Category Archives: Music

Nicole Hale: Some Kind Of Longing. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some Kind Of Longing, a world perhaps that we have lost focus of, one of vibrancy, of joie de vivre, or perhaps of just plain honesty, however we view that sense of aching realisation that natural forces once experienced by humanity have become a narrower option for us to enjoy and reconcile us with each other, some kind of longing, a kind of mystery we need to explore within before we find ourselves emotionally, physically on a one way track leading to oblivion.

Joe Robson: Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How do we view Home, hopefully our experiences are such that is a place we can look back upon with a certain degree of love, even happiness, but it does depend on what we actually class as home, is it this place we call Earth, a certain town or village where our memories were formed and our reflexes and reflections were honed, or is it in the mind, the one place that is surely ours, where we can be at peace and dream of the beautiful and the brave.

Electric Temple: High Voltage Salvation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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We all pray at some sort of altar, whether it is a physical one of stone and surrounded by fellow worshipers, or that in which the mind is open to the nuance of interpretation and the belief that what we find appealing in art can give us the lift we seek in even the darkest moments.

For many of us the sound of High Voltage Salvation is the only way in which we can truly find the will to see beyond the black mass of thought, and the electric temple, where heavy rock meets the soul, that forgives us of any trespass, is where deliverance and recovery from brutal opinion and negative oppression are openly praised and discussed.

Daria Kulesh: Motherland. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

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Ten years on from her debut album, Eternal Child, the sense of maturity is not confided to the act of symbolism in the title, but in the wisdom of progression and identity in a world that has lost its way through hate, division, and lack of empathy to people and the environment, and as the creative soul that pushes ideas and character forward in Daria Kulesh, Motherland is the near perfect statement of observing change in the person and in the wider world.

Tori Amos: Diving Deep Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Thankfully in today’s world the fear of missing out should be one emotion we can surely relegate to the past; especially when it comes to the ability to have the opportunity to listen in comfort to a performance by an artist at the constant top of their game, and the luxury of being enthralled by the deep dive into the catalogue provided.

Jethro Tull: The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas. Album Box-Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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Of all the ways you might expect the art of the Progressive to go, to slip comfortably into the realm of the festive spirit might be the one guess you would never offer to the eternal quizmaster.

It might not be obvious, but if there is one band whose history has circumnavigated almost every genre that can be touched upon with a flute leading the way, then Jethro Tull have every right to surprise and enlighten the audience and the fan alike by immersing their unique observation into an album devoted to the ringing of the bells and the signal to good will to all included.

Sam Llanas: I’m Not A Robot. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When an artist goes meta there is strange greatness that comes across that raises a smile on those who see the mindplay for its absolute full worth, and high fives the mind with a slap that echoes around the room and reiterates the art doesn’t lie, it glorifies, it attunes, it might hide and deceive, it certainly physically enables, but it does not lie; and as Sam Llanas drives home the point in his brand new single, I’m Not A Robot, it attaches itself to the mood deep down and gives the listener a reason to conceive of security and human liberties in motion.

KAIVS: After The Flesh. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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The genre is not for everyone, but Death Metal exists because of a natural requirement to explain humanity’s darker elements in such a way that could be considered more theatrical than what the art of cinema for example could depict, even literature of such gruesome imagination would be relegated to a store cupboard out of the reach, and yet in the hands of masters what comes across in audio is sculptured visibility, it is the virtuosity of carving out a figure to which can leave the listener, the fan or the enquiring novice, gaping in wonder at the sheer strength of musicianship given a voice of anger and fierce outlook.

Dean Johnson: Hoopla. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The commotion of excitement is always palpable; sometimes though you must actively ask the question to which the other person in your vicinity might cut down the animation you feel and display agitation and coldness to the familiar…the response will not fit your enthusiasm, but it will inspire something deep down in your poetic soul and create art, create a new world driven from the negative pressure once felt to the beauty of positivity.

Voodoo Circle: Hail To The King. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We hail the king, but it is to the everyman, the artist, the grass roots, and the masses that we owe allegiance to. The aristocracy of the humble and the public attention belong to those not with crowns but the kings and queens of delight and observation, those with true power, that exercise it with greater acclaim than those who garnish themselves in adoration because of an accident of birth.