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Justin Levinson: Collamer Circle. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Justin Levinson is a name that arguably won’t be familiar to the music lovers of the U.K., and that as is stands, is okay, for the nature of the islands is often insular, only embracing long after the introductions and with a wariness that comes from shaking hands too often with that which eventually fades away. Only the hardiest of listeners push the virtue of that which could inspire, and when the message finally hits home, what is created is a lens of enjoyment, a full stare down the musical barrel and one that is a true creation by one who himself was inspired by the likes of the legendary Lester Bowie and Fontella Bass.

Erasure: Always (The Very Best Of Erasure). Vinyl reissue (2023) Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

How we measure Time is one of artificial construct, and yet like other species, we can find ourselves not thinking of it in ways of the seconds and hours, of the days taken from us as we wrestle with nostalgia and hope of finer times, but in terms of how sculpture evolves for the artist.

Olivia Ross: Grace The Blue. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Perhaps its prophetic, more certainly timely, but as the stunning Olivia Ross delivers her immense debut solo album to the fans and music lovers, so we should turn our back on the grey and look to Grace The Blue skies that will, if we embrace the opportunity to do away with all that we understand to be toxic, all that we have clung onto in the hope they will lead us to some mythical utopian dream. 

Maggie Moore(s). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jon Hamm, Christopher Denham, Tina Fey, Nick Mohammed, Mary Holland, Allison Dunbar, Happy Anderson, Louise Krause, Oona Roche, Tate Ellington, Richard Lippert, Micah Stock, Gabriela Alicia Ortega, Peter Diseth, Joseph Ortega, Nicholas Azarian, Bobbi Kitten, Crystal Mayes, Jodi Lynn Thomas, Derek Basco, Sewell Whitney, Roni Geva, Christopher Kriesa, Bryant Carroll, Kristin K. Berg, Sale Taylor, Jeff Allen, Claire Hinkley.

1883. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tim McGraw, Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Audie Rick, Marc Rissmann, James Landry Hébert, Anna Fiamora, Malcolm Stephenson, Amanda Jaros, Jordan Walker Ross, Stephen Austin Long, Konstantin Melikhov, Eric Nelsen, Noah Le Gros, Josef Bette, Eric Bear, James Jordan, Rob Mello, Martin Sensmeier, Sacha Seberg, Neal Kodinsky, Daen Olivieri, David Midthunder, Billy Bob Thornton, Rita Wilson, Graham Greene, Tom Hanks.

Doctor Who: Once And Future: A Genius For War. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Beth Chalmers, Esmonde Cole, Terry Molloy, Yasmin Mwanza, Stephen Noonan, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

The Time War is a moment in science fiction history that sends waves of anticipation and excitement down the spine of those to whom understand the sheer significance it afforded the fanatics and dedicated buffs of the long running British series Doctor Who.

Rabbit Hole. Televison Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Meta Golding, Enid Graham. Rob Yang, Walt Klink, Charles Dance, Jason Butler Harner, Alexandra Castillo, Matthew MacFadzean, Maia Jae Bastidas, Wendy Makkena, Peter Weller, Phil Burke, Jonas Chernick, Graham Harvey, Elisa Campanella, Jorja Cadence, Ishan Davé, Erin Karpluk, Jed Rees, Josetta Jorge, Stephen Bogaert, Megan Follows, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Lance Henriksen.

The conspiracy theory is often always proved, if not completely vindicated, then at least remarkably close to being true; or at least as many would have you believe.

Joseph Houck: Haunts & Wants. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

That which we desire haunts us, then when we finally attain that which stole our waking dreams, we arguably allow it to control us, never to seek its counsel, only to divide our soul and brain into two different factions; one which concerns itself with managing the wonder, and that which wants more, that which demands an extension of the feeling, the rush, in which it first experienced the joy at hand.

William The Conqueror: Excuse Me While I Vanish. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We don’t truly disappear in an instant, one day we are here the next we are not; for even in the final moment between life and death the sense of self resides with hope…it is more that we slowly overtime vanish from view, what we perceive for us to be is slowly wiped away like a complex sum on a maths board that is poured over and studied and then slowly cleaned as the student moves on to more intricate methods of discerning the subject matter.

Thom Morecroft: Waiting For Leo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Every little thing we do is documented from the moment we come into the world, and if we are fortunate, that comes in the form of art, through the skill and performance of a person who will do anything, who will tear apart the world, just to make you smile.

A dedication on an album will give us a glow, a mention in a biography will leave a lasting impression for the generations that follow us on Time’s crazy stone paving; to be the star of the tale, the inspiration, the stimulus for the artist’s pursuit of examination will forever be the lodestone of our time on Earth, for we are the reason a piece of art, in whatever form, exists.