Tag Archives: album review

Heath Common,The Dream of Miss Dee. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If Jack Kerouac were alive today, surely he would have been extolling the virtues of a man from Lancashire, possibly even turning him into a tragic anti-hero with an Americanised pseudonym and an abundance of women or men after him and plying him with whisky and repeatedly asking him to sing one of his songs that typify the road. Heath Common is that man, a character like no other, so unique that Kerouac or Ginsberg could not have captured the real essence of the road, in this case the Great Mancunian Way, he travels.

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(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Eddi Reader, Vagabond. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To suggest that the phenomenal Eddi Reader has wandered through music since bursting onto the scene with Fairground Attraction would be doing this versatile and exciting musician a massive disservice. This is not a woman who can be accused of strolling through life, drifting from record to record, song to song as with some; the beauty she exudes through her music is enough at times to take your breath away and her latest solo album Vagabond is no exception.

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(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Ed Harcourt, Time Of Dust. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

If there is ever any question over just how good, how brilliant, a musician and lyrists Ed Harcourt is, then that might be the day to hang up the earphones, put away the stereo and flog your collection for enough money as you can make and head off to the place where the silent order of monks and nuns reside, for no music could ever surely lift your spirits again.

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(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

The Jigantics, Daisy Roots. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In amongst all the signs of having enjoyed a debut album by a band surely listening to it and not notice the time slip away from you as it pulls you in to its musical soul has to rank highly. Another sure fire way is when you find yourself humming along with the harmonies in a relaxed fashion, the infectious nature getting to you quite easily and the smile returning to your lips as you swim amongst unhurried lyrics and elegant instruments.

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

House Of Trees, Where’s The Butcher, Where’s The Baker? Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The mixed emotions, the taste of an intoxicating, anything goes atmosphere; the piercing and stimulating feel of a time which you can only ever imagine having lived, inhabited and immersed yourself into as you wander around Upper Manhattan in search of the next big star and cool smooth voice. These are the qualities the listener will find on the stunning album by House of Trees, the superb Where’s The Butcher, Where’s the Baker?

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

Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It doesn’t matter how late in life you come to some musicians or artists, they will wait for you to catch up to them. They will continue to perform and make music knowing full well that at some point even the most ardent non-believer will find that they have been wrong all the time, come along with flat hat tightly wound around their fists and apologising for taking so long for getting on board with their best laid plans.

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(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Tiki Black, Out Of The Black. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may not happen often, but sometimes you come across an album that once you have heard it you realise what an honour, a rare privilege, it was to have taken the C.D. out of the plastic cage and set it free to sing and flourish.

Out of the Black by the sensational Tiki Black may have been released in 2013 but when you find an album of such pure quality which contains a voice which seems to get more beautiful the more you let the C.D. play along its merry way and the haunting performance of the collection of musicians that contribute to such a stirring debut.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

David Serby & The Latest Scam. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Not only does David Serby have an affinity, a sort of undisputed empathy with the emotions of humanity; the desire to get deep down and dirty in the psychology of what drives us all, but his way of getting that affinity across is almost pure and full. He has that great skill of being able to hear without speaking, for listening with full attention and giving a song of great humour and emotion in return in the album David Serby & The Great Scam.

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

Legions Of The Damned, Ravenous Plague. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Humanity has always liked to believe it is the top dog when it comes to life on Earth, but when it all boils down to it, away from the great art, the spoken word and the ability to make the most beautiful and electrifying music, in the end we are food for either worms or bacteria. It may not be a pleasant thought but one to consider when listening to the unrelenting sound of the Netherlands Legion of the Damned and their brand new album Ravenous Plague.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)