Category Archives: Music

Linda Moylan: The Fool. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The artist’s control is paramount when it comes to insisting that they do everything possible to complete the vision that they have played out in their head a thousand times, to deny the creator the image, the sound, the farsighted concept is to be seen surely as a crime against unique talent, as a complaint to The Fool who forbids and the Jester who rejects.

Pete Lambert: I Told You A Story. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

People will tell you a story for two different reasons, one is to exact a sense of sympathy, the other is to inform and display understanding; however, your words are taken though in the end cannot be down to your expression and sense of truth, but in the way the recipient feels the tale resonates with their own experience or their belief in you.

The Georgia Thunderbolts: Rise Above It All. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Album artwork for Rise Above It All by The Georgia Thunderbolts

F.E.A.R. as an acronym works well in our current state of human existence, and yet most will see it as an instruction to turn tail, to quit when the going has not only gotten hard, but more challenging a period of instability and cruelty of spirit than perhaps we have faced in the last 80 years; instead the approach, which is just as difficult, even as testing, but ultimately more satisfying, is to rise and meet the gruelling tasks head on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.