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Ledley: Ledley. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Originality is the cornerstone of art, it requires oxygen, it expects progression, and it obliges when an idea comes to mind, one perhaps from left field as inspiration strikes, and as Ledley take to the avant-garde electronic self-titled debut, what transpires is an album that defies expectation and probability.

The album, Ledley, sees Ralph Clarkson, Chris Williams, and Riann Vosloo pay tribute to the Tottenham Hotspur’s player Ledley King and in the electronica improvisation the adventurous nature of the piece is intrinsic to the motion of unexpected subject matter given prominence and dutiful obligation.

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(391 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Milton Hide: Bungaroosh. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The temperature rose, the heat that has been kept constant has found the listener almost agog with anticipation of what the pairing behind the hugely inspiring Milton Hide could magic up next, and with expected enchantment and a sizeable nod to the composite nature of building that can be found on the Sussex coast, Bungaroosh is a true response to the world’s call for highly original music, and one that traverses genres with accomplishment and charm.

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(389 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Voice of the Beehive: Honey Lingers. 2025 Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst the abundance of reissues continues to reintroduce music fans to periods that they may have not had the privilege of accessing due to their age at the time of recording, the extended cuts giving fans chills of excitement as they feel the nostalgia rippling across every sinew and mouth watering longing they might display, some reissues and extensive mixes become the reveal of the fabled light that shone brightly in the clubs that once frequented the land, the memory of pop’s hidden gems that was briefly glimpsed in the charts, and some, such as The Voice of the Beehive’s Honey Lingers, that captured the zeitgeist in the summer of 1991.

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(540 words, 1 image, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Waiting For Waiting For Godot. Audio Play Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Adrian Edmondson, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Simon Callow, Christopher Ryan, Madeleine Paulson.

In many ways Waiting For Waiting For Godot is the play that Adrian Edmondson was born to write; full of pathos, a piece of art from Samuel Beckett that has had the actor/writer/comedian enthralled and obsessed since he was a young man.

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

Moorgate: Inside/Outside. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jonathan Aris, Lorne MacFadyen, Lizzy Watts, Tyger Drew-Honey, Matt Addis, Joanna Brooks, Jessica Dennis, Paul Panting, Alistair McGowan, Barkha Bahar.

National tragedies have a habit of slowly fading from the memory over time, not least of all because those directly involved in the disaster will themselves succumb to the passing of time, but it is because of nature; we as citizens can carry placards in anger, we can weep in unison at the senselessness of the catastrophe, we can rage and demand tougher actions to keep people safe, and we will seek retribution against the one person we might hold responsible…even if it defined to have been caused by simple misfortune, or the most unfortunate of mistakes.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Rainy Day Confessions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Do we lay in the sun and think of the times we desperately wanted to relieve our conscious, to absolve the sins of our creation, or do we wait for the moments in which the mood depends on melancholy, when we wish to match the weather’s appearance by admitting to the faults in our souls and the declarations of our heart? An assertion on a grassy patch of ground as the temperature rises and the sun lays directly overhead, or the Rainy Day Confessions that frame time with a sizeable revelation.

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(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham: Big Blue Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Artists that can, and willingly do so, change the trajectory of their sound in one jaw dropping moment, are to be treasured, and whilst some will be confounded from the alteration of direction from the Progressive to the raw emotion that Blues conveys, in Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham’s brand new release, Big Blue Sky, the sense of open appreciation is as expansive as the sound of the handsome vocals, and the drama that such an unobstructed view can maintain, is to be heralded and understood for the ferocity that can come bursting out of nature’s panoramic landscape in one fleeting second.

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(429 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Sky A: Labyrinths. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Art creates art. A person can write a short story, present it to a small gathering of friends one evening, and within a few months one of the attendees could have written a novel based on the emotion and meaning of the offering gifted as a moment of light entertainment.

It is a direct response to the way the mind works, finding meaning and direction in the Labyrinths of the mind, the sparks of neurons connecting that lead us away from the gruesome fear of the Minotaur, and instead count the threads of the strings that lead to freedom of thought and expanded art.

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(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Sykofant: Red Sun. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Many are drawn to the music created by Progressive Rock bands because it boldly expands on the narrative that comes with life; the pop song has its place with its repeated chorus and catchy delivery and momentary diversion, and even rock itself plays a part in musical appreciation However, the art of the Progressive movement is in its ability to weave with patience a world in which fiction expands far beyond the short structure and deliver an insight into the human ability to bring forth a lengthy discourse of virtuosity and beauty to the lives of the everyday and the people caught by the chronicles and storylines conceived.

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(328 words, 1 image, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Bob Bradshaw: Live In Boston. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To step out of your usual routine is to explore a world of possibilities, it is to live rather that exist, and when we have the belief within our souls that along the unpredicted route we may find an adaption to our song, that our way of thought once dominated by habitual standards, can blossom further and with great effect on those we seek to entertain and inspire.

Bob Bradshaw: Live In Boston. Album Review. full post

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