Miles Hunt: Things Can Change. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Things Can Change…we must believe that, for everyday for the better, sometimes for the worse, we are presented with the truth of those three words, the power of their conviction and their universality. The understanding that we are immersed into a large overwhelming society where there are people that will go out of their way to provide fear, loathing, and hatred in the hope that your life can spiral out of control, is to only love those whose heart explodes with meaning and sincerity more.

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

Studio 666. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Chris Shiflett, Whitney Cummings, Jeff Garlin, Leslie Grossman, Jenna Ortega, Marti Matulis, Kerry King, Will Forte, Jason Trost, Mike Escamilla, Lional Richie, John Carpenter, Jimmi Simpson, Alexander Ward, Eli Santana, Aaron Valenzuela, Kayla Loadvine, Ivan Kungurtsey.

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(750 words, estimated 3:00 mins reading time)

This Way Comes Geoff…

What if we have been mispronouncing the Grim Reaper’s name wrong for all of humanity’s time on Earth.

What if early humans were visited by the figure in black, the scythe held ungainly in the air as the imminent passing of the person was announced, and they asked of this stranger with the power over their very life, “And what do we call you, veiled outsider, so others may come to fear you; please say it aloud to my brethren so they may pass on your hallowed name as a warning…”

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(125 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Only Child: Looking Forward To Looking Back – A Decade Of Only Child. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Time is there to either be sacrificed upon the cross of our dreams or fears, or it is the guide in which we walk, unafraid of its own lengthy shadow, understanding of all it has seen, what it chooses to forget, what it decides needs to be remembered; what we do with that information is up to us, how we deal with a year, two, a decade of information, of good times, or reflection and possible answers is purely down to us.

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

Queensrÿche: Digital Noise Alliance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter how much we may deny it, we are now in a new era, not so much A.D. but perhaps more P.P., Post Pandemic, the signs are there, the drama seems unending, and it is not all down to a disease that caught the world out, it is a reaction and reflection to the unknown, the sense that the analogue has run out of room, and the Digital Noise Alliance stands at the gates of what is now acceptable, and what has been left behind.

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(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Beth Orton: Weather Alive. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As the lyric suggests, the weather is a state of mind, it is part of the system that governs, that nature decrees. The weather is not fixed, it is fluid, ever changeable, ever possessed by the spirit of generosity and malevolence that mirrors that of the human being it follows…it could be argued that the question is not of the natural world but that it is the Weather Alive, that is sensitive and alert to the needs below on Earth, and whether we have pushed it to its extremes by not caring enough for its welfare.

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(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Werewolf By Night. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Laura Donnelly, Gael García Bernal, Harriet Sansom Harris, Kirk R. Thatcher, Eugenie Bondurant, Leonardo Nam, Daniel J. Watts, Al Hamacher, Carey Jones, David Silverman, Rick D. Wasserman, Richard Dixon, Jeffrey Ford, Erik Beck.

It is not all light and distraction that Marvel has to offer, there is also the darkness, the sombre and the toned down demanding an equal billing with the often interpretated versions of heroic endeavour.

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(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Munich Games. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Seyneb Saleh, Yousef ‘Joe’ Sweid, Sebastian Rudolph, Doval’e Glickman, Evgenia Dodina, Roger Azar, Igal Naor, Romi Aboulafia, Shadi Mar’i, Anna Skladchikova, Juliane Köhler, Omer Perelman Striks, Mehdi Meskar, Anton Spieker, David Zimmerschied, Johnny Arbid, Marius Ahrendt, Lisa Hofer, Shenja Lacher, Bernd Hölscher, Paul Wollin, Marko Copor, Matthias Reichwald, Lotta Jauch, Bozidar Kocevski, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Mazen Aljubbeh, Robert Maaser, Seumas F. Sargent, Kailas Mahadevan.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Superman & Lois. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, Alex Garfin, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Taylor Buck, Sofia Hasmik, Ian Bohen, Adam Rayner, Mariana Klaveno, Jenna Dewan, Rye Kihlstedt, Joselyn Picard, Nathan Witle, Monique Phillips, Danny Wattley, Dee Jay Jackson, Samantha Di Francesco, Toby Hargrave, Cynthia Mendez, Stephanie Cho.

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(571 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Rob Clarke & The Wooltones: Rubber Chicken B Sides. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is always gold to be found in the use and employment of the rubber chicken, and yet that reliable comedy prop has at its disposal the power to disarm and relax a situation, to ask the question in the mind of those on the receiving end, just how serious can the message be if they are prepared to make you laugh first.

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