Category Archives: Music

The Damn Truth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One man might pronounce with rhetoric that he hungers to have what Canada can offer, but there is one thing guaranteed that he will never be able to lay his hands on, and that is The Damn Truth.

One of Canada’s most electrifying bands, The Damn Truth, once more come full throttle to the listener’s attention with their new self-titled studio album, and it is a release that fans of the Montreal band will no doubt salivate over as the immensity of the sound pounds at the ears and the soul like a hammer against the bells of St. Jospeh’s Oratory, the iconic domed building adding a vibrancy in the imagination to the effect the band have had on the rock genre since they blazed on to the scene with Dear In The Headlights.

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

Gabriel Moreno: Nights In The Belly Of Bohemia. Album Review.

Lead me to those who seek life outside of the rigid norms of society, the freethinkers, the non-conformists, the individual bohemians who seek a different agenda, not ruled by the greenback or the acquisition of the constant slummy, for somethings, as artists will often petition to be understood, are more than riches counted in gold, they are the wealth of leaving something beautiful to the ages and beyond.

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(462 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Godley & Creme: Parts Of The Process – The Complete Godley & Creme. Boxset Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We are always advised to trust the process, whether it be in sport’s management or from those to whom dictate our lives in government, and dare we argue that the process is far from satisfying, that the flaws within are too obvious, as individuals, as society we expect a certain kind of kick back, we get called names, showered with discourse of an unseemly nature, we become gaslit by those we are advised to trust.

Godley & Creme: Parts Of The Process – The Complete Godley & Creme. Boxset Review. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Gillan:1978-1982. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One of the few frontmen of rock to have found success across a myriad of bands or indeed been at the helm of a group that carried his name, not once, but on three separate occasions, performing on the Black Sabbath album Born Again, and being part of one the big names in rock in three different eras…never standing still, never allowing time to catch up with him…and in that Ian Gillan deserves the accolades and fandom he has continually found, nurtured, and given all for.

Gillan:1978-1982. Box Set Review. full post

(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Marie Davidson: City Of Clowns. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We live in a microcosm that is ruled by psychopaths and sick-minded individuals, a town hall filled with fools and inhabited by a City Of Clowns bent on anarchy and chaos of the mind. It’s perhaps to the make-up of these lawlessness states of being that the scathing nature of Marie Davidson’s brand-new album hits home with such power, with a scathing rebuke of the antagonist shaking their head at the insanity of it all.

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(362 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Jethro Tull: Curious Ruminant. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is our own fault, we have become a species of reaction and not of deep contemplation, we are slaves to the emotion and we have given up our right to the reflective, the speculative, and musing of life; instead of thought, we have assumption and rumour, and neither are true deliberations on how humanity should see themselves or act in the future.

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(477 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks Live- Perpetual Change. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Perpetual Change is good, it is the reason for revolution, it is the uninterrupted flow of time that offers us a perspective of the new in motion and the past as a constant, ceaseless reminder of the beautiful and the desired that walks beside us in our waking lives.

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks Live- Perpetual Change. Album Review. full post

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

Steven Wilson: The Overview. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One of the most prolific musicians, producers, and remixers returns from the studio armed yet again with an album full of detail, and with an overview that is expansive, distinctive, and perhaps in the vein of the Progressive giants who weaved the music with such an intricacy that the idea of two songs that are bound by studious length and uniqueness of continual ambition.

Almost fearless, Steven Wilson’s eighth solo studio album is an expansive definition of the Progressive genre, two tracks that are inspired by the heavens, the overview effect that is experienced by astronauts looking back at our lonely planet from the darkness of space.

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

Sylvie Lewis: Lives Wisely. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To live with wisdom is arguably the point of our existence; and yet so few people truly engage with that mindset, preferring instead to live vicariously, happy to be spontaneous but with no purpose in their short walk through the woods of life.

It is only perhaps when that spontaneity is halted, paused as the world turns with a miracle of life or the sudden damnation of a society on the fringes of panic, disillusion, and bad decisions, that they see the wise choices in the rear-view mirror and the pain of regret that comes with it.

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(411 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

The Mexican Standoff: Hola Texas! Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Everything is, as the native’s will always espouse, ‘bigger’ in Texas, and in time honoured fashion that statement is given its test and found to be, with respect, almost true. From the wide-open skies to the sense of freedom that the state demands, part of the United States of America but seeing itself as its own functioning country, the sense of life size is everywhere, and even in the humble there is a drive that confounds the onlooker, but which makes absolute sense to those who understand the heritage and the legacy of those who call the state, home.

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