Category Archives: Music

The Room: Restless Fate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Like riding a bike, once you have mastered an artform it never truly leaves you.

Time passes, sometimes too much for the artist to regain a semblance of balance between what they once produced and to what they wish to explore, to present, in the now; and yet there is the room to which sleep is denied with force, the place where a purpose never rests until it is examined, poured over, and delivered with as much affection and fortitude as once lit up every corner of the artistic apartment at hand.

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa: Tales Of Time. Album Review.

Joe Bonamassa Announces “Tales Of Time” Live Album Set | SonicAbuse

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When the iconic is caught between Time and a rock, the influences of stories and tales are sure to keep all enthralled as the clocks tick ever onward.

When the public talk of Joe Bonamassa, the father of 21st Century Blues is just as likely to be voiced and expressed as a musician of articulate iconography; it is inevitable, and it is in that direct impression that his albums have not only given the Blues its due recognition but impressed upon listener and artist alike of the validity of a genre that was in critical danger of fading from public view.

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(452 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Keith Thompson: Timeless Vol 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all have our own definition of timeless, that which lives during a period of abiding change undaunted by fashion, by the cruelty of every changing vogue, or by the temporary beauty moulded by the modern damnation of the influencer. To be timeless is to place above almost everything that which gives the most pleasure and accept that your life is a series of pulses caught at the right moment and which define your life’s work as well as your soul.

Keith Thompson: Timeless Vol 2. Album Review. full post

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

Ben Bostick: The Rascal Is Back. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In today’s world, being serious is not only seen as a virtue, but shows commitment to every cause that comes our way; we must be seen to appear stony faced, deflecting all that could be construed as silly, frivolous, demonstrative in the chambers of perpetual grimness, and never once find stuff, life, amusing anymore, in case we are seen to being on the side of humour heretics.

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(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Lucy Kruger And The Lost Boys: Heaving. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the face of anguish and turmoil, we can often be found to rise ourselves up to the person we wish to be seen by others as. It may be a face, it could be a mask, but the upheaval will bring out the best in us, to be seen Heaving the rock as if we are preparing it for Sisyphus to roll up a hill with grunts and muscles strains, is a badge of honour…

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

Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola: Sølvstrøk. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In life too much emphasis is placed upon hitting gold, of opening a seam that is flawless and filled with riches beyond anyone’s comprehension, the damage wrought to the individual as they dream of the precious metal can become like a sickness, urging them onwards until the scarcity value is dominant and unfulfilling.

We all carry our own shade of value, and perhaps it is a finer seam we strike when we look to the precious nature inherent in the sturdier and cleaner premise of consistency to be found and admired in silver mining, the allure of the polished material giving a sheen of endurance to which gold cannot stand against time; that of the silverstroke, the Sølvstrøk, which just requires care in which to gleam.

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(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Elton John: Honky Château. 50th Anniversary Re-issue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time is a construct displaying humanity’s absurd notion that if it can conquer a planet, then it can also be the master of the clock, of the minutes and seconds that ever present in nature; in the grand scheme of the apparent stillness of the universe, the world is only tune to the beat of the one who calls itself master, and that in which plays the tune to be heard in the Honky Château.

Elton John: Honky Château. 50th Anniversary Re-issue Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon – Live At Wembley 1974. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Never mind ten years that have passed in our struggle to fill Time, it is the half century of existence between points that can drive us to the edge of human madness.

Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon – Live At Wembley 1974. Album Review. full post

(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Jon Wilks: Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Therapy is undervalued, especially when it is one of your own making, your own source of companionship, your own place and time finding ways to defeat the false fears and ills that cloud our days and our souls; the damage wrought by the defeat in advance, the conscious, overwhelming beating before you have taken to the ring…these are the moments in which therapy, in caring for oneself, is to be applauded, urged, and followed through upon.

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

U2: Songs Of Surrender. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A poem is never truly finished, but despite the great Paul Valery’s insight, it is, in the hands of a master, never abandoned, it just waits for right moment to undergo a metamorphosis which transcends its original moment in time, and take on the appearance, the structure of a different period in which the artist can revaluate their place in history. Poetry, art is never finished, but it can undergo a transformation which gives the voyeur and listener alike a reason to keep fighting.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)