Category Archives: Music

Brimos: Intergalactic Hits Vol. 2 Wuhan. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Perhaps we are conditioned by what we hear when we envisage certain place names. To hear for example the city name of New York will light up the mind in response to dynamic abundance, of bright lights and big personalities; Paris will conjure up romance and revolution, of enlightenment, and Liverpool of solidarity, of art, and the willingness to fight for belief, and each of these places are captured righty in every detail through art, through song and lyric.

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(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Robin Trower: Joyful Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When titans combine, expect earthquakes and seismic activity that turns heads, allows the heart to swell, the mind to expand and feel the appreciation of different generations digging the cause of the art and which can take place as the gods approve as they dance and bless the mood under a Joyful Sky.

To bring together Robin Trower and Sari Schorr is a match suggested in the heavens and created with a sense of unrelenting beauty here on Earth, and the result is an album in which elevates the emotions of the Blues to a place where this unknown feels as though it was always going to be; the kismet, the fate, is a bliss of powers based in trust, commenced in belief, and delivered with resonating thrust

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(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Dom Martin: Buried In The Hail. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Hell is a good starting place for the righteous to start a revolution, but as the infernal pace freezes over and the snowball’s chance and the possibility of being Buried In The Hail proves the downfall of the devils and gods, so the main believers are afforded the time to state their case and show Hell the heaven that awaits.

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(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours -Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are three generations of fans that never got to see Fleetwood Mac at their absolute undoubted pomp, at the moment where they had gold in their veins and the blood of destruction flowing through their hearts, and it is too that sense of mortifying time bound neglect that the feeling of never seeing the masters in their natural setting as the friction and love threatened to turn the band inside out, dawns upon the faithful.

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(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Tori Amos: Scarlet’s Walk. Vinyl Issue Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The American dream is sold upon a lie we have told ourselves, its victims are those who hold the illusion up, the dead, the slaves, the ones who emotionally could not cope with the fantasy, the president who sought change but paid with their life, the native, the ones before the European invader who now rule the roost from coast to coast and from the gulf to the borders of cold forests and a less intense lifestyle, having their stories cut short and mostly lost except through perseverance and the beauty of aural reassurance and passion.

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(534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

The Rondays. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always something there to remind the listener of the depth and quality of the music that comes out of Liverpool’s vast music empire.

It seems since time first registered the individuality of the region, the city by the Mersey, music has been the driving force of its culture, of its people, and despite the significance of the area, as with much of the country, losing various venues due to the social policies enacted by one political colour or another, what will always thrive is the beast within, the need for the expression to be shown and keenly felt.

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(350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Deacon Blue: You Can Have It All – The Complete Albums Collection. Box Set Album Review.

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If there is a prize for the most self-evident use of a lyric in relation to naming a complete album collections, then Deacon Blue must have surely known they would be absolutely victorious when the discussion arose of how to catch the attention of the fan and persuade them to set aside their money from wages day as they unveiled the title of the ginormous box set; You Can Have It All – The Complete Albums Collection. 

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

Belinda Carlisle: Decades. Box Set Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The song remains the same, it is how the album is packaged that will draw the audiophile and the collector in, and if you manage to snag in the net those who had long thought about investing in their soul, albums from the said artist, then the Decades in which they have plied their trade have not only been worth it, but pursued with an acclaim of history on its side.

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(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Vinny Peculiar: How I Learned To Love The Freaks. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To appreciate the heroes of the counter culture movement is to know your own mind, it is too rail, no matter how many years after the end of the flower power bearers, the orators of good hope, and those who paved the way for us all to cut swathes through the squares and the rules of pre-war dogma, and argue that the world has become bland, dull, it has immersed itself in the safety of the beige, and it shows no sign of wanting to heave itself out of the mire of the deadly and the dreary tedium.

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(461 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Broadsword and The Beast. 40th Anniversary Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Rating * * * * *

Critical reception in the eyes of all-knowing journalist can be tempered by understanding that they only write what they perceive to be true, or what they have been ordered to by those with a common purpose.

There was a period of time when music magazines, writers, had a ulterior motive, at some point they would knock a band so severely and claim that the record they were listening to was to be dismissed, to be wary off, and that the group in question was obviously no longer a relevance. Not every music journalist followed the line, but it is telling when you look back at old reviews that some albums which are rightly now considered as classics, have suffered from a way of thinking that had nothing to do with appreciation, and more about ego.

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(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)