Tag Archives: album review

Heart, Fanatic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating ****

Two years after Heart brought out Red Velvet Car, Ann and Nancy Wilson have once again teamed up with Ben Mink and come up with an album of distinction. For those that only remember Heart as producing hard rock ballads during the 1980’s and know nothing of their early albums such as Little Queen or Dreamboat Annie, before you listen to Fanatic, check out the early recordings, see how rich and full Ann Wilson’s voice was and then compare. For as Red Velvet Car showed, the two sisters are back and sounding as good as they did before they sold out to the 80’s corporate mainstream.

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

Magnum, On The Thirteenth Day. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 25th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

On The Thirteenth Day…Magnum was created to rock the socks off die-hard rock and Progressive fans alike.

The new album from the legendary Midlands band follows a trend of superb albums by the group since they reformed in 2001 after a few years away and on various other projects. From 2004’s Brand New Mourning onwards, Magnum have notched up four excellent albums on the bounce and now On The Thirteenth Day joins that run of success and firmly establishes once and for all that Magnum should be seen as one of the best British Rock bands of all time.

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(422 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Deacon Blue, The Hipsters. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 25th 2012.

L.S.Media Rating ****

When Raintown was released 25 years ago Deacon Blue strode aloft the pop world and made sure that the finality of the 1980’s British music lovers had another band that would be remembered fondly and for good reason. Now 25 years later and ten years elapsing since their last studio album, Deacon Blue have returned with all guns blazing and produced a record of incredible quality befitting the past and yet sounding new and exciting.

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(362 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Paul Carrack, Good Feeling. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 25th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Paul Carrack’s latest offering is quite simply one to savour. Good Feeling is not only the name of this excellent album but also the mood it generates as the various pieces of music drift over you is akin to the very best waking dreams and nights in front of a roaring and comforting fire.

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(377 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

No Doubt, Push And Shove. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 25th 2012.

L.S.Media Rating *****

Gwen Stefani is back where she really belongs, back behind the microphone of one of the most original bands to come out of America in the last 20 years and seemingly having fun again with her three No Doubt male members.

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

Steve Harris, British Lion. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 26th 2012.

L.S. Media rating ***

British Lion, two words that pretty much sum up Iron Maiden’s founder member and bass player Steve Harris. The writer of a plethora of songs from the British heavy kings has cemented Steve Harris as one of the godfathers of Heavy Metal and quite rightly so.

Now 22 years after his Iron Maiden band mate Bruce Dickinson released his debut album Tattooed Millionaire, Steve Harris has joined forces with Richard Taylor, David Hawkins, Grahame Leslie and Simon Dawson to produce an album that, might not roar like the beast it is represented by but also certainly doesn’t mew like a frightened kitten.

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(388 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Green Day, Uno. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 25th 2012.

Away from the last two Rock Opera specific albums that Green Day produced, the American band always managed to produce very good albums without straying too far from they stood for. Dookie was very cool and its follow up of Insomniac a step up to the big league.

This is the first of three albums due out in the next few months and worries that the group that bought such excellent songs as Wake Me Up When September Ends, the phenomenal Jesus of Suberbia and 21 Guns, have taken on a project too far look founded and it is enough to make a stone heart weep and their detractors making even louder noises of derision.

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(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

David Broad, Never Can Tell. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 24th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

David Broad is one serious find when it comes to new music and yet his influences are more in keeping with the country and blues legends of the 20’s and 30’s and his new album Never Can Tell reflects this perfectly.

For someone who may be an unknown quantity in his native home, David has played in some very far reaching places whilst he has perfected a very obvious talent. From London and Brighton to Paris and Memphis, on a porch in Mississippi to the stage of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, if travel does indeed broaden the mind, then not only is David’s surname in keeping but his music is as well.

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(344 words, 1 image, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Marillion, Sounds That Can’t Be Made. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 17th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

For 30 years Marillion have been proving their new album title wrong, they have surely made every musical note perspire, hum like an angel and make grown men quiver at the knees with ease of their performances. Now the band that some critics have spent their life rubbishing and others extolling the virtues of have released their new album; the exceptional Sounds That Can’t Be Made and like 2004’s Marbles it is an album of genius and sheer quality.

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

Joanne Shaw Taylor, Almost Always Never. Album Review.

Originally  published by L.S. Media. September 14th 2012.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

If any proof were needed that you don’t have to have been born in America, be past the age of 30, nor have been born male to understand or more importantly feel how the blues can be played, audiences need look no further than Midlands raised Joanne Shaw Taylor and her incredible new album, Almost Always Never.

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