Category Archives: Music

Kim Edgar: Consequences. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have forgotten a prime instruction in life, to tread softly upon this Earth. Not only the ground beneath our feet, but the hearts of potential loves we have come to insist on hitting the soul of another to leave a bruise, when all we truly need is to leave a good impression; and our environment we have come like chaos to damn it, to make it quake in the shadows as we peel away every layer of reason that gives us hope, that allows us the belief to be more than savage.

Kim Edgar: Consequences. Album Review. full post

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

When Rivers Meet: Christmas Is Here/It’s The Time Of Year. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The reflection of Christmas present is all well and good, indeed much needed in our particular viewpoint of the age, but it also requires the muscle, to be more than decoration, it insists on power, the toned carving knife of time to truly take the much-anticipated roast apart and give the punch and he sauce which the festivity truly deserves.

When Rivers Meet: Christmas Is Here/It’s The Time Of Year. Single Review. full post

(334 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Dick Eliot: Oh Holy Night. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Even for the heart that shuns the time of year, the soul that adamantly decries the season as anything other than a modern trap of debt and indentured servitude, there comes a moment that breaks the barriers down for a while and gives relief to the person who is willing to see past the crass commercialism and allow the human voice to fill their ears.

Dick Eliot: Oh Holy Night. Album Review. full post

(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band: Live At The Greek Theatre 2019. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The public understand that they are in a fortunate position when they see the curtain rise, when the first chord is struck, when the radiant smile of appreciation, groove, and love is flashed across the stage like a returning hero, for how often can we expect an all-time legend, arguably one of four men to whom their name shall be revered long after music history eats itself, and one to whom fills a room with more than just a song and a memory, but a vibe as well, to keep producing fantastic nights for the crowd given that time is always against us.

Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band: Live At The Greek Theatre 2019. Album Review. full post

(541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Cary Balsano: Not Like Sheeran. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Always be ready to take a step out of your comfort zone, as an artist, as a listener, it is a sacred duty to your mind and your soul that what you enjoy and practise is only the surface level of your endeavour, you must in effect go punk to stride forward; and if nothing else it will concentrate your thoughts on seeing a larger, more detailed picture evolve before your eyes.

Cary Balsano: Not Like Sheeran. Single Review. full post

(378 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Jim Pearson: Your Stupid Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never think your life is dull, never allow the thought that your existence in this world means little, or next to nothing, to take hold…all it takes is a single spark in the most unique of organs on the planet to prove that your life means more than what you have been led to believe, or even that in which the inner voice will elaborately whisper about what you conceive to be is Your Stupid Life, but in which lays the falsehood of an identity not wanting to reached, the imposter syndrome to which a mind has achieved greatness.

Jim Pearson: Your Stupid Life. Album Review. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Plague: Hope For The F.U.T.U.R.E. (2.0). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What was once a dream of shining spires, of mutual collaboration between countries, and a prospect of peace, learning, and undaunted exploration forged in the unfettered potential, has become a future that is uncertain, that is stranded somewhere between bleak and inaccessible, of opportunity dashed, and expectations lowered, slashed to the barest bone of life.

The Plague: Hope For The F.U.T.U.R.E. (2.0). Album Review. full post

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

Thom Morecroft: The Last Day You Left Home. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The place in the heart in which to carry Thom Morecroft is not only set aside, but completely reserved, preserved in amber maybe, stored with the knowledge that his songwriting will find a way to brighten the day, and even make the most melancholic of moments take on such a hue of colour that the  expression and depth created is simply magical, beautiful, an arrangement that defies almost any subject that is cared for deeply enough.

Thom Morecroft: The Last Day You Left Home. Single Review. full post

(286 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (2022 Deluxe Album Edition). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Between Private Dancer and Foreign Affair stood a woman who was willing to break every conceivable rule if it meant that she could have artistic and physical autonomy over every aspect of her personal and music life.

Rules are man-made, and it takes an artist, a woman of Tina Turner’s vision to smash them, to take the patriarchy apart and dictate that she cannot be controlled anymore, a message to all women, to all who feel the effects of being damaged by the man and the system.

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (2022 Deluxe Album Edition). Album Review. full post

(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Ever since the idea hit the first artist and studio executive, the concept of the live album has been rightly heralded as a boon; and at times an act of division. If left unchecked the reputation of a group would depend entirely on what is recorded in the spur of the moment, if not encouraged then many a music fan would never get to experience the sound in a venue, would never get to embrace the feeling of being like-minded individuals singing along to their favourite song as of taking part in a kind of communion, of sharing an intimacy.

Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More. Album Review. full post

(633 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)