Category Archives: Music

Laura Benitez And The Heartache: California Centuries. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We must understand that the utopia we crave is a nightmare for others, for if they lose control, if they lose the ability to silence us, then they would rather burn the world to a cinder than ever give us the chance to rectify their mistakes. We are told we are not able to understand the complexity of the problem, that it takes their keen sense of business, their drive alone that can banish the problems they created and lead us into a place where time is better spent.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Chicago: Born For This Moment. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

However you may view life, its various ups and downs, its trials, tribulations, its fierce traditions, and its unexpected triumphs, we see the moments that pass us by and wonder what if, only to realise later on down the road that something else entirely was the reason that you were born to tackle, that you Born For This Moment.

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(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick. 50th Anniversary Reissue.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Written as a response to the music press as the seminal album Aqualung was still deep in the minds of the listener, Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick is considered by many as the ultimate concept recording, and whilst fans and advocates of Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway or Pink Floyd’s The Wall might disagree with loud, and argumentative vocal voices, there can be no argument that what the members of the band put together in 1972 has resonated, found its way into folk lore, has become, in a word, legendary.

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(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Dynasty: Final Advent. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all make that final journey, be it a spiritual encounter when the breath is short, or the reckoning we have with our past, a final moment in the shade of our decisions, at dusk’s closing eye, we make the last moment count.

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

When Rivers Meet: The Flying Free Tour Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We don’t perhaps appreciate enough the facility and ease of modern technology that allows us to still to be able to believe in the power of being there, that we can in part spend time perhaps with our favourite artists via a world of the unhindered view and the less than appreciative interloper readied with a supply of drinks and inane, loud conversation.

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

Rusty Shackle: Under A Bloodshot Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The view from Under A Bloodshot Moon can often be more enlightening than that which illuminates brightly or even that which surprises in a Blue Moon serenade. It is the colour of reveal and rebellion, the phase of Earth’s satellite that conjures up images of war, of revolution, and sometimes, the warning of pleasure taken too seriously, and when that image is focused upon the desire to be taken in by the art on show is overwhelming and full of promise and delivery.

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

Joe Pug: Nation Of Heat -Revisited. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We should be grateful that we live in a time when the word mulligan can represent more than just a do over in a round of golf between friends.

An artist’s vision is to be respected, enjoyed, to be seen as the ultimate authority in the world they have created on canvas, in the darkness of the lonely hours afforded the writer as they gaze at the blankness of the screen and the pressure of bills mounting at their door, how they must envy the poet whose scribblings are never truly finished.

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(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

History Of Guns: Forever Dying In Your Eyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It’s that look you see when something you held on for, lets you go. Whether it is a group, a belief, a person, a parade of ideas that once could have changed the world, or just the simple remains of humanity, it is the knowledge that as you stare into the pupils of the one who matters most that you see them Forever Dying In Your Eyes.

History Of Guns: Forever Dying In Your Eyes. Album Review. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Amy Hopwood: Into The Woods. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What do we see when we investigate the heart of the darkened woods? Some will see fear, the conjuring in their minds of creatures that are base like, driven by primal urges, a place where ghosts and demons, witches and hermits make their play with human kind, and others, they see beauty, they feel the peace that the shade provides, and it is no wonder that these two dividing opinions are at the heart of centuries old traditions and folk lore, tales that inspire, and frighten in equal measure.

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

Walter Trout: Ride. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We spend the vast majority of our lives running from a past that is willing to be patient, cruel enough to let us run, hitchhike, Ride, our way ahead and then slowly, surely, and with fierce grinning teeth, whisper down our ears that it there, right behind us once more, waiting for us to stop and give into the inevitable.

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