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American Rust. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jeff Daniels, Maura Tierney, David Alvarez, Bill Camp, Julia Mayorga, Alex Neustaedter, Mark Pellegrino, Rob Yang, Williams Apps, Emily Davis, Dallas Roberts, Namir Smallwood, Zenzi Williams, Jim True-Frost, Jon Collin Barclay, Caitlin Houlahan, Gordon Clapp, Clea Lewis, Federico Rodriguez, Bill Laing, Guy Boyd, Nicole Chanel Williams, Brittany Bellizeare, Emily Donahoe, Joanne Tucker, Riley Baron, Caitlin Cavannaugh, Jeremy Denzlinger, Brendan Burke, Rick Dutrow.

The United States of America was built on foundations that are arguably now struggling to hold up the overburdened and often shoddy structures that have come to dominate its landscape.

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(580 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Eric Gales, Crown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A personal truth revealed is a Crown restored, and a series of introspective declarations are the jewels that sit atop and give that crown its definition, its shape, the depth of feeling, not for atonement, but of apology to the soul; for burdened is the head that wears the crown, and in honesty the feeling of integrity relieves the pain upon the wearer, the possessor of the polished metal garland is redeemed, and the soul is lightened.

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(585 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Helen Love, This Is My World. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

How long we must all wonder what it would it feel like to scream from the rooftops that This Is My World, that the decisions are mine, the simple exercise of traversing the land and not being tied by convention, by outdated dogma, of being led to our graves by those who have their own agenda, one in which seeks to control the lives of all that is within their sphere of direction.

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(553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Wille & The Bandits, When The World Stood Still. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There will be arguments in the years, even decades, ahead on how we observe the passing of time that history has placed us in, as 2020 rolls in 2022 and perhaps beyond for an indefinite period of time, of how we should commemorate, even lay to rest the moment When The World Stood Still.

Wille & The Bandits, When The World Stood Still. Album Review. full post

(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Kate MacLeod, Uranium Maiden. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Two sides of the same coin, both coming up heads and with wide brimmed smiles of comfort and insight radiating from in between the edges of American Folk; this is the place where a child of the atomic age rubs shoulders with the influence and study of far and wide culture, and the result is one of harmonious interaction and pleasing delivery, a significant spectrum of colour in a world that can at times find the coin landing edgeways on and confusing all who witness it.

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(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Lordi, Humanimals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The class just keeps flowing and surging through the releases under the extensive and noble effort that surrounds Finnish rockers Lordi and their seven series boxset Lordiversity; and three albums in the outstanding Humanimals takes its bow at the front of the pack and blows any thought of stagnation in the new year completely and utterly away.

Such is the strength of the songs that have burst forth that it can be seen as prophetic, almost visionary that it has taken such a band to do what others have failed to do in the past, continually deliver high drama, interest, and persuasion where others have faltered in their hunt for consistency over several albums in a short space of time.

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

Bobby Allison And Gerry Spehar, Delta Man. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The word retrospective should always bring joy to the ears of the music lover. By its very existence it sounds more alluring, grander, more encompassing than the idea of a ‘greatest hits’ or the notion of a ‘best of’, for in its design it is surely meant to inform the listener of the totality of the music on offer rather than being picked as a crowd pleaser, an album which is designed to be in the charts rather than educating the intrigued with an entire catalogue of work.

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

Cruzados, She’s Automatic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

How do we return to a starting point without it seeming as though we have come back to pay a debt or resume an acquaintance, the sure-fire way is to perhaps agree that unfinished business is a part of life, that it is not so much of a return, as an exercise in continuation, the added extra bonus chapter to a much loved and admired novel that no one was expecting!

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(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Eve Of The Daleks. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Aisling Bea, Adjani Salmon, Pauline McLynn, Nicholas Briggs, Jonny Dixon, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Jon Davey.

A plan conceived when the clock is against you is one that will arguably make the old heart beat that little bit faster, and therefore be more memorable, than anything that is carefully and meticulously drawn up over the space of weeks, maybe months, and even years.

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(598 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Red Blood Shoes, Ghosts On Tape. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In A Town Called Nothing the Ghosts On Tape are worth their weight in gold, for in exposing the mystery that walks two worlds, the corporeal and the as yet unknown, we could arguably find harmony, we would certainly encounter spirit, and despite others believing there is some kind of morbid interest, a death hag stance in which the sound of the beyond interests us more than the joy of the living, it is that harmony of both worlds that inspires us to create art that encompasses both states of humanity.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)