Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If one band was going to give Black Sabbath a run for their well established and seemingly unassailable position as producing the best Heavy Metal album from an American or British band then really Trivium and their brutally astonishing, captivating and hard edged album Vengeance Falls could well be the only serious contender.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are some things in life that will always seem permanent, the first drops of rain on a British lawn leading to water companies announcing that there will be a hosepipe ban, qualification by any of the home nations to the finals of the World Cup or getting the newspapers going over the top in their assertion that the trophy will be coming home. However, perhaps most welcome of all, the first track of a new Gary Numan album will just be the prelude to a recording so hot that if set out in space would cause the sun to develop blisters.
Originally published by L.S.Media, September 21st 2011.
They say that form is temporary and that class is permanent, in Gary Numan’s case, it’s nailed down with a thousand six foot poles, a few million staples and an industrial size pack of Gaffer tape!
Ever since he arrived on the scene as part of the Tubeway Army in the late 70’s and thereafter on his own, he has continued to release album after album of scintillating music that defies ignorance of the industrial music and searing pop synths, in fact he welcomes it with open arms and embraces it with passion. Dead Son Rising is no exception, filled to the rafters with sounds that other bands would not even consider placing down for eternity.
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All you need is something different, something slightly dissimilar than what anybody is else is doing and the world becomes your oyster. For Scott and Maria Owen Midlane of Noterminus, their debut album, the intriguingly titled Haselupker’s Ink, the oyster is a delicious and rampant morsel which uniquely captures the idea of visionary imagination alongside the pulsating power that dominates the album.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Listening to Ben Sures’ new album Gone To Bolivia, one cannot help but be struck by the mood, the picture of life that he draws with his music in the same way that you would expect the likes of Constable, Pitman or even Frederic Marlett’s Bell-Smith to paint and observe existence, for there seems to be something much deeper going on in the subject’s appearance than first taken for granted in the beauty that is framed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
With just one studio album to the super group’s name, to bring out a live C.D. might be considered slightly presumptuous, even possibly improper but then this is Flying Colours and when you have the outrageously good Mike Portnoy and Neal Morse of Transatlantic, Steve Morse, the beautiful resonating voice of Casey McPherson and Dave LaRue giving the audience at the wonderful venue of the 013 in Tilburg, then to be honest all you can do is sit down, and feel envious of those who made the trip to Holland and revel in the music coming through the speakers.
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It might be an easy and somewhat flippant statement to suggest that you know exactly what you are going to get when listening to the new album from The Feeling. Not much really changes for the band, the songs are always pleasant enough, they strike the right balance between being accessible to all ages and to even those with the extremist of music tastes, should they want to try something different and away from their comfort zone that is, and between looked on as, to quote many, the fairly vulgar term of kitsch. Boy Cried Wolf though is something more.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
The trouble with having such an iconic debut album, one that shrieks gladly every time it is taken out of the Perspex holder, is that any follow up albums the artist or group does is going to have a bench mark so high that even standing haphazardly on the tallest ladder with a piece of chalk in one hand a measuring tape in the other will not come probably close to ever beating. This is the problem that has faced many bands for a long time and it’s no wonder that many artists get so disillusioned it all, only the hardy keep going.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There will always be one album that catches you unawares. No matter how many you manage to listen to in a week, occasionally something will ping in the back of the brain and you will sit down, disregard everything else that is going on and needs to be done and just sit mesmerised by the sound of the incredible, the stark reality of beauty that squeezes itself out of your stereo. Babajack have that in abundance on their latest album Running Man. Ignore the phone, make sure no one knocks on the door demanding to know if you are free for a drink, Running Man is much more important than any almost anything else you can be doing right now.
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If there is one genre of music that Britain seems to continually well at creating, then surely Progressive Rock is the one. Unlike Metal, straight rock and pop has had the good fortune of having continental and Scandinavian Europe come along and show the way forward to British bands, Prog though still remains very much in the hands of a certain type of musician and for that the joy of hearing Denmark’s Vinyl Floor’s Peninsula is greatly appreciated.