Category Archives: Music

Toyah: The Changeling. Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When an album has the feel of a concept perfectly weaved through it, and yet does not have the final essence that gives it that stamp of recognition, that is the sign of total mastery by the artist, and arguably what might be considered the best album of a career because of it.

Toyah, the undisputed Queen of Birmingham’s gig theatre experience, stepped out of the adulation received for the album Anthem, and perhaps found a different way to express her own feelings, her emotions, and turned the poetry and art within her rage to one which is almost Progressive, beyond verse, it is punk but with an extra emotional drama attached to it.

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(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa: Blues Deluxe Vol.2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Often a performer will acknowledge the influence of a band or songwriter in a way that an odd song will creep into their repertoire on stage or feature with a wistful air of appreciation on an album; it is a more than a nod to the past, it is a tribute that all who create art must admit to if they are to be seen as sincere and earnest about their craft.

Joe Bonamassa: Blues Deluxe Vol.2. Album Review. full post

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Brand New Heavies: Never Stop – The Best Of The Brand New Heavies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never Stop…for the moment you do you run the risk of people believing you have become an irrelevance, you become forgotten, only finding your name being mentioned in passing in a popular evening gameshow or recalled as the music for an arthouse film’s midway credits.

The Brand New Heavies: Never Stop – The Best Of The Brand New Heavies. Album Review. full post

(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Ian David Green: Songs To The Dust. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We scatter dust to the wind when time has reached its end, when that faithful friend has left us and we wish to ensure that they travel onwards, that their force, their soul, will keep being part of the world and all it can envision beneath its wings.

Ian David Green: Songs To The Dust. Album Review. full post

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

3: Rockin’ The Ritz: NYC 1988. Album Review. Album Reissue.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The brightest star can be seen for only a short time, that does not mean its value is diminished, it does not mean that it only exists in our memory for the least amount of time, it just reflects the volume of luminosity that it offered as its brief  reign was felt by all who saw it, who was influenced by its appearance, or who have only found its existence through the mention of a greater power. That star will be forever astonishing.

3: Rockin’ The Ritz: NYC 1988. Album Review. Album Reissue. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Huey Lewis & The News: Sports. 40th Anniversary Release. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

With all respect intended, the 80s were arguably the moment when popular music hit its absolute zenith. The 60s were magical, the 70s illuminating, but the 80s seemed to bring music completely to a different audience that required a diversity of sound, the first sense of expanding genres, blurring them, marketing them with aggression, the battle to be the hero or heroine on the walls of the new teenagers, the Generation X wave and to make the most of the new modes of delivering sound to the senses…that was the moment when it truly reached its moments.

Huey Lewis & The News: Sports. 40th Anniversary Release. Album Review. full post

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

Brimos: Intergalactic Hits Vol. 2 Wuhan. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Perhaps we are conditioned by what we hear when we envisage certain place names. To hear for example the city name of New York will light up the mind in response to dynamic abundance, of bright lights and big personalities; Paris will conjure up romance and revolution, of enlightenment, and Liverpool of solidarity, of art, and the willingness to fight for belief, and each of these places are captured righty in every detail through art, through song and lyric.

Brimos: Intergalactic Hits Vol. 2 Wuhan. Album Review. full post

(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Robin Trower: Joyful Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When titans combine, expect earthquakes and seismic activity that turns heads, allows the heart to swell, the mind to expand and feel the appreciation of different generations digging the cause of the art and which can take place as the gods approve as they dance and bless the mood under a Joyful Sky.

To bring together Robin Trower and Sari Schorr is a match suggested in the heavens and created with a sense of unrelenting beauty here on Earth, and the result is an album in which elevates the emotions of the Blues to a place where this unknown feels as though it was always going to be; the kismet, the fate, is a bliss of powers based in trust, commenced in belief, and delivered with resonating thrust

Robin Trower: Joyful Sky. Album Review. full post

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

Dom Martin: Buried In The Hail. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Hell is a good starting place for the righteous to start a revolution, but as the infernal pace freezes over and the snowball’s chance and the possibility of being Buried In The Hail proves the downfall of the devils and gods, so the main believers are afforded the time to state their case and show Hell the heaven that awaits.

Dom Martin: Buried In The Hail. Album Review. full post

(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours -Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are three generations of fans that never got to see Fleetwood Mac at their absolute undoubted pomp, at the moment where they had gold in their veins and the blood of destruction flowing through their hearts, and it is too that sense of mortifying time bound neglect that the feeling of never seeing the masters in their natural setting as the friction and love threatened to turn the band inside out, dawns upon the faithful.

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours -Live. Album Review. full post

(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)