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Jake Aarons: Always Seeking. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Looking for something in the world that will take your mind off the diamonds you have neglected upon the way will have you Always Seeking where the dust has grown, and the riverbed has gone dry.

The vantage point of discovery is seemingly lost as time goes by, and yet if you understand that the waters of life are more valuable than that of mere trinkets and gems, then you know that the trail laid will always see you home; so that which you were seeking becomes a prized possession…the gift most loved, that of the sound of a human heart telling its story when you are ready to hear it being told.

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

Gwenan Gibbard: Hen Ganeuon Newydd. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Those New Old Songs…they resonate in ways that beguiles the mind. For those that speak in a different language, where the vocal is coded in mystery to the non-native speaker, it is the universal that explains the words, and the feelings that are unearthed as it sways to the voice is where the listener finds their own explanation of why it captures their heart.

Gwenan Gibbard: Hen Ganeuon Newydd. Album Review. full post

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

The Pawn Shop Saints: Weeds. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have been conditioned to believe that allowing weeds to grow is the product of an unproductive mind, that they destroy the love and attention bestowed on the colourful and popular plants; and by nature’s fancy, are to be chopped down with a vengeance that is akin to a biblical gesture of deliverance.

Weeds plays more than a part in the world, weeds are the first things we notice when the world insists it is too perfect for anything other than flawless; that the wild and uncontrollable, that the eager and hardy, those that withstand storms with greater ferocity deep in their stems must give way to fragile and dull, and often overhyped, flowers in the pristine soil.

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

Sam Burton: Dear Departed. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Just as others see a version of us that even a close friend wouldn’t recognise by its description of our emotions and attitude, so we ourselves are confronted by a thousand facets of who we are when we gaze in the mirror or when we are startled by our reflection in a shop window when the bad hair day is the least of our social problems.

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(435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

D.E. McCluskey: The Boyfriend. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Horror may come in different guises, the simple fact that the most terrifying is that which comes close to home is what will scare you most.

You can read about mutant insects that make your skin scratch and itch as though they are running around in your body, you can feel the terror in the unexplained, the vampires, the ghouls, the psycho goblins, the spectres that float and the demons who will tear you limb from limb, but nothing comes close to the truth that fear is driven by the one that you invite into your home.

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(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

The Full Monty. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Paul Barber, Steve Huison, Paul Clayton, Lesley Sharp, Miles Jupp, Talitha Wing, Natalie Davies, Tom Wilkinson, Sophie Stanton, Dominic Sharkey, Philip Rhys Chaudhary, Joshua Jo, Tupele Dorgu, William Fox, Aiden Cook, Hugo Speer, Wim Snape, Arnold Oceng, Susan Hilton, Bruce Jones, Jessica Lee, Emily Bevan.

Should we ever revisit a success?

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(673 words, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Sean Taylor: Short Stories. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Not everyone has the novel inside of them. For many, life’s routine is such that a moment out of the ordinary is enough to create and weave a story that they can dine out on for a while with friends, an instant in the sun in which their life holds meaning beyond the grey and the beige to which they join others in producing Short Stories that build into a larger collection, published, printed, and the spotlight of existence on them for enough time for it to be remarkable.

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(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Bloodbound: Tales From The North. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The south may be more alluring, but it is the history of the north people that gives our own islands a deeper resonance, a timbre of earthly tone that has shaped the present in narration and its account on the world.

To be enchanted by the tales from that which crosses a different sea is to be expected, to be held with attention, curiosity and awareness, but to be mindful that which gave us our beginnings, stories, fables and sagas which live deep in the D.N.A. and which Tales From The North, of longboats and invaders, of towns and village names that have withstood history and time with just a corruption in the evolution of language adding flavour to those days and people that remain vocal as they whisper from the past.

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

All For Metal: Legends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We hold fast to the notion of Legends and myths because we are in a time dominated by the small minded and mediocre. Those legends, tales of heroism, fierce loyalty to darkness and the light, of creatures spawned and angels wielding swords with impunity, those are the days which give meaning to the premise of marvels witnessed and traditions created.

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

Van Der Valk: Magic In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Azen Ahmed, Django Chan-Reeves, James Atherton, Eleanor Fanyinka, Olivia D’Lima, Clara Onyemere, Steven Pacey, Esra Abdioglu, Annelies Appelhof, Shaima Boone, Poal Cairo, Robert Mitchell, Joris Smit, Loes Haverkort, Mike Libanon.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)