Rebecca Downes: The Space Between Us. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Space Between Us is looked upon by some as a reason to wage war, that it is a division that is too wide to bridge, to reach across with open hands and challenge not in conflict, but in peace; and then there are those who see the space as a way to be filled by any means necessary to make contact, those open hands not just reaching out, but actively holding out for the belief that space is just a way to grow, to make the distance so small that our lives rightly overlap and be as one.

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(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Trouble Is…25. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Don’t let the full stop fool you, a poem is never truly finished, it just waits to evolve, to have the writer look up from the implement of their trade and the Muse of their desires and contemplate adding a line that has just struck them, as inspiration is apt to do, at the advent of a monumental moment in time.

Anniversaries, notable ones, are there for reflection, and a gift, and the finest of those are the ones that look upon the event being honoured and celebrated and with their own mind see a way to comment upon, perhaps even improve the initial moment.

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(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Jude Adams: Freedom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

People search for the fabled land of Freedom, without ever realising they are standing in the exact centre of it from the moment they first gain consciousness and delight in the appearance of each brand new day that unfolds as the sun streaks across the sky; it is only in our apparent need to keep ourselves in boxes, constantly labelling ourselves with the latest fashion stigma, naming ourselves this, that, and sometimes the other, that traps us, that erodes our freedom to be.

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Shadow Captain: Home Is The Hero. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes”, the point taken, understood and arguably looked upon as a template of emotional sacrifice that we must share equally as we look to those who give their all so that others may live to fight another day.

It is a sacrifice intended to make the survivor feel indebted to the idea that heroism is an artifice, that by having heroes entails a sense of wretched idealism, and yet it is more about the loss, a surrender to grief, for what is grief, but a love never forgotten, a love that bravely withstands the winds of snide and malicious intent to do the soul of the bereft harm.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Morbius. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Al Madrigal, Zaris-Angel Hator, Joe Ferrara, Charlie Shotwell, Joseph Esson, Michael Keaton, Corey Johnson, Joanna Burnett.

To the casual observer the adaptations of graphic novels to the large screen has become an avalanche that shows no sign of slowing down, to the seasoned watcher, it is near impossible to relay the fact that the studios and directors, the script writers, and the producers, have barely got started yet.

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

U.D.O. The Legacy. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Think carefully of what you leave behind for others, it needs to be more than a gift, an inheritance, the heirloom passed down through the ages which takes up room and is not to your taste but you have kept out of a fear of upsetting the spirits of the ancestors; but it should always be a heritage of your own soul, the truth of what you excelled at urging your beneficiaries to search out and offer the world the same.

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(388 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

April Moon: The Other One Was You. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Few this side of the Atlantic will ever take the chance to see beyond the metropolitan excess that the north of the American continent has to offer, to the European and wider world who visit the land of the free, and the soil of the disconcertingly polite and proudly liberal, and that is more than a shame, it is a discredit to each and every one of us who impede our discovery at the gifts shops of all the major cities and who refuse to experience what lays further on.

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(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Steely Dan: Can’t Buy A Thrill. Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Arguably at some point in time you will have heard a Steely Dan track and caught yourself appreciating the artistry involved; even if you never sought them out again, if your curiosity was not pricked by the sound and rather utopian grift of lyric which had at its centre a kick of deliverance to the dramatic, then the one track will surely have stayed with you…an earworm that would not let go.

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(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Billy Joel: Live At The Yankee Stadium. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We all have that one gig we wish we could have attended, the type that falls into folklore, the one that is amongst the defining memories of all who attended, and which sows desire amongst those left out to make the next concert even more legendary, even more musically explosive. That one moment in time is rarely repeated, but if you are fortunate, if the performer finds it possible, then it might well become a physical bond that does not rely on other’s recollection that you insert yourself between, instead it becomes your own night of pleasure lived.

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(558 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Dr. Feelgood: Damn Right! Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is no need to pull any punches, let them land, let them bruise, let them shine and became the tales of war, for only by being hurt can you come back stronger than ever and renewed in faith and spirit to take on the oppressors and the dynamic of tyranny; and if you need a doctor to prescribe the feelgood emotion, then listen on.

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