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The Big Deal: Electrified. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The connection is clear, The Big Deal have returned to the shores of the melodic fans hearts and stimulated the pulse just as the new year has barely even begun to feel its way into listener’s conscious.

The question might be posed as to whether the sound will just be as thrilling, the vocals soaring, or if the enthusiasm for the venture can be found within as to allude to lightning striking twice. The Serbian masters of harmony have not only returned, but blasted the ball out of the park with the assistance of a jet powered dynamic that truly understands the feeling and belief of being Electrified.

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(383 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Mark Blake: Dreams – The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A train of thought occurs when you start to see the connections that bind the fair percentage of the so-called supergroups and rock and roll celebrities that inhabited the scene between the late 60s and through to the final years of the 1980s; in the land of the excessive and the extreme, the opportunity to be bold, brash, and experimental was far more important than it is today, to be seen as someone rather than just anyone was for the soul and not for the likes and thumbs up of social media, and that albums could be created from the debauched dynamic as well as the ‘truth’ audiences were meant to attach themselves to in the era of peace, love, and understanding post Woodstock vibe.

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(569 words, 1 image, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

On Tick: Venus Girl. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

How we honour those that have been part of our lives but who leave it before we are ready to understand the reasons why, is often one that is simply recognised with a gesture of acknowledgement, a note of principal that is unafraid to show the respect due, of the influence that the person was able to install in your life; and when that happens to an artist, to a group that moulds music to the benefit of the heartstrings of the public, then the morning stars and the nighttime suns blaze all the brighter for it.

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(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Avatarium: Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are forever caught in a titanic tussle between the forces of evil, that of the morally right, and the judgement of our ancestors, it is almost as these other worldly entities have us trapped in a see-through prism, a triangular attack which places us in danger, the feeling of mortality disturbingly close, too close for comfort.

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

A.M.E.N. Argento. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For most fans of the genre the phrase ‘Doomy feel’ doesn’t quite with the narrative; it belongs more with a particular phase of Blues than it does with Jazz, and yet striding out wielding the sword of music as the protagonist in this earthy narrative comes the intimate and darkly held Argento from A.M.E.N.; a set of Avant-Garde studies in human existence that sends a delicious shiver down the spine as the listener is shown the line gossamer thread that separates the two genres as twins in a spectral march.

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(381 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Pet Needs: Kind Of Acoustic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Punk never died…it was far too clever to allow itself to be put in the firing line of any critical bullet, it was canny enough to evolve whilst for the majority of time not selling its soul for the price paid by Dorian Gray as he dismissed the painting in the attic as a mere extension of his self, instead as it evolved it proved more reliable than the Blues which had to wait for the start of the 21st Century to become relevant once again.

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

Based On A True Story. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, Tom Bateman, Liana Liberato, Priscilla Quintana, June Diane Raphael, Jessica St. Clair, Melissa Fumero, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Aisha Alfa, Sara Paxton, Aaron Stanton, Kellen Patino, Matthew Law, Joe Williamson, Kingston Rumi Southwick, Briana Cuoco, Stephanie Allynne, Rory Scovel.

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(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Landfall: Wide Open Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We don’t have to confine ourselves to the narrow viewpoint, we do so out of comfort, out of dedication and love to what we already understand, we look forward to tramping the same old streets in shoes well worn just because to imagine another world out there that we can reflect in the Wide Open Sky would mean alternating our mindset, embracing the new, and seeing all along that the benefit we believed in sticking to our in built course was actually closing in on us and becoming a jail cell of time.

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(436 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories. The Adventure of The Speckled Band. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Hugh Bonneville.

One of Sherlock Holmes finest adventures, and a particular favourite of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of The Speckled Band is always worthy of adaption; its use of sleight of hand and its ability to blend into the gothic marks out in the realm of stories such as The Hound of the Baskervilles, or even the sense of inevitable of doom as found in The Final Solution, as one of grandness and the science behind deduction firmly established.

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

White Lies. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Natalie Dormer, Brendon Daniels, Daniel Schultz, Morgan Santo, Clayton Evertson, Langley Kirkwood, Kiroshan Naidoo, Daniel Janks, Sunny Yoon, Daniah De Villiers, Robert Hobbs, Athenkosi Mfamela, Katlego Lebogang, Ivan Abrahams, Roxanne Prentice, Caely-Jo Levy, Robert Hobbs.

Sex and death go hand in hand, it is a staple of fiction within the crime genre, and in real life when the news reports on the various murders that chastise and upset the nation’s sensibilities, that shock and rightly disgust the morality of the natural world.

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