Category Archives: Music

Filter, The Sun Comes Out Tonight. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Richard Patrick is back to his very best as Filter prepare to release their sixth album The Sun Comes Out Tonight. It seems an absolute age since Filter come out with all guns blazing, the music a weapon ready to be exploded onto the music buyer’s consciousness and turn their emotions inside out with the pulsating and riveting sound which is only matched by some of the great lyrics that was a hall mark, even if did court some controversy in songs such as Hey Man Nice Shot.

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

Chthonic, Bú-Tik. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In amongst all the areas in which the Metal world resides, whether the old guard of the U.K. and America through to the new emerging and sometimes surprising steel fortresses of France, Norway and Sweden, it can be quite easy and utterly shameful, to forget that Metal in any guise is loved all over the world. It is not something that just purely belongs to one particular set of fans or even one country. Perhaps nowhere is this better typified than in the Taiwanese band Chthonic and their fast paced, vocally crunching and bitter but well placed rage that chokes the life out of pretenders to the throne of Eastern Metal.

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(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Iron Maiden, Piece Of Mind. 30th Anniversary Retrospective.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As debuts go, Bruce Dickinson’s first album with Iron Maiden, The Number Of The Beast was and still is, a huge success, a towering behemoth full of stand-out Metal songs that even after 30 years can make the hair on the back of the neck not just stand up but revel in what the band put together. To follow that up would take something monumental, something that would have to crawl out of the pit of darkness and shine a light on the group that Iron Maiden were to come.

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(1448 words, estimated 5:48 mins reading time)

In The Guise Of Men, Ink. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

French Metal is being cunning. No matter which part of the various guises the genre sits, the music it is offering to the spectrum, the diverse range in which the sounds plays in, it is slowly and surely eroding, eating away at the idea that only the U.K., North America and North Europe is truly capable of offering music to the masses. On the back of Eyrn Non Dae’s fantastic album Meliora, the stage is set for French Metal to rival that of the other bourgeoning scene that is coming out of Norway and Sweden and who better than In The Guise Of Men and their E.P. Ink which was released in April.

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

Beth Hart And Joe Bonamassa, Seesaw. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If any woman around today can cope with the pressure, albeit pleasurable and gratifying, of performing alongside producer Kevin Shirley and perhaps the finest Blues/Rock guitarist of the last 20 years in the form of Joe Bonamassa then Beth Hart is that woman. The gutsy and fiercely independent lady matches the intensity of Joe Bonamassa’s guitar and the strength that he quietly carries around, a man who could walk into a room and turn heads but would be reserved enough to point to his musical weapon and say that’s the star.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Schemata Theory, Dry Lung Rhetoric. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Dry Lung Rhetoric and Schemata Theory, a marriage of names that combined could make the listener of the great days of British Metal and the world of thrash just that little bit more excited for the future of the genre and not look with envious eyes abroad to the Nordic lands and to France where the scene is burgeoning and being treated with the respect it deserves.

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(344 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Alison Moyet, The Minutes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It has been six years since Alison Moyet, one of the greats of 1980’s electro pop, last released an album. During that time though she has not sat still, put her feet up and pined for a time which saw her at the forefront of female music icons from the U.K. the music has been carefully worked upon and time has been taken to make sure that the new album, the minutes (sic), is of the same high quality that her previous albums have had thrust upon them.  

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

Caro Emerald, The Shocking Miss Emerald. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Whisper it quietly, for the music and voice will do the rest, Ms. Caro Emerald is a force to reckoned with and someone who on the strength of her debut album and this new offering, The Shocking Miss Emerald might just bring a new set, numbering in the multitude, back to the fun and honest immorality of  Swing/Jazz.

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

Pistol Annies, Annie Up. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There seems to be a new revolution in the heartlands of American Country Music. In the same way that in 2012 women led the way in revolutionising Blues to the point that nearly every album released by a woman outweighed the influence of their male counterparts, American Country Music has taken note, learned from the new rules and come up with some scintillating and interesting albums. Kacey Musgroves undoubtedly holds the pivotal position so far of for album of the year in the genre but Pistol Annies, a tight collection of three of the great new things of women of country, give an excellent account of themselves and make the genre such a pleasure at times to listen to.

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

Roy Dahan, Some Of This Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When Roy Dahan has something to say it is better to switch off every appliance that can disturb your train of thought for an hour, get whatever beverage you need to sustain you for the period of time allotted, close the curtains and sink back onto your bed or favourite chair and take in every word of Some Of This Life because at the end of the day the man’s hauntingly beautiful words will transport you far beyond these shores and to a land of mystique and tranquil repose.

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(382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)