Category Archives: Music

Brian May: Another World. (2022 Re-Issue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The chance to reflect upon an offering by an artist years after it was first tentatively produced, after it had its velvet cover removed in a flurry of bright lights, headlines, and hoped for champagne corks popping in delight at the spirit of human conscious standing proudly on the pedestal, is one that arguably must be taken with great sincerity, and with pathos deeply prescribed; for few in time retain the idea of masterpiece, for as opinions change, shift, and alter, so too will the sound be revised, the story behind it taking on a less or more significance.

Brian May: Another World. (2022 Re-Issue). Album Review. full post

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

Sarah Markey: Leaving Lurgangreen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Adventure is within the soul, it is innate to the species, it is peculiar to the individual, and almost always the first step that leads to a newfound sense of independence being framed and saluted by others along the way; it might stir the soul, it could be one that is drips with anxiety, but in due course it will be remembered as a tender moment between mind and matter.

Sarah Markey: Leaving Lurgangreen. Album Review. full post

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

Jill Jackson: Yours Aye. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Where others may feel the small drops of rain on a spring day, the sensitive feel the lashing of a hurricane in autumn; this is the love and the penance that the complex emotional readers find when they are presented with an overload of sensation, when they are granted access to an innermost desire or sometimes passing thought, the rain is not an inconvenience, it is a flood of reaction that is yours to own completely. There is the rub, to answer in the positive when examined, Yours Aye.

Jill Jackson: Yours Aye. Album Review. full post

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

Dana Fuchs: Borrowed Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

No matter where you go in life, there is always a Wildwood.

Such a place on the map goes by many names, some archaic and stubborn, some a little brighter, but no less conservative in its outlook, and the person with emotional dreams, with a different outlook on life, will always find a way to leave it…dreams are always on Borrowed Time, and if you don’t escape the Wildwood when the call comes, how can you ever hope to return with ideas on how to change it for the better.

Dana Fuchs: Borrowed Time. Album Review. full post

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

Suzi Quatro, The Rock Box 1973-1979: The Complete Recordings. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Undoubtedly Suzi Quatro will go down in history as one of the godmothers of Rock ‘n’ Roll. That she broke through in a time of Glam Rock means little, for this musician could have forced her way into the charts and into the national collective psyche at any point, and yet she strode the stage as a colossus of the period, a million racing hearts cheered her on, captivated by her drive, her presence, and the generosity of spirit, the woman who came from under the shadow of her sister’s band, The Pleasure Seekers, and stormed the world, who spun like a Catherine Wheel fuelled by an nuclear power source.

Suzi Quatro, The Rock Box 1973-1979: The Complete Recordings. Album Box Set Review. full post

(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Carbon Black: We Remain. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you have something to say, then say it, or as old journalists used to insist on quoting The Duke of Wellington, “Publish and be damned”.

There is no sense in being coy in a world that has lost its way, in which has embraced the vacuous void of human impression, in which we have allowed, permitted, atrocities and carnage to take hold in our name, whilst slowly, unmistakably, seeing our souls wither, still conscious but barely able to withstand the pressure placed on its fragile shell-like existence.

Carbon Black: We Remain. Album Review. full post

(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Rory Matheson & Graham Rorie, We Have Won The Land. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is almost seen as a rite of passage, the sense of returning to a place where the traditional encompasses the message of despair, of hope being removed by darker conglomerate forces, and the song that catches the feeling of tough times being endured by resilient men and women in the perpetual struggle to be free.

Rory Matheson & Graham Rorie, We Have Won The Land. Album Review. full post

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

Robin Trower: No More Worlds To Conquer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Alexander wept as he found he had little left to overcome and occupy, Robin Trower, the iconic British Bluesman who was one of the forces of genius behind Procol Harum and has performed with legends such as Jack Bruce and Bryan Ferry, on the other hand still has much to put down in sheet music, still has much to say and translate into the voice of his trusted guitar, that his new album’s title might seem a tad premature, for while the label might read No More Worlds To Conquer, surely there are realms in which the master can place before the uninitiated his sizeable and overwhelming musical talent.

Robin Trower: No More Worlds To Conquer. Album Review. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Peaness, World Full Of Worry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The understanding of someone’s self-loathing is arguably often too complex to get to grips with, especially in a place where the often overbearingly optimistic tend to reside. A concern, a World Full Of Worry in a minefield of burden populated by those without disquiet in their minds, for those that live in comfort of mental health it is a small sentence but one that traps the load ever tither on those who carry the cares of others on their shoulders.

The Peaness, World Full Of Worry. Album Review. full post

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

The Canny Band. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Sometimes in life you cannot but help hold your breath, you don’t realise you are doing it, you just stand in awe at what is unfolding in front of you and the reflex action, that momentary last inhale, takes care of all the rest; only at the last second do you find the release and marvel at how stunned, how appreciative of the moment you have been.

The Canny Band. Album Review. full post

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