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Genesis: New York By The Pound – Felt Forum in NYC, 1973. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There can be no doubting the cultural impact that legendary British Progressive Rock Giants Genesis have had on the conscious of the nation and the wider world, the exuberance of performance maintained in the early days of shifting the focus on to visual aid and story-telling and through to the final glory in 2008, and the trip down memory lane in 2022, all lights, camera, action, and spellbound audiences wishing to live just for a while in the core of a genre they helped shape and illuminate.

Genesis: New York By The Pound – Felt Forum in NYC, 1973. Album Review. full post

(564 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Will Stewart: Slow Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Slow Life is one of virtuous content, and one that we dismiss the offer of living to our detriment and to our downfall; for life may be one of continual excitement if we live it in the fast lane, only using our homes as a place to lay our heads, barely making a connection with anything that houses our memories, our thoughts scattered to the winds, our dreams uncontained because we have not taken the proper time and consideration to believe they can be allowed to roam and not tethered by societal demands.

Will Stewart: Slow Life. Album Review. full post

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

Steve Dawson & The Telescope 3: Phantom Threshold. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can dip in and out of an album at will, arguably it is the one art form that you can entertain the idea of the listener dictating of how it is to be visualised in their minds without causing a fuss; but like a painting by Constable, a French cinema examination of a woman’s life in the shadows, or series of novels where the heroics and pain are entwinned with each page being read in the right order, so an album should truly be held in esteem enough to never question the integrity and thought of the musician who asks of you a simple request…listen to how the album plays out in the mind of its creator at all times.

Steve Dawson & The Telescope 3: Phantom Threshold. Album Review. full post

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

The Midwich Cuckoos: Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Keeley Hawes, Max Beesley, Aisling Loftus, Ukweli Roach, Lara Rossi, Synnove Karlsen, Hannah Tointon, Rebekah Staton, Mark Dexter, Marianne Oldham, Lewis Reeves, India Amarteifio, Cherrelle Skeete, Amy Cuddon, Samuel West, Dexter Sol Ansell, Laura Doddington, Georgia Thorne, Jade Harrison, Scarlett Leigh, Erin Ainsworth, Billie Gadsdon, Evan Scott, Kaylen Luke, Natalia Harris, Aditi Pothuganti.

The world created by John Wyndham deserves the praise he achieved in his lifetime, and the respect he has posthumously garnered and maintained in the decades since his passing in 1969.

The Midwich Cuckoos: Television Drama Review. full post

(687 words, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)

David Paich: Forgotten Toys. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

That favourite toy, perhaps a stuffed yellow bear with a crooked smile and limp left foot from where it has been flicked absentmindedly for years, never leaves you, it never truly leaves your memories of times when life was simpler than you ever gave it credit for, when the pleasure of even sitting with something precious in your arms was taken for granted.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Ms. Marvel. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Iman Vellani, Matt Lintz, Zenobia Shroff, Yasmeen Fletcher, Rish Shah, Nimra Bucha, Samina Ahmed, Mohan Kapur, Aylsia Reiner, Anjali Bhimani, Saagar Shaikh, Adaku Ononogbo, Aramis Knight, Mehwish Hayat, Laural Marsden, Azhar Usman, Farhan Akhtar, Fawad Khan, Arian Moayed, Laith Nakli, Travina Springer, Vardah Aziz, Ali Alsaleh, Jordan Firstman, Asfandyer Khan, Dan Carter, Zion Usman, Connor Jones, Brie Larson. 

Ms. Marvel. Television Series Review. full post

(567 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Snowy White: Driving On The 44. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Of all the guitar players that Britain has produced, of all the songs, the pleasure derived and spread, the lists proclaiming the top ten, the must see, the great and the good, one name is perhaps conspicuous by its absence, and one to whom we collectively owe not only an apology for the omission, but huge thanks that he has continued to bring quality album after quality album to the listener’s attention, without fanfare, without the ordeal of celebration, just with the outstanding musicianship that Snowy White is overwhelmingly gifted at delivering.

Snowy White: Driving On The 44. Album Review. full post

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

Elton John: Regimental Sgt. Zippo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Elton John can make the listener believe in many things, love, acceptance, bravery, groove, the act of being cool even when the world raises an eyebrow in response, the fierce drive to succeed, but time travel, that perhaps is a step too far, even for the Rocket Man.

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(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: Clouds Across The Moon. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Max Bennett, Gerran Howell, Charlie Chambers, Liv Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Pearce Quigley, Claire Skinner, Joanna Riding, Joan Iyiola, Stefan Adegbola, Grace Francis.

There is a subsection of the police procedural crime fiction that the armchair detective will rave about, as if solving a murder wasn’t good enough for them, that they can battle their own wits against the investigator in charge, it is when the villain is so conniving, so  devious in their passion to prove they are just as clever as the one chasing them, if not more so, the complications presented to the viewer are boundless and enthralling to decipher.

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

Journey: Freedom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You cannot deny beauty its place in your observation of the world, if you do then the freedom you wish for yourself is a contradiction, and the refusal of others to see a form of splendour in action is an act of prevention, a forbidding social menace to which you be rightly lambasted and condemned for. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the Freedom it allows the individual is one that urges the soul to dig a little deeper, investigate more than what may lay on the surface, and in the end understand that the world needs truth in beauty, not an elaborate

Journey: Freedom. Album Review. full post

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)