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Vincent Burke: A Conversation With Fate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The question is always who you would have a last conversation with if you could bring back just person to sit with you a while, and whilst that may, will be enlightening, soothing to the soul, it should be noted that perhaps a finer and more fitting discussion would be one with one of the universe’s entities.

Terence Blacker: Meanwhile… . Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Great people are forged in times of indecision and recklessness, in times of fire, but those who come to be a vision of the illustrious in the minds of the public are rarely seen in the temporary light, and never in the moment of a fair-weather change of topical discussion. Such is the attitude of Meanwhile…that the moment where the listener expects the sudden change of pace from that of the miserable and beige average that they had been used to from others, to the enlightening and joyful during the serious conversation.

Red Winter: Until It Breaks. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A vibe, whether for good or for ill, will catch your attention. Politics will do this, so will almost any preoccupation in life, but whilst these machinations of the mind will do so and then leave you hanging with just an idea for company, art will put them under a microscope and examine the feelings unearthed, like a scientist seeing the proof of existence in the smallest detail, so art will inflame the passion of the long since unconcerned and inject a fearsome connection that will resound in the soul for as long as the vibe lasts.

Roadhouse: 2,000 Miles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Out of adversity comes strong and driven people. It is those who are willing to walk 2,000 Miles more to see justice done to bring a smile to the face of the dispossessed and lonely, that bring the world to as a near balance as possible…for these are the ones who have seen the damage done, felt Time’s sporadic cruelty first hand, and who have done their upmost to rise above the harm, and offered a shoulder to lean on and an arm to hold as the march to the beauty in the distance is undertaken.

Zeitklein: You Want It All To Last. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is no harm in the belief of forever. Everyone needs to have something, anything in life that is permanent, that cannot be taken away by another person, for ill or for good, what you desire, what you need is a stabilising fixed point to which your life is based and drawn from.

War Of The Worlds (Series Three). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Léa Druker, Gabriel Byrne, Bayo Gbadamosi, Ty Tennant, Pearl Chanda, Paul Gorostidi, Emilie de Preissac, Aaron Heffernan, Ania Sowinski, Adel Bencherif, Pieter Genard, Lukas Haas, Lizzie Brocheré, Molly Windsor, Jack Barton, Michael Marcus, Georgina Rich, Alex Heath, Luke Malby, Florence Bell, Seb Slade, Daisy Maywood.

Aside from the title it shares, there is little to connect the third season of Howard Overman’s War Of The Worlds and that of its more famous namesake, The original novel by the godfather of British Science Fiction, H.G. Wells, and yet it doesn’t stop it from being a tale woven with greater sincerity and fierce drama than almost any adaption of the work, aside from the incredible Jeff Wayne musical extravaganza which is fast approaching its 50th anniversary.

Rebecca Downes: The Space Between Us. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Space Between Us is looked upon by some as a reason to wage war, that it is a division that is too wide to bridge, to reach across with open hands and challenge not in conflict, but in peace; and then there are those who see the space as a way to be filled by any means necessary to make contact, those open hands not just reaching out, but actively holding out for the belief that space is just a way to grow, to make the distance so small that our lives rightly overlap and be as one.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Trouble Is…25. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Don’t let the full stop fool you, a poem is never truly finished, it just waits to evolve, to have the writer look up from the implement of their trade and the Muse of their desires and contemplate adding a line that has just struck them, as inspiration is apt to do, at the advent of a monumental moment in time.

Anniversaries, notable ones, are there for reflection, and a gift, and the finest of those are the ones that look upon the event being honoured and celebrated and with their own mind see a way to comment upon, perhaps even improve the initial moment.

Jude Adams: Freedom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

People search for the fabled land of Freedom, without ever realising they are standing in the exact centre of it from the moment they first gain consciousness and delight in the appearance of each brand new day that unfolds as the sun streaks across the sky; it is only in our apparent need to keep ourselves in boxes, constantly labelling ourselves with the latest fashion stigma, naming ourselves this, that, and sometimes the other, that traps us, that erodes our freedom to be.

Shadow Captain: Home Is The Hero. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes”, the point taken, understood and arguably looked upon as a template of emotional sacrifice that we must share equally as we look to those who give their all so that others may live to fight another day.

It is a sacrifice intended to make the survivor feel indebted to the idea that heroism is an artifice, that by having heroes entails a sense of wretched idealism, and yet it is more about the loss, a surrender to grief, for what is grief, but a love never forgotten, a love that bravely withstands the winds of snide and malicious intent to do the soul of the bereft harm.