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Jackson Williams: Live In Session. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Jackson Williams continue to impress. Five short words. Five words spoken in true honest praise. For in their latest release, Live In Session, the sense of purpose and charm they have always carried with them, is unrelenting and unashamedly cool, and so to carry the weight of expectation maybe a burden for some, but for Deborah Jackson and Skeet Williams, as well as fellow musicians, Andy Cooper and Sam Pritchard, it is a realistic set of measurable achievements.

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(357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Bella Gaffney: Reflections. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The reflections we see are often distorted by time and our own feelings of damnation that we carry through each day, the load becoming slightly heavier, slightly more cumbersome as time passes without us addressing the damage we may have caused, or the beauty we allowed to bypass us because we were too angry, too weak, too determined to miss it.

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(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Call Jonathan Pie. Podcast Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Walker, Lucy Pearman, Aqib Khan, Nick Revell, Daniel Abelson, Bob Sinfield, Rob Curling, Adam Byron, Bryony Corrigan, Emma Thornett, Liz White, Cole Anderson-James, Ellie Dobing, Sarah Gabriel, Ed Kear, Hope Leslie, Thanyia Moore, Jonathan Taffer, James O’Brien.

Think of how many great artistic creations come from the depths of the soul in which their opinions are more memorable than perhaps the face which delivered the immortal lines.

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(473 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Ellis Paul: 55. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Life begins…

…whenever you feel that you have found the one purpose in life that marks you out as unique, an individual, or as someone who has lived through adversity and complication and found a reason to give back to the world via art, artistry, and love.

It is easy to seek the validation of sympathy when you come through an ordeal, it is rarer to feel the warmth of empathy and the growl that accompanies the urging of continuance when you create an iconic moment for all to enjoy, to take heat with afterwards.

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(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett: Darktown. (2023 vinyl Re-issue: 2023.)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is within us all, a darkness which we must allow breathing space, the excitement and temptation of a future life that comes from highlighting and the re-evaluation of the past. When that moment itself becomes part of history, the need for reconsideration can be a powerful tool of both regret and equal contentment, the dichotomy of reason is uncontained as once more you are compelled to revise your appreciation of the light, and the Darktown where you first unwrapped all your feelings.

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Steve Hackett: Guitar Noir. 2023 Reissue. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Largely acknowledged as the quiet man of Genesis, without whom some of the most extraordinary of musical shapes and conquests would never have seen the band survive the initial days and albums when Peter Gabriel left, and which arguably propelled them onwards, and saw his own solo output take on a more adventurous and prolific dynamic which has seen him continually push the imagination and the themes of his music to places where assuredly they might never have been seen had he not, like his former bandmate, been bold and courageous and sought his own path to tread.

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

Elijah James And The Nightmares: The Hellish Bending Towards The Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

What we might perceive as Hell is only that which soon reveals itself to be salvation, the gateway to a higher plane of existence, a moment in which the light is noticed as a giver and not as first thought, a deceiver, an instrument of denial.

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

Roger Waters: The Lockdown Sessions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Should we leave the insane nonsense behind when we speak of a Roger Waters release, or should we confront it head on and put the record straight?

It is impossible to think that there are those who will seek out the name and attach thought, though it be free, which quite absurdly suggests the very opposite of what Mr. Water’s music, his lyrics and the stage shows he has performed within since his days as part of a fledgling underground phenomenon known as Pink Floyd, has espoused, and countered and yet not see the irony in it.

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

Foo Fighters: But Here We Are. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A place and a time that must come to us all, how we confront it, how we deal with the emotion, how we move on as they have faded, it is up to us. Some rage in the dying of the light, some accept that the world needs to change, and a few, a daring and persuasive few, will play with melancholy and reason, they will charm and conspire with the memory and produce, not tears, but a flood of recalls, reminisces, and recollections that collide fiercely and with beauty installed into every drop of feeling within what will become art.

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(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)