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Mike Ryan: Back Where We Are. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of music is rarely anything but generous, if it is given permission to slide into the soul like first teenage love into the mind, it can be both pure, and exotic, the harvest it offers is enough to have you reminiscing at all times on its influence, how it makes you choose sides, how it ails you, how it lifts you to places that you never would imagine existing; and all that comes between is proof that it’s emotional resonance is all that is required to take you back…Back Where We Are, back to belief.

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(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

a-ha: True North. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Admiration of longevity normally comes with a price, the understanding that a particular artist, a group, a collection of like-minded performers has been around as long as you can remember, ones that may have formed your early appreciation for the genre, can lead to feelings of buoyancy, and that of regret.

The upheaval of the heart is such that the memory is subject to a bout of melancholy, the soul searches for a True North, and the mind will wander, flicking from celebration of past works to the commemoration that like life itself, such things must eventually end.

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(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Harrison Drive: Harrison Drive. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Contrary to popular belief, not all roads lead to Rome, some have the extraordinary fortune to defy the straight progression and are able to double back on themselves to restart the journey, to offer a moment of reflection whilst the engine turns over, and then, with passion, restart in earnest and with the vehicle of expression in fifth gear, storm the future as Rome only beckons if part of a European tour, and with satisfaction that where you started in Harrison Drive was the most important stop along the way.

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

Only Murders In The Building. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Amy Ryan, Jayne Houdyshell, Teddy Coluca, Michael Cyril Creighton, Jackie Hoffman, Cara Delevingne, Vanessa Aspillaga, Ryan Broussard, Tina Fey, Adina Version, Nathan Lane, Russell G. Jones, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, James Caverly, Daniel Oreskes, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Rapaport, Jaboukie Young-White, Christine Ko, Ariel Shafir, Ali Stoker, Ade Oyukoya, Orson Hong, Kirk Kelly, Jane Lynch, Shirley MacLaine, Andrea Martin, Amy Schumer, Paul Rudd, Mark Consuelos, Wakeema Hollis.

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(615 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Power Of The Doctor. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Sophie Aldred, Janet Fielding, David Bradley, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Jo Martin, David Tennant, Sacha Dhawan, Jemma Redgrave, Jacob Anderson, Bradley Walsh, Patrick O’Kane, Joe Sims, Sanchia McCormack, Danielle Bjelic, Anna Andressen, Richard Dempsey, Jos Slovik, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Bonnie Langford, Katy Manning, William Russell, Simon Carew, Jon Davey, Mickey Lewis, Chester Durrant, Felix Young, Richard Price, Andrew Cross, Matt Doman.

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(697 words, estimated 2:47 mins reading time)

Hugh Cornwell: Moments Of Madness. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Every one of us is capable of suffering Moments Of Madness, just as we are qualified to wreck someone’s day by just a simple act of unthinking, or causing devastation by being placed into a position of responsibility that leaves the country in a mess, and the whole world laughing at your response.

Every day we see others create an issue, an unthinking drama that unfolds because they switched off their brains and allowed air to fill up their minds, and that moment of madness becomes replayed in the modern age on social media platforms the wide world over.

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(378 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Neil Campbell: Faldum. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Eventually all is peace, even in the mind of the author and scribe who have spent their entire lives creating worlds that are mirrors to our own, or satires and punishments that the written word can hope to destroy lethargy, corruption, exhaustion, and intolerance, all must be that we become like the sturdy mountains of old, resolute, finite, towering over the lives of the people below…silent as sunlight watching water evaporate.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Let Spin: Thick As Thieves. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Words are powerful, they are the cornerstone of communication, without them what is intimated is often lost in maelstrom of contact, an empty e-mail expecting the reader to understand their task, a map without context, a song with no feelings or regrets…words are the basis of conversation and mean the world in a place of silence.

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Lightning Seeds: See You In The Stars. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Only when it is completely dark, do you realise how much you have neglected the stars.

Neglect is everywhere, in love, in decency, in hope, in time, it is the silence that accompanies the memory that we are so busy making sure we stay afloat, that we have forgotten to see the potential above us; and whether it is born out of destruction caused by others, or by our own feelings of damage, of desecration of the spirit by the darkness we allow to stop us from seeing others in the heavens.

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

She Hulk: Attorney At Law. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Ginger Gonzaga, Steve Coulter, Jameela Jamil, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Tim Roth, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Wong, Charlie Cox, Jon Bass, Trevor Salter, Nicholas Cirillo, Drew Matthews, Justin Eaton, Vas Sanchez, Griffin Matthews, George Bryant, Nick Gomez, Tess Malis Kincaid, Brandon Stanley, David Otunga, Eddy Rioseco, Michael Curiel, Nathan Hurd, David Pasquesi, Rhys Coiro.

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(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)