Tag Archives: album review

Roger Taylor, Fun On Earth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Fun On Earth has been years in the making so many years in fact, that if it was a musician from almost any other band who had forged a respectable solo career, the fans might have drifted on and found a new hero to relish in. This though is Roger Taylor, a man who has been at the heart of British Rock for 40 years, a man who can turn up at Foo Fighters gig, a group not known for their shortage of drumming talent, and give a blistering display and who also arguably had the more prolonged success away from Queen than the three other members of the iconic group.

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(614 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

Protest The Hero, Volition. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There always seems to be debate on the links between Metal and the art of Progressive Rock. There are many bands that have perfected the lofty ideal that criss-crosses two outwardly disparate genres, the blurring and adding to of the ability to tell a story over the course of an album to the hard edge, the absolute limit of Metal technical adeptness.

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

B.J. Cole, The New Hovering Dog. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is an indescribable pleasure to be derived from listening to a classic album for the first ever time. Such is the fate for anyone who ventures from their perceived comfort zone and takes in the re-mastered album by B.J. Cole, The New Hovering Dog.

First released over 40 years ago, it is an album that urges the listener to follow the proverbial yellow brick road and go on a journey that at times will open the imagination to its fullest achievable end and at others will have the younger listener, even the music lovers of the era, astounded by the complexity of the tracks on the C.D. and the incredible sound that B.J. Cole produces throughout.

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

The Lennerockers, Rustin’ and Rollin’. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is no such thing as an overnight success…not if they are worth anything of true value and not if they have come through everything the world can throw at them and still shrug their shoulders and smile with a glint in their eye and a mischievous song in their heart. For nearly 30 years that sense of beautiful mischief, the sense of wanting to impart some sort of musical heritage onto their fans has seen The Lennerockers celebrate the release of 14 albums and now their 15th studio recording, the superb Rustin’ and Rollin’, will surely have the fans clambering over each other to be taken in hand once again.

The Lennerockers, Rustin’ and Rollin’. Album Review. full post

(431 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Joanne Shaw Taylor, Songs From The Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Joanne Shaw Taylor simply has nothing to prove, with a simple guitar riff and sultry voice she shows why she’s not just the cream of the Midland’s Blues scene but also one of the finest exponents of the craft this side or any side of the Atlantic Ocean. From her previous scintillating album, Almost Always Never to her first live recording, Songs From The Road, and throughout her career she has made the very most of what she has to offer the wider music world and the outcome has always been nothing short of fantastic.

Joanne Shaw Taylor, Songs From The Road. Album Review. full post

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

The Shadow Theatre, Voices. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Good things come to those who wait…so it is said. Like a punishment handed down from your parents or school teachers as they try to impress upon you the art in queuing, a particular skill that is required to be British it seems, waiting is a virtue.

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

Brothers Groove, Play The Game. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There can be no arguing that the city of Birmingham and its suburbs have contributed much to the fabric of Britain, from poetry to industry, Trevor Francis to Dennis Mortimer, Heavy Metal to the works of W.H. Auden and Tolkien, Birmingham has hand in it, even if it imports most of these from other places and like Liverpool cherishes it enough to claim it as their own. Like Heavy Metal though, which is as Midlands as the River Rea or The Sports Argus, a current band of Blues players, the very likeable Brothers Groove, are very much entrenched in the Birmingham ideal and their album Play The Game has that essence of Midland mindful music winding through it.

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(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Linnea Olsson, Ah! Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For many, the first sight or sound of Linnea Olsson may well have been her sterling support and overwhelming addition to Peter Gabriel’s live arena shows during 2013. As magnificent as her contribution was, it would be a disservice not to shout and praise from the rooftops her solo album from 2011, the cello driven Ah!

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

William Shatner, Ponder The Mystery. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are always new worlds to explore, even those you have been briefly to before can still hold a world of wonder within its dark caverns and forbidding forests. For William Shatner, the man who first took Star Trek fans on an adventure that shows no signs of running out of steam, the music quest has been taken before but not perhaps to the best of receptions.  Times have changed, William Shatner has grown older and wiser and his life has taken many different turns since those heady days of the 1960s at the head of the Enterprise. This certainly feels like the best time to Ponder The Mystery.  

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(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Rev Ferriday & The Longdogs, Nine Beats. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

With the long winter nights approaching quicker than Mo Farrah taking on a 1500 metre race just for the sheer enjoyment of it, the time spent warding off the British cold and thoughts of dark dreary nights are always in the thoughts of those who want good music to take them away from the impending and incessant wind and rain. In Rev Ferriday &The Longdogs’s latest release Nine Beats, there is another reason to sit in front of the fire, take in some exquisite and thumping music and revel in the thoughts that the clocks will soon go forward again.

Rev Ferriday & The Longdogs, Nine Beats. Album Review. full post

(335 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)