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Michael McDermott: St. Paul’s Boulevard. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is not just for the preserve of storytellers, to have imagination is a gift that we all should aspire to, if not master, then at least nurture; to bring forth characters from a full pen and make them come alive, allow the scenario of the street to infuse them with a pulse and belief – for by doing so, by painting pictures with words, music, and melody, we can inspire a new world to take shape around us, a world of possibilities that might lead us to the one street, the one road where broken dreams are made whole again.

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

The Outlaws (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, Charles Babalola, Jessica Gunning, Stephen Merchant, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Christopher Walken, Grace Calder, Aiyana Goodfellow, Dolly Wells, Kojo Kamara, Tom Hanson, Ian McElhinney, Nina Wadia, Guillermo Bedward, Isla Gie, Gyuri Sarossy, Marcus Fraser, Lois Chimimba, Amanda Drew, Claes Bang, Joseph Passafaro, Chicho Tche, Jessica Boyde, Rufus Wright, Chloe Partridge, Rosa Robson, Julia Davis, Verity Blyth, Jonny Weldon, Gabrielle Sheppard.

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

The Staircase. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner, Dane DeHaan, Vincent Vermignon, Juliette Binoche, Tim Guinee, Parker Posey, Justice Leak, Olivia DeJonge, Rosemarie DeWitt, Robert Clayton, Cory Scott Allen, Hannah Pniewski, Myke Holmes, Kevin Sizemore, Ryan Lewis, Maria Dizzia, Susan Pourfar, Frank Feys, Trini Alvarado, Andre Martin, Cullen Moss, Daniela Lee.

Murder divides opinion, of that there is no doubt, especially when the deceit of ambiguity takes its place on the stage and forensic science can be seen to have faltered, questioned, shown to be in the hands of those whose very judgement can be found wanting as their own agenda dirties the water of the truth beyond recognition.

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(690 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Asia: Live At The Budokan Tokyo 1983. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

People put a large amount of faith in the consideration of what it means to be iconic; however, they sometimes miss the point that it doesn’t necessarily have to be the most perfect representation of the image that the artist has completed in which to have been placed at the door of the quintessential in which to be loved, adored, found to be an expression of movement.

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(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Rod Picott: Paper Hearts & Broken Arrows. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Storm chasers are often described as mad, often driven by an electricity we cannot fathom, see, or wish to be near, for who in their right mind would suffer nature at her most violent and unpredictable, the trail of Broken Hearts & Broken Arrows that are attached to these acrobats of the natural phenomenon, the hunters of the ephemeral but which carries the long-lasting effect on the Earth it strikes.

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

Dominie Hooper: Anno. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In Time and a word, we find the sense of new beginnings, we find the division between what was, and what might come next, a four-letter word that creates the fine line between past and the future and in which the moment in between is all we can hope as we focus our senses on change, on altering the narrative of expression that has thus so far guided us.

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(353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Dan Reed Network: Let’s Hear It For The King. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The divide that was to be seen as mere chasm, is now, by definition, an unassailable ocean. We are expected to cheer for the King, the president, the leader of a nation, as they wear the attire made of gold, whilst all around them are instructed to be thankful they have rags to wear.

Dan Reed Network: Let’s Hear It For The King. Album Review. full post

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

Nicki Bluhm: Avondale Drive. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Nostalgia was once regarded as a dangerous disease of the mind, an overpowering yearning of regret and sentimentality, actively warned against and sometimes, unfairly, cruelly, the person displaying such curios and tempers of the emotion, would be avoided for want of spreading the feeling as if it was an infection, a sickness that would cause society to become ill.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Before Breakfast: I Could Be Asleep If It Weren’t For You. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The line between desire and need is a thin one. Both emotional responses though are linked by the hunger that becomes apparent when the requirement for rest becomes overwhelming, and the craving for an altogether different kind of subsistence is irresistible and crushing.

The same required sense of engulfing consuming power comes when the time to place before the world all that you have been working on, the spirit that has been urging you to have your thoughts, your mind, your voice heard; the belief of your craft against the overthrowing of the need to recuperate and claiming back of your own soul.

Before Breakfast: I Could Be Asleep If It Weren’t For You. Album Review. full post

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

Tamsin Elliott: Frey. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What we carefully plan as we sow in the fields is eventually realised on the plate in front of us.

Tamsin Elliott’s realisation of her entrancing debut solo album, Frey, is one born of the fertility of the metaphorical soil she has nurtured her own sound within as part of the demonstratively cool fusion project Solana. It is this planting of ideas and the reaping for the benefit of all who enjoy the taste of her musical wares, that Frey exploration of healing and the process of accepting grief is a milestone of passion, not only for the musician, but for anyone caught in the maelstrom of being in the limbo of modern times, of the effect that insurmountable sorrow heaped upon our collective shoulders has had.

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(364 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)