Category Archives: Music

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.

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.

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.

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.

Will Stewart: Slow Life. Album Review.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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