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Metalite: Expedition One. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The concept album is a treasure trove of thought that requires an intelligence and imagination that can arguably come from being completely engaged with the subject, from being open to treating music as you would an epic piece of theatre of a three-hour film, with absolute conviction and a faithful application and observance to concentration.

Project Smok: The Outset. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

From The Outset: A declaration of intent to hit the ground running, to display the virtue of good work that you intend to carry forward in to the world; and one that is more than a project, it is a calling of faith in your ability to be a version of yourself that cannot be denied, that sings, that plays harder than anything you have done before.

Malcolm MacWatt: Dark Harvest. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It can feel at times as if we are at a point in history that the walls of our existence are not only crumbling, but on the verge of falling, of crashing to the ground and causing long lasting tremors that will have effects on the long-term mental health future of all who walk in our wake.

Martyn Joseph: This Is What I Want To Say. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Place and voice are entities we never seem to find in our lifetimes, unless we are fortunate, unless we strive to unearth them, to dig around the edges of our existence and truly appreciate that all the while it was within reach; not so much as buried, as just waiting to be uncovered by our soul.

Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If a legend cannot start again and once more search deeply for the passion that propelled them to the top of their profession in a different era, in a different life, then we are doing a disservice to Time. For a legendary figure to aspire to a new beginning is one of enormity, it is satisfying, and it is humbling; and arguably they don’t come much humbler than the former Doors’ founding member Robby Kreiger.

What If?. Series Two. Animated Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Karen Gillan, Jude Law, Michael Rooker, Seth Green, Taika Waititi, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Douglas, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Kurt Russell, Chris Hemsworth, Laurance Fishburne, Devery Jacobs, Sebastian Stan, Atanwa Kani, Madeleine McGraw, Gene Farber, Jon Favreau, Kat Dennings, Cobie Smulders, Sam Rockwell, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Rachel House, Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Grillo, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Clancy Brown, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston, Paul Rudd, Stanley Tucci, Abraham Erskine, Mark Wingert, Lake Bell, Josh Keaton, Julianne Grossman, Fred Tatasciore, Mace Montgomery Miskel, Keri Tombazian, Jeff Bergman, Feodor Chin, Lauren Tom.

The Lazarus Project. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paapa Essiedu, Anjili Mohindra, Caroline Quentin, Tom Burke, Charly Clive, Rudi Dharmalingam, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, Lukas Loughran, Vinette Robinson, Priya-Rose Brookwell, Brian Gleeson, Elaine Tan, Sam Troughton, Zoe Telford, Colin Salmon, Safia Oakley-Green, Rosie Jones, Royce Pierreson, Nina Singh, Lorne MacFadyen, Paul Boche, James Atherton, Joseph Steyne, Steven H.Li, Amaree Ali, Amanda Drew, Stuart Whelan, Sadao Ueda.

Red Moon. Audio Drama Review. (Wireless Theatre Company).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Georgina Periam, Greg Pope, Joe Riley, Philip Bulcock, Richard Reed, Sarah Whitehouse, William Hope, Yasmin Honess-Dove, Stephen Critchlow.

Alternative history is a cornerstone of debate, the perpetual what if? of our time that allows us to consider a certain event or time in history and suggest a way in which it could have proceeded to a very different outcome for humankind. It is often quite a fun way in which to challenge your own knowledge of key moments and the rippling effect of Time as it creates and carves out a new future for humanity.

Murder Is Easy. (2023). Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Mathew Baynton, Morfydd Clark, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Wilton, Mark Bonnar, Tom Riley, Tamzin Outhwaite, Sinead Matthews, David Jonsson, Jon Pointing, Nimra Bucha, Kevin Mains, Veronika Klimenko, Joe Fagan, Phoebe Licorish.

Murder is easy, it’s the consequences that are difficult to digest, the murderer’s intent and reasoning challenging to the minds of those to whom such an act is deplorable, an unacceptable reminder that the human soul is capable of such finality.

Still Dusk: The Garden. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Caught between the times of light and dark is the place where matters of perception can be honed and altered with what could be considered a human magic, and if we manage to hold back time in such a way that when we stare into the contrast of separation, we can envisage a Still Dusk, a forever twilight that illuminates the Garden of imagination that sings to us in a harmony, that can add a sense of definition to the surroundings.