Category Archives: Music

Matthew Robb: History Before It Happens. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

There are those who will adamantly, and with great pride at their insight, insist that the world we live in is a simulation, that we should understand what is occurring and taking shape in front of our eyes because it has already been decreed, that history is just a program given shape and depth and then inserted into what we perceive as the present day…History Before It Happens in the making.

The Vincent Burke Trio: 10 By 3. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is such that to retreat to a comfortable space, to feel the warmth of fire that flickers in time with your heartbeat and to have a sound playing in your soul from the system of your choice, is not just an act of pleasure, it is a recommended pursuit of self-care; and when the music is the pace at which we set our personal clocks to, in which we find our rhythm aligns with the pulse of a discerning universe, then we know we are in the presence of masters.

My Life Story: Loving You Is Killing Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

One of the issues of unconditional love is knowing that if you don’t retain some semblance of identity, you could find yourself submerged, engulfed by the personality of the other; it is a fundamental understanding that people think of as part of their own life story, the sentence driven in a scream of independence, “Loving You Is Killing Me”.

Green Day: Saviors. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Life’s a riot when the world is in flames, for the urge to rebel and beat down the doors of every major institution, to ransack and remove from the super-rich the means of influence is what boils the blood, and yet we must be wary of those we proclaim as saviours, as the angels of mercy who act with the grin and the sleight of hand and offer us words and possible actions, whilst not actually providing the sustenance of existence in the new world they have planned out in the back of their minds.

Alice Di Micele: Interpretations Vol 1. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We must be resolute in our pursuit of being unique, even in the way we are guided by the voices of others, we must at all costs seek to stamp our own authority on what came before with matchless rarity, a dominating flavour that should be seen to all who observe as an exceptionality, as explosive as uncommon as a star entering its supernova stage just as we happen to look to the heavens.

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: Dark Rainbow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Somewhere over the rainbow there stands a pot of gold, but beware you don’t follow the wrong natural marvel in the sky, be cautious of the colours that slowly fade to black, because what is more valuable than an ingot taken from a pot and guarded by some unearthly creature, is the vessel released once you follow the Dark Rainbow, the one that Dorothy Gale herself would have had a finer time in awe of; especially if she had the opportunity to be thrust into the path of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes’ new and generously sublime offering, Dark Rainbow.

Dot Dash: 16 Again. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the midst of the eternal grumble by those who didn’t make the most of their youth, to be 16 Again is an emotional declaration that we can mostly all agree with as we look to the moments where our mistakes are magnified, and our missed opportunities regretted to the point of exhaustion.

Fran Ashcroft: The Songs That Never Were. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

All that never was alludes us, not because it hasn’t been acknowledged, but because it has been carefully constructed so it might allude us, never making itself clear until we are ready to have our souls rocked by the revelation and the passion that strides into our lives with confidence and no illusion.

The Miserable Rich: Overcome. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Until it happens to us, we can never be sure how we would triumph or yield to that which we seek to make approaches to in restoring a friendship that had been allowed to falter, or one that had been broken by time; how we Overcome our own dystopian grievances and turn back the clock in order to move forward is very much up to the presence of empathy and how your soul requires peace and adventure with those who understand you better than anyone else in the world.

False Tracks: Hymn For Terror. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The pulpit is always on hand for the false declaration raised to the dark skies from the shaking fist and the determined growl of the priest more in tune with trembling the souls of the unenlightened than it is for soothing words from those whose words are placed with care before the crowd and urging the truth to be dispensed as they sing Hymns For Terror and odes and to human joy.