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Katarina Pejak, Roads That Cross. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are many rivers to navigate but the road is the one that perhaps gives a greater sense of broken-down romance, the ambling or the raging waterway will still be surrounded by the deft touch of nature on either side of the steep banks, but the highway holds dark secrets, many intersections that criss-cross, the one dirt track of a decision that leads inevitably  to heartbreak and nightmares. The unavoidable meetings with the one who calls the toll; all in all the river of life is a walk in the park compared to those who don’t heed the emotional warnings of the Roads That Cross our path.

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(408 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Electric Mary, Mother. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Quite often in life the recommendations of others are to be taken with even the smallest pinch of salt, the sense of different taste is to be acknowledged, recognised, celebrated for all it is worth, and yet it must still be admitted. The only words of wisdom that you should ever trust apart from your own, is that of the one you call Mother, be it a physical person who has steered you right each time, or that of the symbolic, the one beneath our feet and the one that is all around, the icon of Mother Nature, the one that gives the planet the electric character of renewal and rebirth.

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(410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Aaron Buchanan And The Cult Classics, The Man With Stars On His Knees. Special Edition, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never feel the pangs of jealousy as you find yourself spying on those who look to the heavens with glee on their faces, they may be dreaming of touching the stars, but they never imagine themselves being The Man With Stars On His Knees, they see the glory available to them, but they cannot fathom that beyond that there is the question of care, that we are part of a Universe and as such are required to give all that we can to see what we love, grow.

Aaron Buchanan And The Cult Classics, The Man With Stars On His Knees. Special Edition, Album Review. full post

(449 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Gary Innes, Imminent. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Those who only witness life as if being shown the world through the short peek of an ajar door have no concept that somewhere in the vicinity will be a series of open windows, curtains drawn back, the welcoming wave of visitors and other on lookers already enjoying the fact they have been privileged to see into that realm at that time.

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(420 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett, At The Edge Of Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

At The Edge Of Light there is reason and there is the shadow, the light focusing on what gives us imagination and purpose, the shadows hiding for now the imperative of intention, the judgement of others in which the continuous rock face of their lies, their superficial engagement with our own lives, is lit up by the spark of realisation that we have to conquer the fear of the unknown first and then see the cliff and the rock face for what it is, the higher ground, the conviction of your own journey.

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

The Cardigans, Super Extra Gravity. Vinyl Album Re-issue Review. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is when the unknown becomes clear that we can feel like we have lost a friend, the moment may take months, years even, before the realisation kicks in that an artist or group may never take to the hunting ground of the studio again, and what you have left is to be cherished, to be seen as the reminder of a relationship that once was.

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(561 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Cardigans, Life. Vinyl Album Re-issue. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The 1990s are as far away now as the late 60s and early 70s were when that insistent decade began, a decade that was bookended by the gesture of hope as the aftermath of the Berlin Wall finally came tumbling down just a few short months before, and the finality of the party realised as the insanity of the Y2K bug bore down like a spectre, driving everybody to distraction and chaos.

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(654 words, 1 image, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Kim Richards, Leaves That Fly. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We will crane our necks and look skyward with interest when a plane flies overhead, our imaginations, perhaps our in-built jealousies, will take over and wonder what it is like at that moment, to be so high, to witness the world changing rapidly from land to sailing the skies over vast oceans, and where those people are going to, what interesting events they will be part of, far from this distant shore. We will do this automatically and without concern, the moment fleeting and until the next plane goes over our heads, we will just lose interest in what takes to the air.

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

No Kids, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nir Paldi, George Mann.

If you stop and think about it, the chances are you will talk yourself out of almost anything that your heart desires, the mind and the soul will argue, the body will become a wreck and the fallout of this will have serious repercussions on the relationship of all those you love and hold dear.

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

Vishten, Horizons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 7.5/10

What we envisage, what we dream of, is quite often so far hidden in the Horizons that we can barely see it as our own truth, it is covered only in a glorious tempting haze and one that is for the vast majority of time, forever out of reach. It is the act of forever hope that we that we keep striding towards, that we reach out to because we are cursed with both reason and imagination and one that is starkly shown as the plucked flower of memory when we succeed or fall in our attempt to go beyond the prospect to which our life was set.

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