Tag Archives: album review

Jack White, Lazaretto. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It can’t be a coincidence, no matter how good The White Stripes were, and they were rather first-rate for the vast majority of songs that they produced, that Jack White has just got better and better as a musician and lyric writer since those long gone halcyon days. His latest solo album, Lazaretto, is one of such quality that it is hard to ignore. The American Rock/Country/Celtic vibe hybrid is a fascinating delve into the mind of one of America’s real musical icons of the last 15 years that at times you have to wonder if the man will ever bother writing an autobiography, for everything you think you want to know is played out in the lyrics of his enormous body of work.

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

Brother Firetribe, Diamond In The Firepit. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

The shape of things to come and a hell of a nod to the British Rock scene of the 1980s in an intensity breathing, fist punching, engine ready to combust and an energetically dismissive of the some of the pomp that parades itself in the rock banner of recent years. It seems that if you really want to rock, ask a band from the Scandinavian set of countries and if you want to rock hard then ask Finland’s Brother Firetribe.

Brother Firetribe, Diamond In The Firepit. Album Review. full post

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

Sue Hedges, Outta Party. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The person who said you cannot do it all, had either never met Liverpool song writer Sue Hedges or was perhaps so embittered by life, that they were doing all they could do to put anybody off trying their best and enjoying fruits of many labours.

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(395 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Walter Trout, The Blues Came Callin’. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is a genuine light in the playing of Walter Trout that few can match or even should really be allowed to preoccupy themselves with. The light of a man who plays the Blues knowing he has lived it, not just existed in its shadow but breathed it in, made love with each note running through each finger and thrived in each display of melancholic artistry.

Walter Trout, The Blues Came Callin’. Album Review. full post

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

Gina Villalobos, Sola. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The overwhelming sense of openness, of regret and vulnerability filters itself out from the stereo and plays heartbreakingly into the exposed space that is created by Gina Villalobos. The slight touch of guitar, never far the soul, asks many questions of what it is to be truly allow yourself to feel pain, loss and rejection, the rationality of self-understanding and the clarity and prerequisite of being human.

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

Pete Bentham And The Dinner Ladies, I Love Here. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To have spent many a gig in the company of Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies is not going to prepare you for just how good they sound, just how wickedly delicious and note-worthy they are tasty a band when allowed the freedom to wax lyrically in an anarchistic scrumptious style.

There is so much right with I Love Here that to take it in one sitting will leave you feeling bloated with over listening, it needs to be savoured, to hit over the metaphorical head of those whose greed makes them uncaring and  not sharing, those who wouldn’t understand the irony presented to them if served on a silver spoon with a topping of sarcasm sauce for effect.

Pete Bentham And The Dinner Ladies, I Love Here. Album Review. full post

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

The Most, Auto-Destructive Art. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst the rest of the world rages about the well-oiled pursuit of extravagant happiness and despair, it seems that the Nordic lands are quite happy just to get on with it and play incredibly good music. Not that they care any less what is happening to the world but it just seems they can talk about it and raise awareness anyway they can through their music so much better than most other nations.

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

Coco Montoya, Songs From The Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you take nothing else from the latest double album released by Ruf Records in their Songs From The Road Series, then the fact that Coco Montoya is a musical genius, a work of art painting the picture that itself deserves framing, placing inside a gallery for all too see and adoring wistfully that if only you could have stuck at the lessons granted you, should be the thought that haunts you till the end of your days.

Coco Montoya, Songs From The Road. Album Review. full post

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

Spygenius, The Comforting Suture. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Although Spygenius’ album The Comforting Suture came out in 2012, to find it amongst the spread out and slightly eclectic offerings on a long table, could be seen as serendipity, a moment of providence in which to take full advantage of and delve into at the very earliest convenience.

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

Kontiki Suite, On Sunset Lake. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The still waters of a lake a deceptively deep, they can pull you in with their obvious translucent charm and give you hours of pleasure as you take a sort of sanctuary in the coolness on offer. Not all lakes or lochs are like this, others contain worded dangers, the keep out sign easily seen from the water’s edge and to even dip your toe in the blackness that thrives in the foam could be a hazard the lyrically unstable could be keen on missing out on.

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(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)