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Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners: Too-Rye-Ay – As It Should Have Sounded. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It makes you wonder how many artists are forced to downplay their true vision just have their creation even in the public domain, how many writers allow a significant event to be pulled, how many painters are told to lose a certain temperament, what percentage of musicians are told if they wish to have their belief heard then they have to allow it to be altered by the studio, the P.R. machine, or the one who pricks their thumbs for the contract to be signed in blood.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Foxton & Hastings: The Butterfly Effect. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

What was once familiar will always come round again, only this time with an edge to it that will the reminisces feeling overwhelmed, and the new sound embracing the time-honoured as if it was a frequent visitor that had all the answers to the questions being asked.

From The Jam to working alongside a captivating frontman. This is establishment of the genius that Bruce Foxton has come to signify, and in his partnership with Russell Hastings has flourished accordingly, and the strength of their time together on stage has only enhanced what is evident in their new album, The Butterfly Effect.

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(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Sunjay: Black & Blues Revisited. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are those that understand, and then there are those who are wrong. To willingly open up and admit that the soul is suffering is not the act of misery, or the excess of emotions that some will describe as wallowing in self-pity or indulgence, it is heroism, it is accepting that the blues are part and parcel of a life that requires growth after the despair, of the personal unhappiness, and that even to be seen as melancholic is a finer attribute than to be shown as a sneering, unfeeling monster whose appalling lack of empathy for another human being in distress is revealed as those who lack judgment, who only wish to revisit constant harm upon the soul.

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(479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott: N.K-Pop. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Observation, too few find their wit and their senses keen in the face of distractions, the constant barrage of noise masquerading as information, the titbit veiled as highly classified data, the softly whispered moment of gossip acting as evidence in trials and judgements, we have become deaf to the art of listening, blind to the reality of our existence and partnerships and struck dumb in an age of mass communication; this a truth of our moment on the spinning rock we call home, we see everything through closed eyes believing that our memory is untainted by others in our orbit.

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

Miles Hunt: Things Can Change. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Things Can Change…we must believe that, for everyday for the better, sometimes for the worse, we are presented with the truth of those three words, the power of their conviction and their universality. The understanding that we are immersed into a large overwhelming society where there are people that will go out of their way to provide fear, loathing, and hatred in the hope that your life can spiral out of control, is to only love those whose heart explodes with meaning and sincerity more.

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

Studio 666. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Chris Shiflett, Whitney Cummings, Jeff Garlin, Leslie Grossman, Jenna Ortega, Marti Matulis, Kerry King, Will Forte, Jason Trost, Mike Escamilla, Lional Richie, John Carpenter, Jimmi Simpson, Alexander Ward, Eli Santana, Aaron Valenzuela, Kayla Loadvine, Ivan Kungurtsey.

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(750 words, estimated 3:00 mins reading time)

This Way Comes Geoff…

What if we have been mispronouncing the Grim Reaper’s name wrong for all of humanity’s time on Earth.

What if early humans were visited by the figure in black, the scythe held ungainly in the air as the imminent passing of the person was announced, and they asked of this stranger with the power over their very life, “And what do we call you, veiled outsider, so others may come to fear you; please say it aloud to my brethren so they may pass on your hallowed name as a warning…”

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(125 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Only Child: Looking Forward To Looking Back – A Decade Of Only Child. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Time is there to either be sacrificed upon the cross of our dreams or fears, or it is the guide in which we walk, unafraid of its own lengthy shadow, understanding of all it has seen, what it chooses to forget, what it decides needs to be remembered; what we do with that information is up to us, how we deal with a year, two, a decade of information, of good times, or reflection and possible answers is purely down to us.

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(560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Queensrÿche: Digital Noise Alliance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter how much we may deny it, we are now in a new era, not so much A.D. but perhaps more P.P., Post Pandemic, the signs are there, the drama seems unending, and it is not all down to a disease that caught the world out, it is a reaction and reflection to the unknown, the sense that the analogue has run out of room, and the Digital Noise Alliance stands at the gates of what is now acceptable, and what has been left behind.

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(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Beth Orton: Weather Alive. Album Review.

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As the lyric suggests, the weather is a state of mind, it is part of the system that governs, that nature decrees. The weather is not fixed, it is fluid, ever changeable, ever possessed by the spirit of generosity and malevolence that mirrors that of the human being it follows…it could be argued that the question is not of the natural world but that it is the Weather Alive, that is sensitive and alert to the needs below on Earth, and whether we have pushed it to its extremes by not caring enough for its welfare.

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(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)