Category Archives: Music

Jody And The Jerms, Flicker. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A momentary recognition that becomes the lifetime of understanding is perhaps the most appreciative way someone can show their empathy to another human being; for what some perceive as asking for sympathy, is in actual fact the beginning, the Flicker of thoughtful awareness, the compassion to listen to the whole story instead of wanting to top it by interrupting with a tale of their own. The Flicker is the start, the registration, the mustered check that we are aware.

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

Captain Of The Lost Waves, Hidden Gems Chapter 3 – Mysterium Tremendum. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The art of the Progressive mind is one that is steeped in revolution whilst not willing to trade personal creativity for the temptation of fame, fortune, or compromising with the Devil who calls the tune it doesn’t stop them from expanding the nature of their art, from being willing souls wanting to embark on a new adventure.

Captain Of The Lost Waves, Hidden Gems Chapter 3 – Mysterium Tremendum. Album Review. full post

(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Only Child, Straight Lines. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

“Time Flies Over Us, but leaves its shadow behind”, and what a mighty shadow is to be felt when someone, anyone, finds themselves stepping off the train at Lime Street Station, when they cross the Irish Sea and see in the shimmering distance the graces, the welcome of history wrapping its arms around the visitor.

Only Child, Straight Lines. Album Review. full post

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

Sabaton, The War To End All Wars. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Sadly, Europe and the wider community is once more under the kind of threat that makes the Godfather of British science Fiction H. G. Wells’ quote “War to end all wars”, seem ever more populist for its time, and despite the brilliance of the man, almost arguably arrogantly absurd to believe such an event was ever possible.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Landon Lloyd Miller, Light Shines Through. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To own your name is the ultimate action of any rational mind, to deny such an experience of personality, to decry the limelight, the searchlight of existence is to be forever welcoming the shadows.

The nom de plume and the group embrace is a noble release, it offers sanctuary in a world too eager to tear down the reserves of the soul and offer temptation in the form of recognition, the riches of identification, especially in a world framed by creation and by possession of artistic rights. Yet, to own our words, our gestures, our thoughts and titles of the moments we have brought into the world is not so much about possession or proprietorship, it is the registering of the fact that we were here, at this time, and this was our contribution to society, to community.

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

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band, The Love Gun E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For Geoff Carne it was never about what was left, it was always about continuance, the sheer love of creation, so even in the wake of retirement by the colossus that is Mike Hatz, Geoff Carne took the road unbroken and alongside The Raw Rox Band, Arby ‘Slash’ Rockman, Jim Black, Zoki Jovanoski, and Bob Calvery, the muscle, the memory, the music has found a place which honours that what was, but is unafraid to march forward, to take perhaps a different, and in the case of the new E.P. Love Gun, more uninterrupted and giant resounding sound.

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(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Graeme James, Seasons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Seasons come and go, some with the bluster of a damaged ego, some with a lazy haze that seeps into the bones and makes us lay in hopeful pastures overlooking bubbling swimming streams. The personality of each season may not be of concern to the vast majority of humanity, more troubled by the unease of the monthly, daily, change of events, but it must be noted that as the cold anger of February and the war like heat of August shape our lives, so to do the seasons, the high council of climate and time, have the right to be felt and appreciated by even the smallest of creatures.

Graeme James, Seasons. Album Review. full post

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

Calum Gilligan, Footsteps On The Broken Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Those Footsteps On The Broken Road that we hear beside us belong to the soul that wants to take our hand and accompany us to a place where love is not a crime or considered weak, where sunsets never fail to be beautiful, and each new dawn is one that holds mystery and adventure; the footsteps may be travelling a broken road, but the stride is conscious, the pace steady, and the company unbroken. 

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

Roving Crows, Awaken. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst others may question our motives, we must always be aware of our own vibrancy, of our own values, for what others may see as intention, as reputation, is in actual fact character, it is honour and integrity moulded together by those who see with more than just their eyes, who feel with more than their gut instinct, it is those who have heard the call of Awaken, and who sleep only to dream.

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(350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Daytime TV, Nothing’s On But Everyone’s Watching. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life was simpler once.

Not the cry of the technophobe lamenting the surge in technology, but the nostalgia of a truth that whispers that humanity has lost its ability to understand the complex arrangements of social cohesion, that we talk a big game, we commend ourselves on our defining character of peace, love and understanding and lifting up ones neighbour, but that we truly are devoid in the large percentage of being truly empathetic, that we have lost touch with our essence because we have embraced a more tactile relationship with the space in between true physical and emotional conduct.

Daytime TV, Nothing’s On But Everyone’s Watching. Album Review. full post

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