Marauder: Metal Construction VII. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never demolish or tear apart what others have spent a lifetime building, only they have the right to look upon their creation and deem it a construction not worthy of their time…all we have the right to do is either keep our council, or praise in such a way that is truthful, that is honest.

Critically such an approach does not nobody favours, least of all the intricacy of the artist who places their work before a crowd and requires feedback in order to grow, to respond in kind when the Muse rears their head once more and shows a shapely aptitude to an novel idea.

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(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Audio Drama/Orchestration Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sam Dale, Ean Bailey, Clare Corbett, Carl Prekopp, Ryan Early.

You would be forgiven for thinking that Arthur Conan Doyle’s seminal gothic tale, The Hound of The Baskervilles, could not be adapted in any shape or form more than what has gone before; you would be forgiven, but as with anything that has history nipping at its ankles, the reality is that as long as the human mind can imagine it, then that beast, that means of murder and intrigue can be shown to continue to haunt the dreams of all who dare try to solve the mystery taking place in the lonely, haunting, dangerous moors of south west England.

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(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Paramore: This Is Why. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

This Is Why the evolution of a band must be allowed to run its course, for how else does an artist see a distant perspective and believe they can drive into it with fury and vigour in equal measure if they aren’t given the space to explore, to rejuvenate, to re-emerge in a different light.

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(359 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

National Treasure: Edge Of History. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Lisette Olivera, Zuri Reed, Antonio Cipriano, Jordan Rodrigues, Jake Austin Walker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Brenda Wool, Lyndon Smith, Armando Riesco, Darri Ingolfsson, Salena Qureshi, Dustin Ingram, Tommy Savas, Joseph D. Reitman, Jacob Vargas, Alejandro Edda, Patrick Brennan, Kathleen York, Vanessa Vasquez, Chris Browing, Gariel ‘G -Rod’ Rodriguez, Jay Montalvo, Ben Taylor, Derek Russo, Neal Kodinsky, Shane Paitlow, Tevin Marbeth, Davod Kellaway, Derek Evans.

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(659 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

The Willow Trio: The Swan of Salen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

At some point in the future our descendants will look back on the period of post-World War Two popular music and declare it be akin to how we perceive, for the most part, the realm of what we consider to be classical music; the words stuffy, inaccessible, even perhaps relic, certainly historical, will be tossed around by youths as much as for the last 70 years, teenagers, Generation X’s and beyond have insisted that the likes of Beethoven, Schuber, and Tchaikovsky are not relevant to the world today.

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(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Mary Elizabeth Remington: In Embudo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There may be a truth of ego when an artist feels a large gathering singing one of their songs word for word in front them, the pitch, the sentiment, the meaning all being echoed back, that surely is a buzz that speaks for itself, the large the voice the bigger the response.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Rachel Baiman: Common Nation Of Sorrow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Perhaps for the first time since the dark days that shrouded Europe and much of the world, we are going through a period of time in human history that 90 percent of us are feeling an emotion that is akin to sorrow, a grief that we cannot explain, a regret we cannot describe, an unhappiness we don’t know how to shed; and yet we fight on, smiles plastered to our faces as if positioned there by a child with a crayon, an empty laugh forever hanging on our lips.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Sean Taylor Band: Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

By definition, a musician will slowly reveal their most intimate selves the more they shed others around them.

It is understandable that the group of friends who grew up together, rehearsed, argued, loved, made their statements of their youth and observations, should slowly drift apart and their worlds take on different meanings. As night follows day, the longer the musician stays in touch with the public, the more likely they are to have a solo career that outshines, at least critically, their former life within the structure of the band.

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(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Kaxio: Full Devoid. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Being normal and sticking to convention is not, and has never been, cool.

To be questioned on your approach to your vision rather than just blindly being accepted is a gift to which many are denied, and for whom far too many blindly wish to serve.

Why should the mysterious, the enigmatic, and the cryptic be solely for the preserve of the dark, for to enlighten the world we must seek to assure those who have a different artistic vision that they also will be heard in the open bright stage, that the Full Devoid lacks nothing in the eyes and soul of those who see the potential and the drama that will ensue.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Rookery Ensemble: Islets of Langerhans. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In a world that encourages the stilted and formal to be take on the mantle of leadership, it is the courage of the experimental to whom we should hail as directors, the spearheads in a campaign against the beige and obscenely dull.

There is a difference between searching for the novel form in which to instigate intrigue and attraction and that of the drastic manoeuvre in which the brash display their thoughts via the medium of promotion of self-illusion, of boasting through the art of conceit; one is an honest adventure, the other arguably a titillation for the audience of bluster and vanity.

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