Tag Archives: album review

Steve Hackett, The Night Siren. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be consistent, to be so imaginatively fertile in the use of art across several decades and still sound as if the music you are creating is one that has been inspired by a Muse who knows a thing or two the subtle complexity of being Progressive, then either the world has been kind to you or you just happen to be the person who listens to ones who weep at dusk, who sing songs of fantasy and freedom in the depths of midnight’s favourite illusion or the sense of peace offered by The Night Siren.

Steve Hackett, The Night Siren. Album Review. full post

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

Michael Schenker “Fest” Live Tokyo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is the pulse of electricity, the chords that beat and ravage the unwary visitor to the point where they think of nothing more than delving into the back catalogue of the artist, of immersing themselves completely into the era of bonhomie and interest in what else the world has to offer. A time before time, for the older fans a memory to hold onto, for the younger, perhaps less versed in the cycle of the live performance, a message to be at one with the power of one of Rock’s finest.

Michael Schenker “Fest” Live Tokyo. Album Review. full post

(481 words, 1 image, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Elfin Bow, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is a certain majesty in the way that Elfin Bow presents her self-titled new album, not one of false regal misfortune but instead the type that is more natural, more ethereal, the type in which Tatiana would look upon her fellow fairies with pride or Juno, the wife of Jupiter would tease and rack the conscious of Tiresias whilst being the mother of all strong women in the Roman Empire; it is the majesty of innocence, of sublime spirit and protection and one that Elfin Bow, the superb Elizabeth Jones, wears well.

Elfin Bow, Album Review. full post

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

Alistair Anderson & Northlands, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If we don’t sit down occasionally and see life through the medium of our senses and just keep going on to derive some ludicrous pleasure from over consuming then how do we ever hope to grow and listen, to think, to enjoy art for what it is, the prospect of hope in a world of diminishing responsibility, one that can thrill, make you ponder without ever having to aggressively become a stunted and single thought human being.

Alistair Anderson & Northlands, Album Review. full post

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

Sheila K. Cameron, A Perfect Landing: Some Love Songs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be seen as perfect is not always the ideal, to have A Perfect Landing might be seen as textbook, as rigid and completely by the book as you can get and one that doesn’t allow for any variation in imagination or in the scale of the job at hand. Yet for Sheila K, Cameron A Perfect Landing is a piece of music that the listener cannot but help care for and admire because it offers a different set of values to which the absolute never caters for, that of unblemished hope.

Sheila K. Cameron, A Perfect Landing: Some Love Songs. Album Review. full post

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

The Loch Ness Mouse, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating   7.5/10

The myth of it all, the subtle web weaved that creates illusion and the wonder of the creative, all is alive and well inside the superb minds of The Loch Ness Mouse, a band of stirring quality wrapped up inside the cool and the believed; it is to their self titled album that the myths are made real and the illusion filled in with facts and truths, one of which just how good they are when the music starts to play and where they can take you in their imagination.

The Loch Ness Mouse, Album Review. full post

(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Doghouse Roses, Lost Is Not Losing. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The modern age has taught us many things that our ancestors would have balked at, it may be just the way things work out, that our very nature is pre-disposed to argue with a voice that is full of nonsense, that we have forgotten the art and point of debate with civility in our hearts, that when we suffer defeat at the hands of those with greater persuasive qualities or indeed that their philosophy is of greater sound text, we belittle ourselves by believing all is lost and not Lost Is Not Losing.

Doghouse Roses, Lost Is Not Losing. Album Review. full post

(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Mike Zito, Make Blues Not War. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The world is on a knife edge, a relentless march to its own seemingly assured destruction, one that cannot arguably be stopped and one that has left eminent scientist Stephen Hawking to conclude there may be only a 1’000 years for Humanity to survive and for the planet to be rid of its gorging hosts; perhaps the best thing to do to at least stem the tide is for the population to look deep in its own soul and Make Blues Not War.

Mike Zito, Make Blues Not War. Album Review. full post

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

Viola Beach, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The last 12 months have been rotten for the arts, too many greats have passed on and left those of us behind with only memories and faded aspirations; this is no so more true as in the bitterest of moments of when a young and decent band is cruelly taken from their place in the section of future heroes and all because of an accident.

Viola Beach, Album Review. full post

(378 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Helhorse, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is rare to find yourself in the company of a rampaging jungle beast or the anger of an animal of the plains, one that has come home from a long tiring day at work hunting wildebeest and stamping the timecard without success only to find that their partner has run out of sauce to smother the kill. Anger, boiling rage and seething fury, the lion and the rhino may have it all in abundance when consuming or giving into their very nature, their animalistic experiences but it is nothing when compared to the temper of a band throwing themselves into the pit of aggression with indignation drawn and flashing like a ceremonial blade against the desert sun.

Helhorse, Album Review. full post

(410 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)