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Katie Henry: Get Goin’. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The point of momentum is that it must be given a reason to continue, and lest inertia or entropy emerge and eat away at the beauty of the energy provided, like rust on a steel heart, it must not only Get Goin’, but it must also be prepared to avoid the effects of Time that suggests that the end is a welcome release.

After The Flood. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, Jonas Armstrong, Lorraine Ashbourne, Philip Glenister, Daniel Betts, Arthur McBain, Tripti Tripuraneni, Jaqueline Boatswain, James Quinn, Heider Ali, Maui Connock, Anita Adam Gabey, Nicholas Gleaves, Steve Cooper, Jeanette Percival, George Bukhari, Ray Castleton, Sara Beasley, Jake Whitehurst.

The build-up in tension that comes from a promise of a modern-day disaster requires to always be delivered. Failure to underline and provide the ending to which many have expected, replacing it with a noting more than a wishy-washy explanation is detrimental to the time and care placed before the viewer, and leaves a taste in the mouth that is overall, unforgiveable.

Vanessa Peters: Flying On Instruments. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The clouds and storms of late have been moody, mean, and arguably fierce beyond compare, they have blocked our collective sight from seeing the land of safety and creativity from the air; and all we have been able to witness is the constant tsunami as it circles the world with terrifying speed.

Flying On Instruments alone does not always mean we have navigated from above with a greater precision than those who steer ships through the storm, but it can often be the truth that those that do might get to see and feel the warmth of the sun earlier and the land of opportunity and redemption with greater clarity.

Dennis Van Aarssen And Jeff Franzel: Just Call It Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We Just Call It Love, and for some it may be a momentary lapse of reason in their day-to-day existence, a blip that starts to consume their being, that takes their brain and soul on a journey together which often defies reason; right until it makes sense, and then the harmony observed is crucial to the heart’s own intentions of feeling alive.

Art in any form is love, and no matter how you may find your own way to have your heartbeat faster, there is a part reserved for the classic of another’s tune to ignite a fire in your body that you may learn you should never have ignored.

Neil Campbell: The Smoky God. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is uncommon to find yourself that struck by beauty that for a while it is impossible to convey exactly what you have witnessed. The temptation to flourish on the immediate arguably detrimental to the truth of your feelings, and it must be avoided at all costs lest your own quality fade.

Niall McCabe: Rituals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Everyday, whether we are conscious of it or not, we adhere to Rituals, to established practices or long-term traditions that have built up over time; to leave home by a certain time to avoid traffic, to listen to that last favoured song on the radio till its finale so that you ensure a good day, or even wearing a certain item of clothing, a colour that guarantees your endeavour is a success; we all do something that we have come to depend upon that gives our life a structure, a determination, a resolve that comes from deep within us and which materialises in the world around us.

In Autumn: What’s Done Is Done. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you want blood, if you want uncontained rage, and if on top of that you want to see aggression of sound succeed, then in the period of autumn’s splendour shall you discover it; all you have to remember that the emotions uncovered are spectacular, that the beat of the Italian embrace of dark doom and ear-splitting destruction is what’s left when What’s Done Is Done and given the freedom to stomp all over the remains of the naysayers and the terminally dull.

Finders Keepers. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Morrissey, James Buckley, Faye Ripley, Jessica Rhodes, Brendan Coyle, Nimmi Harasgama, Shane Attwooll, Quentin Lee, Nick Harris, Wayne Foskett, Arthur Campbell, Tara Lee, Thom Jackson-Wood, Herbert Forthuber, Winston Elias, Jordan Long, Rakhee Thakrar, Steve Aldis, Manoj Anand, Bobby Bedi, Kas Meghani, Ace Bhatti, Robert Forknall, Ben Warwick, Tracey Ann Wood, Stephen McDade, Cain Aiden.

There are hobbies that are considered to be worthy of ridicule by the callous that they have become synonymous with a certain tag of being driven by the dull and the singular man.

Magnum: Here Comes The Rain. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rarely are we presented with a moment in time in which we grieve as an artist leaves us just as their art is released into the world; it feels seismic, a moment the fan remembers for all time.

To focus on Magnum’s Here Comes The Rain without acknowledgement or understanding of the sense of loss to rock music and the band as the fiercely upsetting news of the passing of the phenomenal Tony Clarkin on the eve of what will be considered in time as perhaps a final studio hurrah, one that when delved into deeply finds the band, as always fronted the extraordinary voice of Bob Catley, arguably placing Time at the very forefront of their release.

Little Man Tate: Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a modern phrase designed to kick start our physical appetite for change, a symbolic gesture of how at some point in our development we reach a crossroads, a place where we are given no choice, no alternative but to move forward and take a greater degree of responsibility for the events that surround us, and have it shown to us as though it is a carnival of experience that we our glad to accept, but which in truth is a double edged sword, a reminder of a side of adult hood we are never truly prepared for.