Category Archives: Music

Gillan:1978-1982. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One of the few frontmen of rock to have found success across a myriad of bands or indeed been at the helm of a group that carried his name, not once, but on three separate occasions, performing on the Black Sabbath album Born Again, and being part of one the big names in rock in three different eras…never standing still, never allowing time to catch up with him…and in that Ian Gillan deserves the accolades and fandom he has continually found, nurtured, and given all for.

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(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Marie Davidson: City Of Clowns. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We live in a microcosm that is ruled by psychopaths and sick-minded individuals, a town hall filled with fools and inhabited by a City Of Clowns bent on anarchy and chaos of the mind. It’s perhaps to the make-up of these lawlessness states of being that the scathing nature of Marie Davidson’s brand-new album hits home with such power, with a scathing rebuke of the antagonist shaking their head at the insanity of it all.

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

Jethro Tull: Curious Ruminant. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is our own fault, we have become a species of reaction and not of deep contemplation, we are slaves to the emotion and we have given up our right to the reflective, the speculative, and musing of life; instead of thought, we have assumption and rumour, and neither are true deliberations on how humanity should see themselves or act in the future.

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(477 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks Live- Perpetual Change. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Perpetual Change is good, it is the reason for revolution, it is the uninterrupted flow of time that offers us a perspective of the new in motion and the past as a constant, ceaseless reminder of the beautiful and the desired that walks beside us in our waking lives.

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks Live- Perpetual Change. Album Review. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Steven Wilson: The Overview. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One of the most prolific musicians, producers, and remixers returns from the studio armed yet again with an album full of detail, and with an overview that is expansive, distinctive, and perhaps in the vein of the Progressive giants who weaved the music with such an intricacy that the idea of two songs that are bound by studious length and uniqueness of continual ambition.

Almost fearless, Steven Wilson’s eighth solo studio album is an expansive definition of the Progressive genre, two tracks that are inspired by the heavens, the overview effect that is experienced by astronauts looking back at our lonely planet from the darkness of space.

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(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Sylvie Lewis: Lives Wisely. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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To live with wisdom is arguably the point of our existence; and yet so few people truly engage with that mindset, preferring instead to live vicariously, happy to be spontaneous but with no purpose in their short walk through the woods of life.

It is only perhaps when that spontaneity is halted, paused as the world turns with a miracle of life or the sudden damnation of a society on the fringes of panic, disillusion, and bad decisions, that they see the wise choices in the rear-view mirror and the pain of regret that comes with it.

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(411 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Filkin’s Drift. Glan. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Inspiration should never be planned or deliberate, it should strike at the mind and soul as a gift from a Muse, it should present itself as one finds themselves suddenly greeted by the sight of clear, drinkable water after a slog through the desert with only mirages and apparitions for company.

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

The Mexican Standoff: Hola Texas! Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Everything is, as the native’s will always espouse, ‘bigger’ in Texas, and in time honoured fashion that statement is given its test and found to be, with respect, almost true. From the wide-open skies to the sense of freedom that the state demands, part of the United States of America but seeing itself as its own functioning country, the sense of life size is everywhere, and even in the humble there is a drive that confounds the onlooker, but which makes absolute sense to those who understand the heritage and the legacy of those who call the state, home.

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

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band: Making Moves. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Making Moves, an aspect of human life that shows our intent to strive for a higher plane, to understand that whilst occasionally we might need to rest, we must never sit long enough that the belief in our purpose is replaced by the temptation to settle, we must forever see life as a mysterious adventure, not as a couch worn away by the imprint of our remains and established habit.

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

Nik Kershaw: The MCA Years. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

NIK KERSHAW - MCA YEARS 11 DISC BOX SET 10CD/1DVD - New 10CD - B4z - Picture 1 of 1

It could be argued that the flourishing appearances of the artist’s complete works in boxset form is down to age, to nostalgia, and dare it be mentioned, the possibility of exploitation by the companies that may own the rights to the music, to the songs that certain generations came to hang their love and dreams upon. Perhaps this is more prevalent now for Generation X and those that came into their own musically during the period of the 70s and 80s, for not a week seems to go past where a hero of the age is repackaged in all their glory for the masses to soak up the sound, the memory allowed to resurface, and the years, those decades between, once more attended to in full glorious colour.

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(477 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)