Category Archives: Music

The Big Deal: Electrified. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The connection is clear, The Big Deal have returned to the shores of the melodic fans hearts and stimulated the pulse just as the new year has barely even begun to feel its way into listener’s conscious.

The question might be posed as to whether the sound will just be as thrilling, the vocals soaring, or if the enthusiasm for the venture can be found within as to allude to lightning striking twice. The Serbian masters of harmony have not only returned, but blasted the ball out of the park with the assistance of a jet powered dynamic that truly understands the feeling and belief of being Electrified.

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(383 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

On Tick: Venus Girl. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

How we honour those that have been part of our lives but who leave it before we are ready to understand the reasons why, is often one that is simply recognised with a gesture of acknowledgement, a note of principal that is unafraid to show the respect due, of the influence that the person was able to install in your life; and when that happens to an artist, to a group that moulds music to the benefit of the heartstrings of the public, then the morning stars and the nighttime suns blaze all the brighter for it.

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

Avatarium: Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are forever caught in a titanic tussle between the forces of evil, that of the morally right, and the judgement of our ancestors, it is almost as these other worldly entities have us trapped in a see-through prism, a triangular attack which places us in danger, the feeling of mortality disturbingly close, too close for comfort.

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(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

A.M.E.N. Argento. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For most fans of the genre the phrase ‘Doomy feel’ doesn’t quite with the narrative; it belongs more with a particular phase of Blues than it does with Jazz, and yet striding out wielding the sword of music as the protagonist in this earthy narrative comes the intimate and darkly held Argento from A.M.E.N.; a set of Avant-Garde studies in human existence that sends a delicious shiver down the spine as the listener is shown the line gossamer thread that separates the two genres as twins in a spectral march.

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

Pet Needs: Kind Of Acoustic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Punk never died…it was far too clever to allow itself to be put in the firing line of any critical bullet, it was canny enough to evolve whilst for the majority of time not selling its soul for the price paid by Dorian Gray as he dismissed the painting in the attic as a mere extension of his self, instead as it evolved it proved more reliable than the Blues which had to wait for the start of the 21st Century to become relevant once again.

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(442 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Landfall: Wide Open Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We don’t have to confine ourselves to the narrow viewpoint, we do so out of comfort, out of dedication and love to what we already understand, we look forward to tramping the same old streets in shoes well worn just because to imagine another world out there that we can reflect in the Wide Open Sky would mean alternating our mindset, embracing the new, and seeing all along that the benefit we believed in sticking to our in built course was actually closing in on us and becoming a jail cell of time.

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

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.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

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.

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

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.

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(417 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Daria Kulesh: Motherland. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

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.

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