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Today Was Yesterday. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be unafraid to undertake an adventure, to explore beyond what is expected by a society, is to understand that all you have achieved so far life in your time on the spinning planet we call home has been nothing; for if Today Was Yesterday then tomorrow is what we must raise ambition for in the present and its victory.

The debut self-titled studio album from Today Was Yesterday is one of spectacle and illumination, it holds a duo of musically intoxicating guest appearances that make the hair stand on end and a lump in the throat quiver with emotional resonance.

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(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Argylle. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Henry Cavill, John Cena, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’ Hara, Dua Lipa, Samuel L. Jackson, Richard E. Grant, Ariana DeBose, Jason Fuchs, Tomás Paredes, Sofia Boutella, Jing Lusi, Tomiwa Edun, Rob Delaney, Stanley Morgan, Louis Partridge, Ben Daniels.

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(483 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

UFO: Lights Out (2024 Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Lights Out, revel in the sound that the darkness brings to your door and the senses, for there is a renewal of friendship and love ready to explode in your heart as UFO release the latest reaffirmation of metal history as their back catalogue receives the 180 gram and extended offering to a new generation of listeners and appeases those who have kept a lit vigil of their prowess from the start.

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(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Gentle Giant: The Missing Piece (Steven Wilson Remix). 2024 Re-issue Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The catalyst for change does not always present itself with such acuteness as the rise in the popularity of a music genre which came to define a short-lived era but which would come to have huge repercussions to larger scales of music, to a genre that caught the attention of those with more than a simple hook in their minds to please.

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(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Dust Bolt: Sound & Fury. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Era’s end, they have to, unless the sound of the universe you are searching for is the crippling regret of entropy and the slow hand clap of performance that sneaks into the set from decay.

It is though what we replace an era with that gives us hope of continuance, of making sure that after the grief of universal upheaval and loss, that we can rebuild in a form that thrills us, guides us, makes us rage and shake our fists at the sky as it falls around us, and makes us want to double down on the love we feel for the world, our home, our reason to be.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

10cc: 20 Years – 1972-1992. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To examine a line from a poem and believe that you can find a meaning to a full life can be misleading, it may offer insight to a moment, to an instant where the writer was overwhelmed by an emotion, but in regards to explaining an entire career, to sit there and insist that a single line can explain everything away, is best preserved in the role of academia and by those to whom can make a living from deciphering a message from a single line of text.

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(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Thunder: Live At Islington. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you are one of the fortunate ones to have witnessed Thunder strike home on stage and whip the crowd into a majestic rock frenzy, one of thought as well as deed, then you just immediately understand that they are rightly lauded as one of Britain’s finest rock acts of the last forty years, and one to whom the public cannot allow to pass by into the shadows without being acknowledged as the ones to host a party, the party of a lifetime.

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

Thunder: Live At Leeds. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For the fans, that has always been the ethos of Thunder, and their countless live recordings that have been released only for those to whom the sound of the epic has seen them attend gigs under the guise of what can only be described as the ultimate Christmas party; the countless wonderous days and fearless nights that have been captured and distributed are legendary; and yet there are moments that until now have remained almost a secret, not seeing the light of day by the vast majority.

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

New Model Army: Unbroken. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What remains unbroken can only lead us to a place of greater appreciation, for in the perpetual reason of consistency lays a conversation uninterrupted and steady, one of stable and secure dependability; and into this realm of even-handed commentary resurfaces the enigmatic shrouded pulse of New Model Army and their brand-new album, Unbroken.

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(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Tourist. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Victoria Haralabidou, Greg Larson, Conor MacNeil, Olwen Fouéré, Francis Magee, Réginal-Roland Kudiwu, Diarmaid Murtagh, Nessa Matthews, Mark McKenna, Nathan Page.

The first series of The Tourist was the kind of instant television hit that had the nation talking, the sun-baked Noir outback of Australia’s dusty landscape acting as the perfect accomplice to the mystery that saw Jamie Dornan’s amnesiac Man search for the answers to his predicament and the salvation in which he comes to understand as his life becomes one of cat and mouse, of damnation.

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(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)