Category Archives: Music

Jackson Williams: Remember To Buy Yourself Flowers. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Self-care maybe a modern train of thought, but it is one that is vitality important; for even at a basic level, if you can’t love yourself, then how can you love another.

We are caught in a dichotomy, a gulf of contradiction. There will be those that insist on informing you that you are being selfish for even thinking of yourself before others, even when you are at the point of exhaustion, of falling down, they will point the finger and swear to Heaven and Earth are self-serving and egotistical.

Jackson Williams: Remember To Buy Yourself Flowers. Single Review. full post

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

Transatlantic: The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you know its final then you make a conscious effort to enjoy the maximum effort you can in the wake of the mighty ship of emotions you will be faced with; and even if there is no announcement of the end, you can often tell that the chances are that what you hear, what you experience has a ring of certainty about it. The final flight of a beautiful, impressive machine, one that has taken to the skies and been lauded for its creative posture, is always one covered in glory, and the melancholy of its place in the hearts of those touched by her.

Transatlantic: The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia. Album Review. full post

(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Robert Palmer: The Island Record Years. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In September 2003, a small corner of Paris announced the news that Robert Palmer, vocalist of Vinegar Joe, an enigmatic solo performer, who had fronted the supergroup The Power Station, the Yorkshire born star, had passed away at the age of only 54.

Robert Palmer: The Island Record Years. Album Box Set Review. full post

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

Marauder: Metal Construction VII. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never demolish or tear apart what others have spent a lifetime building, only they have the right to look upon their creation and deem it a construction not worthy of their time…all we have the right to do is either keep our council, or praise in such a way that is truthful, that is honest.

Critically such an approach does not nobody favours, least of all the intricacy of the artist who places their work before a crowd and requires feedback in order to grow, to respond in kind when the Muse rears their head once more and shows a shapely aptitude to an novel idea.

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(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Paramore: This Is Why. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

This Is Why the evolution of a band must be allowed to run its course, for how else does an artist see a distant perspective and believe they can drive into it with fury and vigour in equal measure if they aren’t given the space to explore, to rejuvenate, to re-emerge in a different light.

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(359 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

The Willow Trio: The Swan of Salen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

At some point in the future our descendants will look back on the period of post-World War Two popular music and declare it be akin to how we perceive, for the most part, the realm of what we consider to be classical music; the words stuffy, inaccessible, even perhaps relic, certainly historical, will be tossed around by youths as much as for the last 70 years, teenagers, Generation X’s and beyond have insisted that the likes of Beethoven, Schuber, and Tchaikovsky are not relevant to the world today.

The Willow Trio: The Swan of Salen. Album Review. full post

(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Mary Elizabeth Remington: In Embudo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There may be a truth of ego when an artist feels a large gathering singing one of their songs word for word in front them, the pitch, the sentiment, the meaning all being echoed back, that surely is a buzz that speaks for itself, the large the voice the bigger the response.

Mary Elizabeth Remington: In Embudo. Album Review. full post

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

Rachel Baiman: Common Nation Of Sorrow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Perhaps for the first time since the dark days that shrouded Europe and much of the world, we are going through a period of time in human history that 90 percent of us are feeling an emotion that is akin to sorrow, a grief that we cannot explain, a regret we cannot describe, an unhappiness we don’t know how to shed; and yet we fight on, smiles plastered to our faces as if positioned there by a child with a crayon, an empty laugh forever hanging on our lips.

Rachel Baiman: Common Nation Of Sorrow. Album Review. full post

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

Sean Taylor Band: Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

By definition, a musician will slowly reveal their most intimate selves the more they shed others around them.

It is understandable that the group of friends who grew up together, rehearsed, argued, loved, made their statements of their youth and observations, should slowly drift apart and their worlds take on different meanings. As night follows day, the longer the musician stays in touch with the public, the more likely they are to have a solo career that outshines, at least critically, their former life within the structure of the band.

Sean Taylor Band: Live. Album Review. full post

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

Kaxio: Full Devoid. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Being normal and sticking to convention is not, and has never been, cool.

To be questioned on your approach to your vision rather than just blindly being accepted is a gift to which many are denied, and for whom far too many blindly wish to serve.

Why should the mysterious, the enigmatic, and the cryptic be solely for the preserve of the dark, for to enlighten the world we must seek to assure those who have a different artistic vision that they also will be heard in the open bright stage, that the Full Devoid lacks nothing in the eyes and soul of those who see the potential and the drama that will ensue.

Kaxio: Full Devoid. Album Review. full post

(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)