Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue – The Collection. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The forgotten don’t stay quiet forever, and for that it should be noted that resurrections come with the price of wonderful reveal, that we shake our heads at the moment of surprise and gasp that such a find was ever hidden from the public.

The myths of Egyptian royalty is such that omens and superstitions have become entangled with the prophesies of doom, an open passage way illuminating both history and the buried, the secret that everyone suspects, but cannot find the answers too without some sort of sacrifice; often that sacrifice is Time.

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(496 words, 1 image, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett, Genesis Revisited Band & Orchestra: Live At The Royal Festival Hall. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are those who command the art of wizardry, a moment in which they whisper down your ears and place the expectation of trust at such a level that it sometimes might be difficult to look upon other works and feel any emotion towards them; such is the awe and honour that comes through in waves. The only appropriate action to undertake is one of reverential belief, that magic is one of a long-held endeavour and skill and that all that opens up before the listener is, in the end, doors to other universes.

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(575 words, 1 image, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Steve Logan, Shaking Hands With The Devil. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Would you rather be seen Shaking Hands With The Devil, or receiving short shrift from those of a more heavenly persuasion? Life is such that to do a deal with those who offer flexible rates of temptation is quite often seen as being necessary, the right path in which to tread and take note in, after all what is a handshake but a performance in which two sides mutually agree to break the bond created at some point; at least that offers some hope, of seeing your own aim realised.

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

Wolf Jaw, The Heart Won’t Listen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If we are fortunate, we are open minded enough to give both the heart and the head equal presence when making the crucial decisions which govern our future happiness and of those who we surround ourselves with. The situation becomes less clear, shrouded in the fine whisper of dusk when the conflict of emotions means we find the soul and the name of our fortune changing, the head may agree and acknowledge the truth of such persuasive argument, but sometimes The Heart Won’t Listen, entrenched rightly in the jaws of the wolf to whom sentiment and longing are important factors.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Sayer & Joyce, Makes You Stronger. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The complexity of the artistic duo is one that arguably is the hardest to keep alive, the rewards are phenomenal, but the possibility of other factors straining at the leash are also enough to act as a conduit to separation, to the issues of conflict that the single performer or the group dynamic overcomes with solitude or full on conflict; but then as with so many other duos that have graced the screens or the airwaves, whatever Makes You Stronger is enough to see you become masters of your own domain.

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(368 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Revival Black, Step In Line. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are urged from an early age by the well-meaning and the consumed by fear not to stand out, to blend in, to keep our heads down and our eyes averted from the dreams and visions of greatness and extraordinary. It is no wonder then that we as a society might find reasons to distrust those who refuse to be driven to such ruthless measures of succeeding, of producing art for the crowd that is both heavy and unrepentant in its delivery.

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

Metronomy, Metronomy Forever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The landscape is such that the winds that blows across the desert can create a new heartfelt, and often stirring, picture with each slow release of breath shot from the heavens. It is almost as if the ripples shift and mark out new territory as each whisper blusters and puffs away at the topsoil that has become eroded and bleached beyond recognition by the sun and reveals underneath a new plain of existence to marvel at.

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(399 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Laurence Jones Band. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The eponymously titled album has a different type of magnetism, of mystique than the one shrouded in the finery of a declared designate; it is the ceremonial dress to which the artist arguably places their trust and their own insignia upon, and which gives a greater insight into the close relationship between the songs and the musician than ever.

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(380 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Ryan Brooks, Vice (Is Where The Devil Finds His Darlings). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

The Devil is in the detail and the weakness of the soul is where the contracts are signed and yet if enjoyed and if it hurts nobody but the recipient, then who are we to argue with the world of Vice, for that after all is where the devil finds his lyrics and where God plays the tune.

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

Black Stone Cherry, Black To Blues Volume 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Respect is something that is short supply in the modern world but this is hardly a new tale, a new belief; for no matter what an artist or person on the street may do, there will always be someone who finds it easy to belittle the effort, the strength of character it took to return to a place where heroes once swore battle and where the first images of insight first shone through.

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(360 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)