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Supergirl: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, Katie McGrath, Odette Annable, Chris Wood, David Harewood, Erica Durance, Emma Tremblay, Adrian Pasdar, Andrea Brooks, Carl Lumbly, Chad Lowe, Amy Jackson, Jesse Rath, Anjali Jay, Floriana Lima, Helen Slater, Betty Buckley, Curtis Lum, Brit Morgan, Brenda Strong, Laurie Metcalf.

A fantasy/superhero series that doesn’t acknowledge its dark side is not being honest to its fans, or the graphic novels that inspired the leap to the cinema/television medium.

Supergirl: Series Three. Television Review. full post

(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Bradford, Bright Hours. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

All that may seem lost, upon reflection in re-discovery, leads to more questions that need answering in the Bright Hours afforded the fan and the music devotee.

If ever there was a case to doubt the sense of the music marketing world then Lancashire’s Bradford surely fits the bill, and like The Small Faces in the 60s, Bradford can quite honestly be regarded as one of the biggest under-rated by society groups to have been lauded by the minority ever.

Bradford, Bright Hours. Album Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Sickwalt, Shove N’ Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

That first experience is always regarded as the most satisfying, the initial taste that dances on the tongue, which rages in heat, which is delicate to savour like chocolate, this is moment that your senses have been crying out for, and when you understand that the thousands of hours that have gone into chasing that primary encounter, that engagement or confrontation with the beast of decadence, then you know it is all worth the wait for the sensual and the aggressive to arrive and surround you at the same time.

Sickwalt, Shove N’ Love. Album Review. full post

(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Grant Nesmith, Dreams Of The Coast. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For those locked inland, the coast is a place where dreams of the journey can start, where the vision harboured over by the romantic heart can begin. The coast is the start of the blue horizon, what lays beyond is all in the mind until the first step onto the ship of realisation, and the seas of adventure and the search for consciousness.

Grant Nesmith, Dreams Of The Coast. Album Review. full post

(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

The Serpent. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Mathilde Warnier, Gregoire Isvarine, Tim McInnerny, Amesh Edireweera, Asasiri Kulthanan, William Brand, Chotika Sintuboonkul, Kenneth Won, Fabien Frankel, Adam Rothenberg, Ilker Kaleli, Chicha Amatayakul, Ellie de Lange, Armand Rosbak, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Stacy Martin, Alice Englert.

The Serpent. Television Review. full post

(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Rakes & Misfits. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What is often promised falls short in delivery, and it is only to the fault of expectation that we see this tumble from the high we envisioned, that we took for granted that the initial meeting with the outcast and the individual would be anything more than a one-night stand in the company of the eccentric and the unconventional.

Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Rakes & Misfits. Album Review. full post

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

Lake Of Tears, Ominous. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can believe that you can hide from the shadows and the darkness all you like, but in the end it becomes easier, less exhausting to admit that being prepared for the ill-omens and the creatures that carry menace and foreboding evil is something to be proud of, that the very threat others see you that they believe is being mired in misery and gloom, is in actual fact a shield, a weapon to carry into the attack on those who see the world through lies, falseness and the rose-tinted glasses of ignorance; Ominous belief perhaps, but one that is immersed entirely and with respect to the craft in the absolute and real. 

Lake Of Tears, Ominous. Album Review. full post

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

Oka Vanga, Oka Vanga. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The threads of success and completion are so tightly stretched that it only takes a sharp tug and the whole process, the experience, can come lose, can snap before it has even had time to be recognised for what it is, and in the same way that individual prowess can be lost when Time and nature conspire against us, so to do the threads of success suffer under the same strain.

Oka Vanga, Oka Vanga. Album Review. full post

(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Aerial East, Try Harder. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Isolation and alienation are not considered happy bedfellows, but they can be found to be often related via mutual understanding when one person suffers and agonises over pain and virtue in equal hostile measure.

Quite often, the more you push against the two despairing emotions, the harder it is to see yourself as free from the effects and damage they inflict upon you, the separation of spirit and soul they exact, like badly informed justice and deliverance, the casualty and the wounded party often seek to further entrench themselves into the position where Try Harder becomes a verbal punishment designed by those with little empathy and care of understanding.

Aerial East, Try Harder. Album Review. full post

(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Ian David Green, Songs Of The Sea. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It doesn’t take a sailor or a mythical creature who guides many a doomed soul to the jagged, unforgiving rocks, to sings Songs Of The Sea, for those waves that either gently lap at the shore and thrill sun bathers as they bathe their sand crusted feet, or the kind that turn rogue or episodic which can crash into the side of a cliff with devastating results, at the end of the day still produce the same effect, the erosion of the land with the help of time.

Ian David Green, Songs Of The Sea. Album Review. full post

(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)