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The Black Feathers: Angel Dust & Cyanide. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In not one chemistry lesson as a teenager did you ever come across the spectacle of the mix of Angel Dust & Cyanide in a test tube and watching the outcome with steamed up glasses covering your eyes and the asbestos mat ready to catch the flowing liquid in which would result in elaborately drawn conclusions, and awesome results.

The Matrix: Resurrections. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 5/10

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris, Jada Pinkett Smith, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Christina Ricci, Lambert Wilson, Andrew Lewis Caldwell, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt, Joshua Grothe, Brian J. Smith, Eréndira Ibarra, Michael X. Sommers.

The Matrix trilogy can be seen truly as a cultural phenomenon; admittedly one that was at its peak in the first of the films delivered to a film loving crowd wowed by its cinematography and effects, but still a series of films that asked questions of our perceived vision of reality, and how we were, and continue, to be enveloped by the idea of being repressed by a superior mind just to appear that we are indeed in control of our own destiny.

Dual. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul, Beulah Koale, Theo James, Elina Jackson, Maija Paunio, Rea Lest, June Hyde, Kristofer Gummerus, Nico Siekkinen, Jani Siekkinen, Elsa Saisio, Remu Valisaari, Minea Valisaari, Amira Khalifa, Andrei Alén, Aram Tertzakian, Darren McStay, Rasmus Blomquist, Sophia Heikkilä, Robert Enckell, Lelsie Hyde, Katariina Hayukainen.

Diamanda La Berge Dramm: Chimp. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Poetry is not a poor relation to the world of art, it does not sit at the back of the class looking out of the window and reminisce over the times it was able to sit under the tree, chew on a blade of grass and write whimsical metaphorical observances down for their eyes only – Poetry is a leader, an inspiration, it insists that all art is equal and urges all to sit at the table in the same way that King Arthur and the Knights of old achieved parity and union.

Pistol. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Sydney Chandler, Jacob Slater, Talulah Riley, Maisie Williams, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Louis Partridge, Francesca Mills, Christian Lees, Ferdo Walsh-Peelo, Lorne MacFadyen, Toby Woolf, Rory Alexander, Jay Simpson, Beth Dillon, Emma Appleton.

Never mind the Big Bang, for many the social upheaval and the meeting of a few bored young men, two special women, and one radical entrepreneur, set alight, and arguably changed the world, in a way that made the Big Bang seem quite dull in comparison.

Slanderus: Absorbing Infinity. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

What we perceive as forever is hindered in part by our own mortality.

To be found Absorbing Infinity would be a lesson on how to live beyond your time, and the only true way in which to conquer Time is to produce something so passionate that it stands out on its own, something unexpectedly human, rich, vibrant, uniquely cool, and full of a life that transcends the name.

Tom Houston: Pushing The Pull Door. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Opportunities become skewed when we first step up to the building and the executives see us Pushing The Pull Door, the looks we receive confer on us that we could be seen out of our depth, that at best we cannot take instruction, at worst we cannot fulfil even the simplest of interactions; and yet we fail to notice there is a third option, we don’t take into consideration, that the poet, like the maverick, will somehow always find a way to still make that door open and let in the light where others will only find darkness.

Sex Pistols: The Original Records. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are more books written about books, and there are more stars in the heavens that we can physically ever count, but you can also be assured that only it seems Britain’s Sex Pistols can have more albums released than the band actually managed to record in their short lived, but ever-lasting, career.

Def Leppard: Diamond Star Halos. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Diamonds aren’t just a girl’s best friend, for those that appreciate the quality and commitment of a jewel created out of untold pressure, a rock of crystal pleasures and gems that sparkle and reflect the light caught in its star like quality, then arguably, decisively, Sheffield’s Def Leppard are on display as being a precious stone in a crown that is selective on the head on which it is worn.