Category Archives: Music

Amy Hopwood: I’d Rather Be Older (Than Dead). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The vagaries of youth demand that we all look at the possibility of reaching a certain age as an almost impossibility, not denying the time spent on Earth, but the vents of frustration and niggles of pains that go hand in hand with it; it is the fine act of human balance called into question where with age comes wisdom but also arthritic knees, bad backs, and a host of other issues to which the user will complain, but to which with a smile and a song in the heart will explain that “I’d Rather Be Older (Than Dead)”.

Amy Hopwood: I’d Rather Be Older (Than Dead). Single Review. full post

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

Miss Emily: The Medicine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How do we know for certain what is The Medicine and what is the placebo, only by trial and error, by cause and control, and by taking notice of the effect the practise of listening to the mind and the soul has when taken with invited dose administered; this is the difference between that which makes you a truly better person rather than just being one who believes they are because they have been used as a sample.

Miss Emily: The Medicine. Album Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

It’s Karma Its Cool: One Million Suburban Sunsets. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The suburbs, a place once where aspiration meant social prosperity, a status and condition of overcoming what was perhaps intended and which became the abiding sanctuary for the dreams to unfold, for the belief that we might witness the event of One Million Suburban Sunsets take hold and see the stars reflected in our eyes.

Lincoln’s own stars shine ever brightly, a pace where four sons outperform the heat from those million sunsets, and dazzle with life in a way that the evensong of the celestials cannot touch; for in human endeavour the heavens may rise, but creativity and imagination trumps all.

It’s Karma Its Cool: One Million Suburban Sunsets. Album Review. full post

(364 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Lester Young: Lester Leaps In : Live At Birdland 1951-52. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It has always been as such that legends of yesteryear become myths in the end, or if the worst-case scenario be realised, they become phantoms, beings of skill and devotion who are forgotten by later generations, ignored as time’s sweeping hand saves but a few for permanent recognition.

The modern music fan may be consumed with striking their own clear path, lauding some, denigrating others, discounting the immensity of those that went before them, perhaps even declaring that noting that came before has any relevance to their life today; this is not only disingenuous, but also a dangerous belief to uphold.

Lester Young: Lester Leaps In : Live At Birdland 1951-52. Album Review. full post

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

Anthony Ruptak: Tourist. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are, by and large, a species that documents everything, from the smallest detail to the earth-shattering reveals that have shaped and formed our perceptions of the world, a moment’s certification of recorded thought in print or online can reveal much about the fractured notion of society, the modern world we inhabit, often scarily not participating in, but simply existing within.

Anthony Ruptak: Tourist. Album Review. full post

(399 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Kyle Carey: The Last Bough. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of strings has its own mystic, it is almost universal, and yet played by a unique heart it can convey every emotion from melancholic to the reflection of joy when the crescendo is reached, as profound emptiness is replaced with the miracle of birth; it is as if those scientists with theories of the structure of our existence have the notion of concept completely nailed down, that string theory is in essence the very fabric of music.

Kyle Carey: The Last Bough. Album Review. full post

(395 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Luvcat: Vicious Delicious. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

Liverpool doesn’t have the same access to the late great Victorian/Edwardian music halls that London has, but it is possible as the listener takes in the debut album from Luvcat, the vaudeville like demonstration of power and feverish exoticism that exists in worlds perhaps that linger more in the imagination, of old romantic theatres that were found in the East End of London as they were shrouded by mists, legends, and attitudes of the playful and the vaguely disconcerting; this is where

Luvcat: Vicious Delicious. Album Review. full post

(382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

David Gilmour: The Luck And Strange Concerts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The rarity of transition in a live album is rarely found in time, the sense of movement not coming from the players on stage, or the expression of sound, it comes from showcasing songs from different venues, different performances, alternative views from audience’s perspectives across time itself; this is an almost unique situation from one of Britain’s most celebrated musicians, and with his new album The Luck And Strange Concerts expertly melding his own colourful career with songs from Pink Floyd, what becomes evident is the proof of how music travels with a gift of perfection; a gift of unison unspoiled.

David Gilmour: The Luck And Strange Concerts. Album Review. full post

(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Sabaton: Legends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are few groups like Sabaton, ones to whom are willing, or indeed able to look at history’s most decisive moments, those that submit a kind of behind the scenes sense of delivery of the people at the heart of any struggle for freedom, or perhaps those whose sense of destiny was that of conquest wrapped in the false paint of glory and the desperation of subterfuge and reckoning, and in all fairness the group do it with extreme cool and a style that holds the world of power metal enthralled.

Sabaton: Legends. Album Review. full post

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

Dion: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Philosopher. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To praise a person for their life lived should always be shown by not only what they achieved for themselves but what they have done for others, that their life was one of empathy, of pushing others to reach a potential they might have thought impossible and most importantly being humble where the result of their kindness is concerned.

Dion: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Philosopher. Album Review. full post

(474 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)