Category Archives: Music

Harrison Drive: Harrison Drive. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Contrary to popular belief, not all roads lead to Rome, some have the extraordinary fortune to defy the straight progression and are able to double back on themselves to restart the journey, to offer a moment of reflection whilst the engine turns over, and then, with passion, restart in earnest and with the vehicle of expression in fifth gear, storm the future as Rome only beckons if part of a European tour, and with satisfaction that where you started in Harrison Drive was the most important stop along the way.

Harrison Drive: Harrison Drive. Album Review. full post

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

Only Murders In The Building. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Amy Ryan, Jayne Houdyshell, Teddy Coluca, Michael Cyril Creighton, Jackie Hoffman, Cara Delevingne, Vanessa Aspillaga, Ryan Broussard, Tina Fey, Adina Version, Nathan Lane, Russell G. Jones, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, James Caverly, Daniel Oreskes, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Rapaport, Jaboukie Young-White, Christine Ko, Ariel Shafir, Ali Stoker, Ade Oyukoya, Orson Hong, Kirk Kelly, Jane Lynch, Shirley MacLaine, Andrea Martin, Amy Schumer, Paul Rudd, Mark Consuelos, Wakeema Hollis.

Only Murders In The Building. Series Two. Television Review. full post

(615 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Hugh Cornwell: Moments Of Madness. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Every one of us is capable of suffering Moments Of Madness, just as we are qualified to wreck someone’s day by just a simple act of unthinking, or causing devastation by being placed into a position of responsibility that leaves the country in a mess, and the whole world laughing at your response.

Every day we see others create an issue, an unthinking drama that unfolds because they switched off their brains and allowed air to fill up their minds, and that moment of madness becomes replayed in the modern age on social media platforms the wide world over.

Hugh Cornwell: Moments Of Madness. Album Review. full post

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

Neil Campbell: Faldum. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Eventually all is peace, even in the mind of the author and scribe who have spent their entire lives creating worlds that are mirrors to our own, or satires and punishments that the written word can hope to destroy lethargy, corruption, exhaustion, and intolerance, all must be that we become like the sturdy mountains of old, resolute, finite, towering over the lives of the people below…silent as sunlight watching water evaporate.

Neil Campbell: Faldum. Album Review. full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Let Spin: Thick As Thieves. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Words are powerful, they are the cornerstone of communication, without them what is intimated is often lost in maelstrom of contact, an empty e-mail expecting the reader to understand their task, a map without context, a song with no feelings or regrets…words are the basis of conversation and mean the world in a place of silence.

Let Spin: Thick As Thieves. Album Review. full post

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

Lightning Seeds: See You In The Stars. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Only when it is completely dark, do you realise how much you have neglected the stars.

Neglect is everywhere, in love, in decency, in hope, in time, it is the silence that accompanies the memory that we are so busy making sure we stay afloat, that we have forgotten to see the potential above us; and whether it is born out of destruction caused by others, or by our own feelings of damage, of desecration of the spirit by the darkness we allow to stop us from seeing others in the heavens.

Lightning Seeds: See You In The Stars. Album Review. full post

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

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Return Of The Dream Canteen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

It could be the fault of the listener, after all tastes change and styles must evolve, and for the most part a music lover will go with the flow so far, and then discover quite by accident that their appreciation has waned; what they held dear has become an untethered support, it has become a drama of expensive cool.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Return Of The Dream Canteen. Album Review. full post

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

Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners: Too-Rye-Ay – As It Should Have Sounded. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It makes you wonder how many artists are forced to downplay their true vision just have their creation even in the public domain, how many writers allow a significant event to be pulled, how many painters are told to lose a certain temperament, what percentage of musicians are told if they wish to have their belief heard then they have to allow it to be altered by the studio, the P.R. machine, or the one who pricks their thumbs for the contract to be signed in blood.

Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners: Too-Rye-Ay – As It Should Have Sounded. Album Review. full post

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

Foxton & Hastings: The Butterfly Effect. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

What was once familiar will always come round again, only this time with an edge to it that will the reminisces feeling overwhelmed, and the new sound embracing the time-honoured as if it was a frequent visitor that had all the answers to the questions being asked.

From The Jam to working alongside a captivating frontman. This is establishment of the genius that Bruce Foxton has come to signify, and in his partnership with Russell Hastings has flourished accordingly, and the strength of their time together on stage has only enhanced what is evident in their new album, The Butterfly Effect.

Foxton & Hastings: The Butterfly Effect. Album Review. full post

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

Sunjay: Black & Blues Revisited. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are those that understand, and then there are those who are wrong. To willingly open up and admit that the soul is suffering is not the act of misery, or the excess of emotions that some will describe as wallowing in self-pity or indulgence, it is heroism, it is accepting that the blues are part and parcel of a life that requires growth after the despair, of the personal unhappiness, and that even to be seen as melancholic is a finer attribute than to be shown as a sneering, unfeeling monster whose appalling lack of empathy for another human being in distress is revealed as those who lack judgment, who only wish to revisit constant harm upon the soul.

Sunjay: Black & Blues Revisited. Album Review. full post

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