Category Archives: Music

Paul Iwan, Present. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you are feeling comfortable in all that you do, it could be argued that you are doing it wrong; especially when it comes to art and expression.

Creation should never be easy, it should never be without memory, without anxiety, it has to be an operation that it is filled with tense words, feelings, emotions, it must be demanding, it has to be physically commanding on both the heart and the soul; creation requires sacrifice, and that noble gesture must be Present at all times for the one who is on the other end of it so they too can feel the pain, the delivery, and the justice of what the artist speaks of in their truth.

Paul Iwan, Present. Album Review. full post

(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Peggy James, Isn’t Anybody Coming? Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How we respond to world events is not just a matter for the individual, it is the collective whole that needs to come together and fight the evil that lives within the hearts of political psychopaths and desperate antisocial deviance; the measure of refusing to aid another in their hour of need, whether it is those who suffer primarily or by association, the mothers, the loved ones, the children caught between not understanding and feeling the rage of despair for the first time, this is how we are judged, how we are assessed, and pronounced guilty if we sit back and do nothing when the cry goes out “Isn’t Anybody Coming?”

Peggy James, Isn’t Anybody Coming? Single Review. full post

(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Tiny Dinosaur, Songs For The Mass Extinction Event. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The playlist would be long, would court controversy, and not everybody would get their say, let alone their favourite musical number played, but when it comes to the Songs For The Mass Extinction Event the one thing you can be sure of is that its diversity and mix of the unique and playful eccentricity will be admired by many. Even as we march headlong into the new geological epoch, the thoughts of how we look the process in the face and sing along to our favourite songs will be one of nagging superiority at the back of the mind.

Tiny Dinosaur, Songs For The Mass Extinction Event. Album Review. full post

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

Graeme Armstrong, You Are Free. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The act of being free is a double-edged sword, the dream of being unbound and unattached to every draconian rule and instruction can seem like a dream come true, but for some the idea, the practise, of being unanswerable to ‘The Man’ can cause panic, alarm, and fear, for in the process of having been chained to a perception of structure, they can no longer imagine the bliss of being anything but servants to the masters and their will.

Graeme Armstrong, You Are Free. Album Review. full post

(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Allehackbar, In Your Face. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The desire to prove the doubter wrong is an emotion that we must continue to nurture. Too often we have it unrestrainedly rammed down our throat that we cannot do something, that others have done it before so why must we do exactly the same, that we are only embarrassing ourselves, and that we shall surely fail in our endeavour; we must persist in proving people wrong, even if comes with alienating them, if it makes them angry…especially of it makes them outraged and indignant with rage.

Allehackbar, In Your Face. Album Review. full post

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

Will Glaser, Climbing In Circles Pt.4. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The spirit that is free is not constrained by the bars of imagination, for even in a cell that freedom can arise, it can attest, it can take the stand and declare with certainty that the mind can achieve anything and certify its own truth and name its own terms for the thoughts it has dreamed.

Will Glaser, Climbing In Circles Pt.4. Album Review. full post

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

Alexandria Adamson, Country Bred. Single Review.

To reveal yourself in any artistic fashion is a far greater achievement than many give credit for. To open your soul to all that may come whilst displaying all the humanity and humility at your disposal is the difference between being involved, and taking a lead; and to take a lead in what you believe without being ruthless and being true to all you are trying to inspire is the gift for those who see beyond the sense of highborn elevation, the Country Bred and the secure of thought and deed in the cheek by jowl openness of the shadow of industry and community.

Alexandria Adamson, Country Bred. Single Review. full post

(321 words, estimated 1:17 mins reading time)

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Unlimited Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

When an influence becomes distorted, the effects can be felt deep in the soul.

Time has a way of letting you know that all that think you are has either come crashing down around you, or that it is the moment in which you have arguably become a fixed point that no longer has the same persuasion, the same pull on the hearts as you once did, and contrary to popular belief, love is not unlimited, it has a line in which it can become blurred, concerned over, and perhaps ultimately, break.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Unlimited Love. Album Review. full post

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

Eddi Reader, Light Is In The Horizon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is to memory that we are able to see the prospect of hope in the distance; that even in the most damning of times we can imagine a moment after the damaging storm clouds have cleared in which the sound of a heart filled with courage takes a faultless foot on the stage and stands ready for the houselights to pick her out and for the music to captivate the audience in a way that hadn’t been felt in their souls for what could have been years.

Eddi Reader, Light Is In The Horizon. Album Review. full post

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

Derek Vanderhorst, Wildflower. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is that moment that we come to recognise that Time is no longer an ally and has found a way to urge us to concentrate on all that can make us immortal through our expression, our indulgences, in our undertaking to make the art within us live forever. In that moment the Wildflower outlives the rose, the fleeting nature of beauty holds firm in the soil of audience criticism in a way that the dahlia, the carnation, or the lily will never understand.

Derek Vanderhorst, Wildflower. Album Review. full post

(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)