Category Archives: Music

Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If a legend cannot start again and once more search deeply for the passion that propelled them to the top of their profession in a different era, in a different life, then we are doing a disservice to Time. For a legendary figure to aspire to a new beginning is one of enormity, it is satisfying, and it is humbling; and arguably they don’t come much humbler than the former Doors’ founding member Robby Kreiger.

Still Dusk: The Garden. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Caught between the times of light and dark is the place where matters of perception can be honed and altered with what could be considered a human magic, and if we manage to hold back time in such a way that when we stare into the contrast of separation, we can envisage a Still Dusk, a forever twilight that illuminates the Garden of imagination that sings to us in a harmony, that can add a sense of definition to the surroundings.

Chris Wragg And Greg Copeland: The Last Sundown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Do we ever really contemplate what it would mean to witness our final experience of dusk, that The Last Sundown we see with our own eyes is not one of mystery, of appreciating the majesty of the Universe, of even hoping to observe one final emergence of what was once considered a god peek over the horizon, but one that is shrouded by a shrug of indifference as we assume that all we have will be repeated the next day, and the one after that for time immemorial.

Colin Macduff: Seperations. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is only one thing in our life that is remembered more than an enduring love, and that is the break up that came before it, the moment when your heart and soul is crushed under the weight of the delusion that you have suffered that one person could have been the one, and little regard they felt for your state of mind as they leave you in pieces; the Separations of spirit are not just the acceptance of the bleak, but the catalyst to be better as you reflect on all that took place.

Jim Pearson: Death To Mortality. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Occasionally as a music listener you are transported to a place that is more than technically proficient, offers a finer sense of belief, and gives you a reason to smile in the darkness, one that insists there is a greater bounty to be found when we understand that being a casualty is a transience state of being, that we must be prepared to be vocal in our opposition to leaving the room silently, that in our defiant gestures we be certain to scream out Death To Mortality with all the fire of life we have ever displayed and forced out with that which is human.

Frasier (2023). Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro, Anders Keith, Jimmy Dunn, Kevin Daniels, Renee Pezzotta, Parvesh Cheena, Cheyenne Perez, Owen Lloyd, Amy L. Workman, John Bucy, Bebe Neuwirth, Peri Gilpin.

There are few actors that can so embody a character that they are capable of being that beloved person for more than one generation of television or film lovers; just a picture of them will place the viewer’s mind as one whose figure is nothing but the persona that they closely associate with, and nothing else they have done will frame the expression of laughter or dramatic role more.

Decommissioned Forests: Chemistry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Even those who decided early in school that the science lab was not for them will always appreciate that Chemistry is a human emotion worth savouring as well as a means to solving complex problems that plague humanity on a daily basis. Chemistry is what gives us meaning, the connection between worlds, of understanding, and admiring what makes the mind, the soul, and the heart such an unstoppable force when it fuses all the beliefs and dreams, they are capable of unleashing on the universe.

Steely Dan: Gaucho. Album Reissue (2023) Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

As the albums are re-released for the modern era, with a greater sense of occasion and fierce debate attached to them, it is to be delighted to witness the return of Steely Dan to the conscious of the older listener and be appreciated by a younger crowd who weren’t aware of just how ahead of their time they were.

Kate Rusby: Light Years. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The complexity of Christmas is such that it can cause inner conflict and turmoil to those who see the endless commercialism as an assault on their ability to not be downed in the saccharine and the overblown. To many the best part of the year is reserved not for the hype, but the beauty of the human experience of simple pleasures.

Peter Gabriel: i/o. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It could be speculated that to take two decades to release a new original album might see the artist in question expect to undergo a series of tough and rigorous demands and interrogations on the journey, on the distance, and how the new release might see them remain prevalent to a new generation of music listeners; especially in a period of time in which the extreme nature of art is as disposable as honour and understanding.