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Mike Ryan: The Space Where You Should Be. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Space Where You Should Be is often filled with the ghosts of others who are determined to gatekeep success and enlightenment as a preserve of the envious and resentful, those who see your power or even your potential and focus only on keeping you out lest you displace their coveted position in people’s hearts and minds.

Mike Ryan’s place is assured through the tenacity of progression and the refusal to bow to the dogmas of war and musical dramas of another’s plectrum and strings, and as the haunting and cool procession of his brand new album, The Space Where You Should Be, settles on the dust of the past and raises its own place where heavenly sounds can be heard.

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(348 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Michael Troughton: Patrick Troughton: The Biography (Anniversary Edition: 2015). Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For many Patrick Troughton will always be remembered as the second actor to take up the role of the second incarnation of The Doctor from the long running British science fiction serial, Doctor Who, for a multitude he will be fondly thought of as Father Brennan, the man who warned Gregory Peck’s Robert Thorn that his son, Damien was the Antichrist in The Omen, and a whole host, an absolute embarrassment of riches of roles he was able to portray with a searing honesty in television, film, theatre, and radio; but to Michael Troughton, himself an actor of excellent repute, he was always first and foremost, a dad.

Michael Troughton: Patrick Troughton: The Biography (Anniversary Edition: 2015). Book Review. full post

(597 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

John Jenkins: Restless Hearts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

These Restless Hearts of ours are in eager need of comfort, they expect reassurance from love and the meaning of art as it eases those emotional shocks and confusions of loss, and faith. The commotions of navigating the errant nature of Time as it bypasses us, streaks by in the blink of an eye, and the disturbances of love that cause the organ at the very centre of our being to wobble and become distressed at times when we require stability and firmness of spirit.

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(377 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Beautiful Ugly: Trance Portals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Whilst we may crave for the unique lyric that catches our attention, that one line that wants us to embrace its message and sing its virtue out loud as if it has become a mantra, a modern hymn of rejoice or sorrow filled chant that digs deep into the art of melancholy, it is to the building block of the song, of the album, that allows the listener’s imagination to be encouraged, to be stimulated by the virtue of the complete instrumental curated for maximum thought and confident rhythm of life.

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Beautiful Ugly: Trance Portals. Album Review. full post

(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Phantomy: From The Wild. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

From The Wild, never from peace, do the offerings of ingenuity flourish. It almost feels innate to humanity’s progression that in throws of chaos we find ways to exert influence, muscle, and persuasion to pour our very being into sharp focus; and as Finnish newcomers Phantomy aptly show in their debut release, From The Wild, the lessons forged in heat are the ones that capture the raw intensity of our soul and wilful determination to be heard.

Phantomy: From The Wild. Album Review. full post

(348 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Various Writers: Doctor Who Target Storybook (2025). Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Our lives are short, and the adventures we may face few and far between, and even if we heed the call to embrace the possibility of writing the details of even a small skirmish, do we have the honest intention to admit that the moment adds clarity to our existence, or do we brush it under the carpet as if nothing monumental took place, ignoring the prelude to an even greater journey, then we deserve nothing more than short trip, an exercise in futility as we breathe our last breathes with regret.

Various Writers: Doctor Who Target Storybook (2025). Book Review. full post

(492 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Salem’s Lot (2024). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Lewis Pullman, Mackenzie Leigh, Jordan Preston Carter, Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp, John Benjamin Hickey, Nicholas Crovetti, Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk, Alexander Ward, Danielle Perry, Debra Christofferson, William Sadler, Timothy John Smith, Mike Kaz, Cade Woodward, Joseph Marrella, Declan Lemerande, Oliver Dauberman, Rebecca Gibel, James Milord, Fedna Jacquet, Marilyn Busch, Michelle Steven Costello, Avery Bederman, Derek Mears, Jim Patton, Kellan Rhude, Sage Rudnick, Anna Rizzo, Celeste Oliva, Fred Robbins.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Salem. Television Drama Series. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Janet Montgomery, Shane West, Seth Gabel, Tamzin Merchant, Ashley Madekwe, Elise Eberle, Iddo Goldberg, Oliver Bell, Joe Doyle, Jeremy Crutchley, Lucy Lawless, Xander Berkeley, Michael P. Gardner, Michael Mulheren, Desiree Page, John R. Bennett II, Samantha Hanratty, Azure Parsons, Stephen Lang, Lara Grice, Samuel Roukin, Thomas Francis Murphy, Mary Katherine O’Donnell, Stuart Townsend, Christopher Berry, Clint James, Emma Claire Wynn, Marilyn Manson, Benjamin Mouton.

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(671 words, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

Max Rael: The Enemy Is Us. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We lose faith in ourselves quicker than we do others, at times we can look at ourselves in the mirror and see the face of the one that holds us back, whose existence can mock us without reproach, and we feel the agency of anger and the motivation of attack from that which comes from within because we realise with certainty that The Enemy Is Us, and it frightens us, it terrifies us, and yet can create through the tension such art that it acts as a salve, as a calming liniment of appeasement. 

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(519 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Kemp Harris: The America Chronicles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For many different reasons we may ask of ourselves what has become of the America we loved, the post war influence on modern culture that caught the likes of Generation X in its opportunity and the promise of freedom from the wasted youth and lost home grown government blandness, or even a haven for the Millennial seeking inspiration in social issues and the recent of music from the land of the neo-punk and new goth standards, all would feel entitles to ask what has become of America.

Kemp Harris: The America Chronicles. Album Review. full post

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