Tag Archives: album review

Boston, Love, Life & Hope. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Boston never really typified the typical rock and that really is a good thing. The bands that were around them around the same time changed their ways and became less in your face and took on the approach that not every rock track needs to dogmatic, the same tired rhetoric filled with the only ambition being to be louder and brash than everybody else. Boston, or rather Tom Scholz bought a new and exciting feel, one more filled with the love of music and lyrics that play with love as an ideal.

Boston, Love, Life & Hope. Album Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Also Eden, Redacted. Album Review.

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There is nothing like an album to remind you of many truths that you may hold dear in your short life. When the subtle combination of music and lyrical splendour is able to shake the lethargy that had been creeping in to your existence, of perhaps even a first love, then you know that truth you had held onto for so long and with a vice like grip is absolutely right.

Also Eden, Redacted. Album Review. full post

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

Nina Ferro, Into The Light. Album Review.

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There is no doubting the honest sincerity and vocal intensity that Nina Ferro gives in her latest album Into the Light. The heartfelt plea, the authenticity that surrounds the vocals supplied by a selection of musicians who seem to have fallen completely under the spell of the quite remarkable vocals and play as if that spell will never be broken is more than enough to make sure that this album is regarded with high esteem amongst jazz, rhythm and blues enthusiasts.

Nina Ferro, Into The Light. Album Review. full post

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

Barry Briercliffe, Life On Repeat. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is almost criminal, worthy of the full weight of the law being thrown against you, to let such an exciting musician such as Liverpool’s Barry Briercliffe to go so long without releasing an abundance of music that not only sounds terrific but also captures the rich goodness of the man and his guitar.

Barry Briercliffe, Life On Repeat. Album Review. full post

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

The Christians, Speed Of Life. Album Review.

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Heaven forbid the day when there is too much great music being produced that you find you cannot keep up with it all. Making time for an album should be savoured, it should want to be played at the right moment, not when fashion dictates. In that moment occasionally a beautiful album may slip through the net, not because you have forgotten but because the time never felt quite right in which to slip into the words of someone so talented a song writer.

The Christians, Speed Of Life. Album Review. full post

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

Steeleye Span, Wintersmith. Album Review.

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There is no other way to write it down, a statement, that unless something the internet decides that enough is enough and crawls off to be superseded   by pure thought, should stand for all time, the combination between literature and Folk/Rock music in Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith is one of the albums of the year.

Steeleye Span, Wintersmith. Album Review. full post

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

Michael Schenker, Bridge The Gap. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Take the mightiest roar from the express train that hurtles past you at 100 miles an hour at your local railway station and mix it with the romance and visual sense of a tropical thunderstorm in full force.  That image is part the way to something that your jaw might just drop to as you take in the absolute power of nature and with that your some way to the effect that Michael Schenker and his latest album Bridge the Gap will leave you with.

Michael Schenker, Bridge The Gap. Album Review. full post

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

Richard Durrant, Christmas Guitars. Album Review.

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There is a consensus amongst many that Christmas has become too dominated by the idea of want, of commercialism bathing in some sort heavenly glow answering all the problems of the world with just a little help from a couple of double A batteries. It could be argued that is why so many have turned away from whichever deity or religion they were bought up to observe and openly state so in the national census. The often repeated music that gets released and played ad infinitum over many high street shops plays a hand in the apathy that is felt, come spend your money on gifts people don’t particularly need whilst you grow ever more weary of hearing the soundtrack to the season, shop after shop.

Richard Durrant, Christmas Guitars. Album Review. full post

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

Leaves’ Eyes, Symphonies Of The Night. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The profusion of great music that has come out of Scandinavia this last year, especially from its Metal genres is almost an embarrassment of riches. It has been relentless, a Metal take over from the traditional homes of the field in which for the vast majority of groups from the U.K. and America, with some very obvious exceptions, have been left floundering in their wake.

Leaves’ Eyes, Symphonies Of The Night. Album Review. full post

(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Des Liminanas, Costa Blanca. Album Review.

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The easiest thing in the world is to dismiss somebody’s music just because they are singing or performing in a different language, it is something that at times and no matter whom you are that we are guilty of. So much easier to fall into the trap of playing a track that you are so comfortable with that every note and nuance has been heard a million times before. Occasionally a song, a group or even an album might cross over into the subconscious and gets mass approval; however it seems to be as rare as hen’s teeth unless you live in a country where the population are so adept at understanding more than their own mother tongue.

Des Liminanas, Costa Blanca. Album Review. full post

(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)