Category Archives: Music

Eric Johanson: Live In Mississippi. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Delta offered its name to an early pulse of the Blues, the ties that bind them both are historical, and deeply engrained, and for many who seek the comfort and melancholy that the genre provides, to live in the glorious state that frames the listener’s mind when surrounding themselves with the introspective licks and summoning notes is surely a must; a visit at the least, but to immerse yourself in the culture completely it requires commitment to the cause…and in modern terms of the Blues appreciation there are few that can perform to the crowd in such a way that it takes them back through time to the godfathers of another age, whilst all the time remaining feet firmly placed in the modern era.

Eric Johanson: Live In Mississippi. Album Review. full post

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

Shane Alexander: Forever Songs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We can only hope that any artist goes into their studio and thinks of the lasting effect of their art rather than the popularity, however fleeting, it can bring; that the songs, the plays, the stories written of aged memories and mischief set down, are Forever Songs and not just in the realms of the moment.

Shane Alexander: Forever Songs. Album Review. full post

(393 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

The Twangtown Paramours: The Winds Will Change Again. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Certain people will see loss through the eyes of the indifferent, they will feel nothing for the person to whom their world has broken, perhaps shattered in ways that we cannot ever contemplate; however, people that show such truths upon their face and allow their hearts to become bitter will ultimately be wary when the winds of change blow with the icy stare of an Arctic freeze through their veins.

The Twangtown Paramours: The Winds Will Change Again. Album Review. full post

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

Ledley: Ledley. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Originality is the cornerstone of art, it requires oxygen, it expects progression, and it obliges when an idea comes to mind, one perhaps from left field as inspiration strikes, and as Ledley take to the avant-garde electronic self-titled debut, what transpires is an album that defies expectation and probability.

The album, Ledley, sees Ralph Clarkson, Chris Williams, and Riann Vosloo pay tribute to the Tottenham Hotspur’s player Ledley King and in the electronica improvisation the adventurous nature of the piece is intrinsic to the motion of unexpected subject matter given prominence and dutiful obligation.

Ledley: Ledley. Album Review. full post

(391 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Milton Hide: Bungaroosh. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The temperature rose, the heat that has been kept constant has found the listener almost agog with anticipation of what the pairing behind the hugely inspiring Milton Hide could magic up next, and with expected enchantment and a sizeable nod to the composite nature of building that can be found on the Sussex coast, Bungaroosh is a true response to the world’s call for highly original music, and one that traverses genres with accomplishment and charm.

Milton Hide: Bungaroosh. Album Review. full post

(389 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Voice of the Beehive: Honey Lingers. 2025 Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst the abundance of reissues continues to reintroduce music fans to periods that they may have not had the privilege of accessing due to their age at the time of recording, the extended cuts giving fans chills of excitement as they feel the nostalgia rippling across every sinew and mouth watering longing they might display, some reissues and extensive mixes become the reveal of the fabled light that shone brightly in the clubs that once frequented the land, the memory of pop’s hidden gems that was briefly glimpsed in the charts, and some, such as The Voice of the Beehive’s Honey Lingers, that captured the zeitgeist in the summer of 1991.

The Voice of the Beehive: Honey Lingers. 2025 Album Reissue Review. full post

(540 words, 1 image, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Rainy Day Confessions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Do we lay in the sun and think of the times we desperately wanted to relieve our conscious, to absolve the sins of our creation, or do we wait for the moments in which the mood depends on melancholy, when we wish to match the weather’s appearance by admitting to the faults in our souls and the declarations of our heart? An assertion on a grassy patch of ground as the temperature rises and the sun lays directly overhead, or the Rainy Day Confessions that frame time with a sizeable revelation.

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Rainy Day Confessions. Album Review. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham: Big Blue Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Artists that can, and willingly do so, change the trajectory of their sound in one jaw dropping moment, are to be treasured, and whilst some will be confounded from the alteration of direction from the Progressive to the raw emotion that Blues conveys, in Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham’s brand new release, Big Blue Sky, the sense of open appreciation is as expansive as the sound of the handsome vocals, and the drama that such an unobstructed view can maintain, is to be heralded and understood for the ferocity that can come bursting out of nature’s panoramic landscape in one fleeting second.

Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham: Big Blue Sky. Album Review. full post

(429 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Sky A: Labyrinths. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Art creates art. A person can write a short story, present it to a small gathering of friends one evening, and within a few months one of the attendees could have written a novel based on the emotion and meaning of the offering gifted as a moment of light entertainment.

It is a direct response to the way the mind works, finding meaning and direction in the Labyrinths of the mind, the sparks of neurons connecting that lead us away from the gruesome fear of the Minotaur, and instead count the threads of the strings that lead to freedom of thought and expanded art.

Sky A: Labyrinths. Album Review. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Sykofant: Red Sun. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Many are drawn to the music created by Progressive Rock bands because it boldly expands on the narrative that comes with life; the pop song has its place with its repeated chorus and catchy delivery and momentary diversion, and even rock itself plays a part in musical appreciation However, the art of the Progressive movement is in its ability to weave with patience a world in which fiction expands far beyond the short structure and deliver an insight into the human ability to bring forth a lengthy discourse of virtuosity and beauty to the lives of the everyday and the people caught by the chronicles and storylines conceived.

Sykofant: Red Sun. E.P. Review. full post

(328 words, 1 image, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)