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Larry McCray, Blues Without You. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You don’t know what you have misplaced until you find it again.

Those Blues keep on coming, those heart-breaking moments of love and unrestraint, the sentiment of passion, the honesty of the damaged, the truth behind the whispering guitar; the Blues keep on coming, and why, because deep down we all understand what it is to lose at love.

Walt Disco, Unlearning. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is time to embrace the act of Unlearning, to shed the skin that accompanies years and decades of imposed belief, and by doing so the weight of illusion that has dragged us down blind alleys, has had us almost corpse ridden in the act of rancid nostalgia, is discarded and cast off as simply as the scales that have been removed from the eyes of the informed and enlightened.

Unlearning behaviour is a right, a necessity of growth, and it must be achieved by sacrificing certain toxic traits of mindfulness, but never once letting go of the integrity you have developed.

Midwich Cuckoos, Death Or Glory. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If Dante can take the reader’s hand and lead them through a spiralling poetic narrative of figures inhabiting Hell, then the modern listener can certainly appreciate what it means for a youthful soul to attempt to atone for their sins and gain access to the other realm, and perhaps aid them in the melody-filled adventure of a lifetime.

Scenes From A Black And White Photograph: The Sandcastle.

A memory of childhood

sets with the sun on a desolate beach

as whispers of tall grass watch over

forgotten sands

where once heavy footsteps danced

around fires and final beats of

misheard laughter, song lyrics, and confused

buckets are tapped down and moulded

into shape of turrets and invisible guards

keeping the sea and swooping bitter seagull alike

at bay.

The sands now brushed clean

by March gales, April showers

and October winds.

We were never there, just a blink

The Remittance Men, Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons, the type of crowd we all find waiting for us in the back lit bars and the luminescence of shadows, they require payment, a settlement of funds with added interest accrued daily, only these Remittance Men are not in it to put the chains on the debtors, but they are pushing the audience to expand their appreciation of what truly flows, not pounds, shillings and pence, but art, expression, joy, acceptance, the allowance of Time to find the point of existence.

Decommissioned Forests, Industry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is nothing quite like the thrill, the trembling ecstasy, of finding a sound that is willing, determined, to shout into the void, a voice that comes from out of the dark, and like the figure on the pier, hands clasped to the ears, the swirling, layered canvas that is life catching the moment of delight, the solitude of pain, the agony of expression, the belief of true parity amongst equals.

The Brothers Gillespie, The Merciful Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Life is a magic, sometimes a beautiful and intensely passionate one that captivates the soul, occasionally one that is filled is the sorrow and grief of all that has passed, individually and collectively, and yet both must be experienced with grace, with meaning, and one that whether you walk the road alone, or in the company of others, must give way to mercy.

Clarice. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Rebecca Brands, Michael Culditz, Lucca De Oliveira, Nick Sandow, Devyn A. Tyler, Kal Penn, Jayne Atkinson, Maya McNair, Marnee Carpenter, Raoul Bhaneja, Derek Moran, Caitlin Robson, Douglas Smith, David Hewlett, K.C. Collins, Brian Bisson, Grace Lynn Kung, Caitlin Stryker, Simon Northwood, Will Conlon, Jen Richards.

The story is never complete.

What was once considered enough to wet the lips and stoke the appetite of the film lover and television watcher, has in recent years become a slot filler. The story has taken on a different direction with television leading the way, expanding a universe that perhaps had enough tension and pace in them to not require another tale being weaved into the original text.

In The Earth. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, John Hollingsworth, Mark Monroe.

Not so gentle are the sleepers in that quiet Earth, or so we might come to believe when we find that nature has turned her back on us and makes us reap all that we have sown, all that we have buried underground.

Aaron Skiles, Wreckage From The Fire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The moment you can praise another artist for a sculpture, for a composition, for any type of artistic endeavour you have brought to life, you shed ego, you take on an altogether different role, one that captures the soul arguably with greater depth than when you take the plaudits for yourself; shedding ego, is not about letting go of your pride or your work, but acknowledging that others have played a part, have assisted have influenced, have given you the freedom to be something more than just an ordinary Joe striking out, you are in fact the epitome of being human.