Tag Archives: E.P. Review

Ed Poole, Winters. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are some E.P.s and albums released that are designed to make you sit and listen to them, it is their function and reason to be. Whether it is your favourite band’s new commercial offering or an album that you have been compelled to purchase via the thousand commercials that have bombarded the television and radio, they have been almost solely created to make that awful thing called a buzz. In Ed Poole’s case his E.P. hasn’t been designed to make you listen but it something of a pleasure to find yourself doing knowing that the sweet sound he creates is genuine and honest.

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(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Jo Bywater, Chasing Tales. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Earlier in the year, Jo Bywater started thinking about recording more music once again. It has been just over two years since she released her astonishing debut album Cycle Grace Pulse Break and every day since then has seemed a little greyer. There has been the wonderful surprise gig in which to catch her at and relish in the way her songs nurse your psyche but with any decent performer, what the heart yearns for is new songs in which to enjoy and to know they are still actively in love with what they do.

Jo Bywater, Chasing Tales. E.P. Review. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

A Lovely War, Ezra. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Everybody starts somewhere, the great and the good, the seemingly indestructible icons of stage, cinema and music and everyday walk of life. Everybody has a back story, the fledgling beginnings which in time show how, in this case the group of musicians, took themselves on from humble beginnings and with perspiration, dogged determination and age can be sensational. Such is the proposition facing A Lovely War and the quirky, certainly enjoyable E.P. Ezra.

A Lovely War, Ezra. E.P. Review. full post

(338 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Thomas McConnell, Worried About Thomas McConnell. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Worried About Thomas McConnell? On the evidence of his E.P., you really shouldn’t be as the young man with verve, style and the sweetness of attitude has produced four songs that typify the resilience of the young talented artists, musicians and people in everyday life to make their voice heard.

Thomas McConnell, Worried About Thomas McConnell. E.P. Review. full post

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

The Last Scout. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When a band puts out an E.P. or album that has the flash of inspiration attached to it by supplementing the musical aura with a touch of mystique, the ears tend to get just a little more excited and the brain digs just that little bit harder to understand what makes the group and the music tick. With The Last Scout layering secretive messages from the start with the sound of a pre-Second World War radio drama broadcast in which the idea of courage and making a stand is paramount, the E.P. brims with clever vocals and music which bounces along in a way that is reminiscent to the way that the much underrated Yorkshire band Dead Like Harry sounded.

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(311 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

Caves, One. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you can listen to the Caves’ new E.P., One, and not feel the pulse, the sensation of something that grips the attention and the raw emotion that is stamped throughout the three tracks, then there is no hope for you. The pothole that you poked your head over and scanned the musical horizon briefly may just be too comfortable for you too ever leave.

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(327 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Lewis Fieldhouse, Born Human, Raised Human. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sat in front of a stereo, or stood in a venue under the glaringly sympathetic eye of the performer   and listening to music is perhaps the best slice of Heaven any human being can hope to have. It transcends almost any other pursuit save actually playing the often exquisite notes and receiving the nods of hopeful approval from the listener. Although the word divine brings up the idea of something celestial or perceived God-like state, it is as close to the delight you feel when listening to Lewis Fieldhouse’s new E.P.  Born Human, Raised Human.

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(294 words, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Are We Here? E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sometimes to appreciate what music from a city offered you, you have to delve fully into its past. You have to find out what worked and turned the population’s heads and captured the spirit of the time, the elusive zeitgeist that pops its being round at the seemingly most opportune times and captures the soul of the city.

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Are We Here? E.P. Review. full post

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

The Hummingbirds, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The sheer magnetism that runs through The Hummingbirds, whether in their live sets which sets the pulses racing as if being hooked up to the national grid or in the studio recordings which just seem to get better and better, certainly marks them out as being part of the new breed, the surging confidence in music from Merseyside.

Their latest self-titled E.P. release epitomizes this and once more the band has come up with a set of music which has been strung together in timeless fashion and made to resemble a piece of work that gets pawed at, eyes glowing with anticipation as the prospect of each song coming through the speakers is nothing short of tantalising.

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

Eddie Cooney, Moirai. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Liverpool’s Eddie Cooney is the perfect example of a musician who doesn’t let life get in the way of achieving what he sets out to do, regardless of the employment that pays the bills; there is always time to go after your dream. There are certainly those who could do a lot worse than listen Mr. Cooney and realise this and look at their own potential. For Eddie though the music he has been inspired to record for his E.P. Moirai is enough to suggest that this hugely likeable man and artist keeps also inspiring others, for surely that is what he has done over the course of the five tracks.

Eddie Cooney, Moirai. E.P. Review. full post

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