinary.

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

Cigarettes After Sex: X’s. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In some eyes, even a simple x at the bottom of a letter can display more than the writer may have intended, the imagination of the covert and furtive looking for the signs and symbols of a life lived to excess, of the additional effort placed in clandestine response to a love undeclared.

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(357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

John Jenkins: Dressing Up The Truth. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We have an obligation to the past that in some ways could be construed as damaging, but perhaps actually helps act with a greater sense of affirmation and self-belief that in which our souls are bound; for in every action we partake in or willingly pursue with solo ambition, the reality is that someone else remembers it differently, whether by a greater exactness, or by the swirling clouds of existence we are arguably only Dressing Up The Truth of our memory.

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

Graham Gouldman: I Have Notes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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We either fall into the category of being writers and observers who put pen to paper without a plan, through the persuasive power of the subconscious and narrative of the dreamer who wishes to bring joy and peace to the proceedings, and those who seek absolute dedication to the cause, the required belief, the no nonsense exploration of the just in terms of qualified and unadulterated…There is no in between, only the rigid and the fluid.

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