Category Archives: Music

Lewis Fieldhouse, Born Human, Raised Human. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sat in front of a stereo, or stood in a venue under the glaringly sympathetic eye of the performer   and listening to music is perhaps the best slice of Heaven any human being can hope to have. It transcends almost any other pursuit save actually playing the often exquisite notes and receiving the nods of hopeful approval from the listener. Although the word divine brings up the idea of something celestial or perceived God-like state, it is as close to the delight you feel when listening to Lewis Fieldhouse’s new E.P.  Born Human, Raised Human.

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(294 words, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

The Rides, Can’t Get Enough. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When one door closes on a the time of a supergroup, a window slides open somewhere with enough room for another to wiggle their way into the hearts of the music buying public’s affections. So one group stops, another all-star line-up is more than ready and extremely adept at keeping the music flowing and In The Rides, comprising of legendary musician Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills and Nash, Buffalo Springfield), the incomparable Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Blues and Rock survivor Barry Goldberg (Electric Flag), the music flows on Can’t Get Enough as if being conducted by a master infront of the world’s finest orchestra.

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

Asking Alexandria, From Death To Destiny. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * *

With a crack of wandering displaced electricity, the imagined smell of discharged cordite hanging sheepishly in the air and the heavy anticipation flowing through the veins, the sound of Asking Alexandria’s latest album, From Death To Destiny, cautiously makes its way through the wires and detonates with a force of neutron star fading and its potency being slightly smothered with a well-used pillow.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Pete Thomas & The Horns A Plenty, Big. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * * *

When Pete Thomas says Big, he doesn’t just mean huge, enormous or giant like, he means Big, emblazed in bright neon lights, all signs pointing his way and saying that there is no other show in town for the foreseeable future and all tickets are sold out. A sound that encompasses the vastness and drive in which Pete Thomas & The Horns A Plenty take up residence in your soul and make your heart skip in time to the music in such a way that it is hard to imagine there being space for anything else in your head. Such is the power of Big, such is the power of the big band feel.

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

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Are We Here? E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sometimes to appreciate what music from a city offered you, you have to delve fully into its past. You have to find out what worked and turned the population’s heads and captured the spirit of the time, the elusive zeitgeist that pops its being round at the seemingly most opportune times and captures the soul of the city.

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

Federal Charm. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

British Blues Rock has never seemed healthier. Perhaps it’s the times the nation is living through and experiencing or it may just be because a generation of performers, sick and tired of the same old thing have gone in search of a musical utopia and bought back a message from the past which says this stuff is very cool, why did we ever abandon it?

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

The Hummingbirds, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The sheer magnetism that runs through The Hummingbirds, whether in their live sets which sets the pulses racing as if being hooked up to the national grid or in the studio recordings which just seem to get better and better, certainly marks them out as being part of the new breed, the surging confidence in music from Merseyside.

Their latest self-titled E.P. release epitomizes this and once more the band has come up with a set of music which has been strung together in timeless fashion and made to resemble a piece of work that gets pawed at, eyes glowing with anticipation as the prospect of each song coming through the speakers is nothing short of tantalising.

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(377 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Alela Diane, About Farewell. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

The name and music of Alela Diane might be lost on the vast majority of people in the U.K., in the same way that some of these isles more eclectic and diverse musicians might be mislaid or even missing from the American subconscious. It doesn’t mean they should be dismissed, it just means that the ocean that divides a common tongue is sometimes just that little too wide, too expansive for a great ship to traverse.

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

The Fireflys, Embers Of The Autumn. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Runcorn may be famous for one thing in particular but the bridge that crosses the Mersey and brings people from the south of the country into the heart of the cultural heartland of England also brings forth its own scene, its own art that fends off the thought of being completely absorbed and overwhelmed by its near neighbour. In The Fireflys, there is the talent to give the town its own home sprung heroes and in their latest album, Embers of The Autumn, there is a voice, a displacement of rich guitar and a beat that goads others into following them and sounds just utterly cool and insatiable.

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

Joe Symes And The Loving Kind, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are some bands that just typify a new way of thinking by recognising and acknowledging the past. The sound they create and bring together is the special blend that others strive for but quite often gets lost in a murky and heady fog of ideas. For Joe Symes and The Loving Kind, the amalgam of 21st Century life in their home city of Liverpool and the consideration of what made the city stand out as the musical powerhouse of the country go hand in hand on their exciting and astonishing self-titled debut album.

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