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The Peaness, World Full Of Worry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The understanding of someone’s self-loathing is arguably often too complex to get to grips with, especially in a place where the often overbearingly optimistic tend to reside. A concern, a World Full Of Worry in a minefield of burden populated by those without disquiet in their minds, for those that live in comfort of mental health it is a small sentence but one that traps the load ever tither on those who carry the cares of others on their shoulders.

The Ipcress File. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton, Tom Hollander, Ashley Thomas, Paul Higgins, David Dencik, Joshua James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Anastasia Hille, Brian Ferguson, Matthew Steer, Nora-Jane Noone, Corey Johnson, Ifran Shamji, Anna Geislerová, Paul Bazely, Marko Braic, Tamla Kari, Mark Quartley, Alexandria Moen, Ben Turner, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Anna Schumacher, Gaby French, Shireen Farkhoy, Nigel Hastings, Therese Bradley, Claire Cox, Chris Lew Kum Hoi.

The Canny Band. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Sometimes in life you cannot but help hold your breath, you don’t realise you are doing it, you just stand in awe at what is unfolding in front of you and the reflex action, that momentary last inhale, takes care of all the rest; only at the last second do you find the release and marvel at how stunned, how appreciative of the moment you have been.

Paul Iwan, Present. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you are feeling comfortable in all that you do, it could be argued that you are doing it wrong; especially when it comes to art and expression.

Creation should never be easy, it should never be without memory, without anxiety, it has to be an operation that it is filled with tense words, feelings, emotions, it must be demanding, it has to be physically commanding on both the heart and the soul; creation requires sacrifice, and that noble gesture must be Present at all times for the one who is on the other end of it so they too can feel the pain, the delivery, and the justice of what the artist speaks of in their truth.

Peggy James, Isn’t Anybody Coming? Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How we respond to world events is not just a matter for the individual, it is the collective whole that needs to come together and fight the evil that lives within the hearts of political psychopaths and desperate antisocial deviance; the measure of refusing to aid another in their hour of need, whether it is those who suffer primarily or by association, the mothers, the loved ones, the children caught between not understanding and feeling the rage of despair for the first time, this is how we are judged, how we are assessed, and pronounced guilty if we sit back and do nothing when the cry goes out “Isn’t Anybody Coming?”

Tiny Dinosaur, Songs For The Mass Extinction Event. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The playlist would be long, would court controversy, and not everybody would get their say, let alone their favourite musical number played, but when it comes to the Songs For The Mass Extinction Event the one thing you can be sure of is that its diversity and mix of the unique and playful eccentricity will be admired by many. Even as we march headlong into the new geological epoch, the thoughts of how we look the process in the face and sing along to our favourite songs will be one of nagging superiority at the back of the mind.

Graeme Armstrong, You Are Free. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The act of being free is a double-edged sword, the dream of being unbound and unattached to every draconian rule and instruction can seem like a dream come true, but for some the idea, the practise, of being unanswerable to ‘The Man’ can cause panic, alarm, and fear, for in the process of having been chained to a perception of structure, they can no longer imagine the bliss of being anything but servants to the masters and their will.

A J Reid: The Horseman’s Dream. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It was once argued that the future we could foresee, could never actually happen; that the dystopia was all the dream of the anarchist, the radical over thinker, or the doom-monger, the ones who delight in declaring bad news in the hope that they will be seen as bearers of prophecy when their predictions come to bear fruit.

The future is now, and we have paid for our ego, our belief, the hope, that the world will function as it always has, that humanity’s demands have not tipped the balance of a fragile entity and sent it on a collision course with our lives, with our very existence.

Allehackbar, In Your Face. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The desire to prove the doubter wrong is an emotion that we must continue to nurture. Too often we have it unrestrainedly rammed down our throat that we cannot do something, that others have done it before so why must we do exactly the same, that we are only embarrassing ourselves, and that we shall surely fail in our endeavour; we must persist in proving people wrong, even if comes with alienating them, if it makes them angry…especially of it makes them outraged and indignant with rage.

Don’t Breathe 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * *

Cast: Stephen Lang, Madelyn Grace, Brendan Sexton III, Adam Young, Rocci Williams, Christian Zagia, Bobby Schofield, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Stephanie Arcila, Diaana Babnicova, Sofija Stojanovic, Steffan Rhodri, Miodrag Cvetkovic, Ibrahim Ishaq, Eydel Francisco Balbuena, Ron Rogell.

An argument persists that a surprising cinematic hit should at times understand that it should remain a solo outing. This reasonable contention does not always follow suit, the film lover perhaps only has to think of the Saw franchise to know how decent a series can be when its own universe and mythos is expanded, but on the whole a decently produced film with one particular dynamic should by all means refrain from ever thinking of creating cinematic offspring.