Category Archives: Music

Clay DuBose: Father Time & Mother Nature. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When the artist insists that creating a moment is its own reward, you can either believe them and revel in their vision, or you can scoff silently, or with an unbecoming arrogance, and whisper that artists are only are ever in it for the fame, the fortune, and the favour. It is not quite the argument of flat Earth or the footsteps on the moon that seems to divide humanity, but it is one that vexes the purist and the emotionally satisfied find perplexing to deal with, for how can art be anything other than commercially free and intellectually stimulating.

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

The Fast Camels: Lost To This World. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The sense of wonder is in danger of being Lost To This World because we have become attuned to the simplicity of cynicism, the lure of scorn, and the creativity of suspicion that we have become representative of in our reckless pursuit of abandoning the very essence of human creativity, of no longer seeing the poetic heart as beautiful, and treating absence of the imagination as a sacrifice for false knowledge.

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

Suzi Quatro: Freedom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A long and distinguished career, a time of great musical fortune, and considered to be across the board one of the queens of rock, that is the blessed realisation that the listener finds when looking back at the professional life of America’s Suzi Quatro; but it is in the aftermath of life’s greatest highs that we find the Freedom in just being ourselves, or rightly being understood that the path we were on was always the one that lit up the room, that created liberty for others to follow.

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

Gypsy Pistoleros: Dark Faerie Tales. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Rule books be damned. Take the blueprint of the ages and do the most honest thing we can in a period of time that is not just in flux, but actively breaking at the seams of credible moderation and instead is insisting we see the rules as unbendable orders that we play the game to age old dictates at the detriment of our own growth…we throw that rule book on the fire and look to a time of more honest understanding, those with mysteries and fierce Dark Faerie Tales holding our hearts.

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

H. Jack Williams. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When hope becomes grounded, when it feels more than the stirring of potential and optimism, that is when we proudly place our name to the endeavour we have been pursuing, when we state our intentions as more than honourable, but a promise in action…that is the point at times of the self-titled release; a short step from the placing of the subjective singular approach, a more enlightening and channelling of the exhibition of artistic renaissance to come.

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

The Pale White: Inanimate Objects of the 21st Century. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Why do we place so much faith in the apparently soulless, why do we show such devotion to the constancy of the hum of the electric heartbeat, pray to the lifeless length of time unresponsive friendship that a television or radio can provide…it is almost as if we understand our connections to the Inanimate Objects of the 21st Century are not only deep rooted, but a stage of slow evolution that is being guided by a pulse out of reach to the naked eye but felt intensely.

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

Emily Portman: Dominion Of Spells. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The authority of the human heart and mind must forever hold sway and opinion in all things against the growing strain of artificial intelligence, the Dominion Of Spells, the word, the influence of art that comes from enchantment and incantation alike, are to be seen as sacrosanct, fiercely embedded in truth and one that comes from the belief of the stroke of fortune that we are able to breath life into the armour of collected tales and those that weave a narrative together.

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(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Dana Fuchs: Live In Denmark. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Long held up as one of the modern powerhouse Blues singers of her generation, Dana Fuchs’ authentic, intense voice, her inflamed charm and enticing presence on stage, and in the studio, has marked her card as perhaps being a rival to long missed Sheffield megastar Joe Cocker, feminine but filled with the sovereignty, the engine of a Rolls Royce, as she punches home every drop of blood from the words and guitar with fortitude and fierce cool.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Squeeze: Trixies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Life seen through the eyes of young men, of teenagers with the whole world waiting at their feet should be a joyous musical occasion. Instead, it often turns their vision to a physical concept that would underline just how the times and the political situation has shaped them, forced them to see in the end life not as carefree and filled with possibility, but instead as a series of tales weaved together tempered by experience and delusion.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Karl McCann: Trial By Versions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The enormity of the project that Karl McCann has undertaken is evident as he follows up his previous releases, including Put It All Behind You and It Was Only A Dream with an impressive insight into the way we perhaps understand music as listeners and how an artist can pull you into seeing, witnessing a kind of metamorphosis of intention and belief of the personal epic, of pushing the artistic boundary beyond the comfortable but producing something rather incredible.

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