Category Archives: Music

A Man Called Adam: The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart is one in need of attention, that requires care and nurturing, for the hole could be a void, it could be the missing part that makes her see the world with a different mindset, and one only cured by listening to her voice as she allows those feelings to escape, to flood the body with the love she has always wanted to share with another soul.

That sense of sharing, of offering, comes thick and fast in the brand-new album from the electronica legends, A Man Called Adam.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom: The Way You Look At Me. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all want that moment, be it for a brief period in our lives, or if we are fortunate, a sense of relief that lasts years, even a lifetime. There is no emotional satisfaction that comes close, no gut-wrenching honesty that survives and offers hope than when you can say to someone who loves you that “The Way You Look At Me” makes me want to be a better person.

Gareth Heesom: The Way You Look At Me. Single Review. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Peter Cox: Seaglass. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are glass shaped by time rather than the permanent waves of water that pound the debris of celebration into shape; and yet if we are fortunate, we end up the same, we are smoothed, levelled, and in rounded into shape of that which can best serve humanity rather than being the image of the rutted an craggy, the sharp end which cuts and slices into the flesh of others as we walk over them, as we leave an imprint of desperation on the shores of time.

Peter Cox: Seaglass. Album Review. full post

(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton: Death Wish Blues. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Those Death Wish Blues will get you in the end, but until that time when the clocks reach their appointed hour you have the chance, the sublime opportunity to delve into two of the modern greats as they combine their incredible talent in an album that beats down the door of frustrating and riddled inelegance that has come to define an era dominated somewhat by the bland and crafted lyrical dullness.

Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton: Death Wish Blues. Album Review. full post

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

Toyah: Live At Drury Lane. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

In one of the great mysteries of life, the fans of one of Birmingham’s finest musical ambassadors, the scintillating and unique Toyah Willcox, have always been left wondering why one of the most memorable performances of her early career was never given the aural treatment it deserved. Why it seemed to appear on every other format except the one it mattered on, the vinyl love it required to truly capture an icon at the height of her powers and majestic best.

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(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band: Rise Again. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never allow yourself to stay down for too long, for the view is arguably addictive and the memories that accompany it are full of warmth and dangerously comforting.

Rise Again, step into the zone you are only vaguely familiar with, rise once more and find the place where industry meets imagination, and allow the feelings of passion for the new run its course and where it leads to discovery.

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

Thunder: Laughing On Judgement Day. (2023 Vinyl Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The labours of Hercules are often painted as a Greek romance, of the depths someone will go to prove their worth, or to atone for some misgiving. However, if we are to compare modern endeavours with that of Greek legend, then surely Sissyphus and the unstoppable boulder would be more of a direct analogy.

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

Thunder: Back Street Symphony. (2023 Vinyl Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The demonstration of intent when it comes releasing your debut album is bound by a kind of artistic law that states it must show the confidence that is full of gravitas and punch, that if it fails to deliver a groove or the belief of scope and majesty required, then what you have created is not worth the life you have spent honing and perfecting your words, not setting the tone to which honours the pain and joy that your existence has endured so far.

Thunder: Back Street Symphony. (2023 Vinyl Reissue). Album Review. full post

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

Shakin’ Stevens: Re-Set. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

At least once in a person’s life, the wish to hit the Re-Set button is one they cannot ignore. They may plod on for a time in the usual manner, appearing to the world with a smile and a look of contentment, but the human spirit that dwells within will only burn for so long before it requires re-adjusting to the understanding that it needs to start again, not completely, but at the point where in the heart they may feel they wandered off the path of promise and hope and into the wilderness of appeasement and allowing others to misuse their good intentions.

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(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Ana Popovic: Power. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We give power to that which makes us understand what drives us and to which can give us nightmares as we live in a waking state of fear and breakdown. This duality of life is to be expected…how we deal with it is where each person’s distinctive command, their circle of friends and lived ones, combine to bring peace to the mind of those caught in the spiral of living half in and half out of their soul for a while as events threaten to overtake them.

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(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)