Category Archives: Music

Genesis: New York By The Pound – Felt Forum in NYC, 1973. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There can be no doubting the cultural impact that legendary British Progressive Rock Giants Genesis have had on the conscious of the nation and the wider world, the exuberance of performance maintained in the early days of shifting the focus on to visual aid and story-telling and through to the final glory in 2008, and the trip down memory lane in 2022, all lights, camera, action, and spellbound audiences wishing to live just for a while in the core of a genre they helped shape and illuminate.

Genesis: New York By The Pound – Felt Forum in NYC, 1973. Album Review. full post

(564 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Will Stewart: Slow Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Slow Life is one of virtuous content, and one that we dismiss the offer of living to our detriment and to our downfall; for life may be one of continual excitement if we live it in the fast lane, only using our homes as a place to lay our heads, barely making a connection with anything that houses our memories, our thoughts scattered to the winds, our dreams uncontained because we have not taken the proper time and consideration to believe they can be allowed to roam and not tethered by societal demands.

Will Stewart: Slow Life. Album Review. full post

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

Steve Dawson & The Telescope 3: Phantom Threshold. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can dip in and out of an album at will, arguably it is the one art form that you can entertain the idea of the listener dictating of how it is to be visualised in their minds without causing a fuss; but like a painting by Constable, a French cinema examination of a woman’s life in the shadows, or series of novels where the heroics and pain are entwinned with each page being read in the right order, so an album should truly be held in esteem enough to never question the integrity and thought of the musician who asks of you a simple request…listen to how the album plays out in the mind of its creator at all times.

Steve Dawson & The Telescope 3: Phantom Threshold. Album Review. full post

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

David Paich: Forgotten Toys. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

That favourite toy, perhaps a stuffed yellow bear with a crooked smile and limp left foot from where it has been flicked absentmindedly for years, never leaves you, it never truly leaves your memories of times when life was simpler than you ever gave it credit for, when the pleasure of even sitting with something precious in your arms was taken for granted.

David Paich: Forgotten Toys. Album Review. full post

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

Snowy White: Driving On The 44. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Of all the guitar players that Britain has produced, of all the songs, the pleasure derived and spread, the lists proclaiming the top ten, the must see, the great and the good, one name is perhaps conspicuous by its absence, and one to whom we collectively owe not only an apology for the omission, but huge thanks that he has continued to bring quality album after quality album to the listener’s attention, without fanfare, without the ordeal of celebration, just with the outstanding musicianship that Snowy White is overwhelmingly gifted at delivering.

Snowy White: Driving On The 44. Album Review. full post

(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Elton John: Regimental Sgt. Zippo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Elton John can make the listener believe in many things, love, acceptance, bravery, groove, the act of being cool even when the world raises an eyebrow in response, the fierce drive to succeed, but time travel, that perhaps is a step too far, even for the Rocket Man.

Elton John: Regimental Sgt. Zippo. Album Review. full post

(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Journey: Freedom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You cannot deny beauty its place in your observation of the world, if you do then the freedom you wish for yourself is a contradiction, and the refusal of others to see a form of splendour in action is an act of prevention, a forbidding social menace to which you be rightly lambasted and condemned for. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the Freedom it allows the individual is one that urges the soul to dig a little deeper, investigate more than what may lay on the surface, and in the end understand that the world needs truth in beauty, not an elaborate

Journey: Freedom. Album Review. full post

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

Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts: Mission. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Not everybody wants to get in the ring and spar, not all find the smell of animalistic sweat and the sound of the bell, the swagger of the crowd, and the hype of gloves clashing to their taste, but if that’s the Mission, along with anything else that correctively feels as though you have been smacked with sensible thought then that is the one you must accept, and with sharp instinct and fierce gaze, so Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts release their own Mission statement on the crowds, those close up and personal, those at the back of the arena; all are given the fight and performance expected of seasoned pros.

Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts: Mission. Album Review. full post

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

Ivy Gold: Live At The Jovel. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Picture the setting, it has to special, alluring, verging on the perfect, historic… hopefully, tantalising with its reverb, dripping in the expectation of its audience; you can record a performance anywhere and sell it to the fans, but its takes the right combination of all its parts to make it one that is distinctive, different, as rock solid as evidence as laid before the judges of musical flavour as can possibly be obtained by fair means or subversion to make it sound creatively cool and pulsating with life unexpected.

Ivy Gold: Live At The Jovel. Album Review. full post

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

Gemma Rogers: No Place Like Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Individuality and the eccentric go hand in hand, and where some will turn their nose up at such actions of originality, the truth is the strange, the unpredictable, and the idiosyncratic will always find favourable smiles because they are true to human nature, they have refused to give in to the ordinary and average conceits, and they prove that there is No Place Like Home for spreading their own gospel on life, and that taking to the streets is a fate they are willing to expand upon.

Gemma Rogers: No Place Like Home. Album Review. full post

(342 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)