Laura Evans: State Of Mind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The belief in the concept of the overnight success is one that does disservice to the hard work going on behind the scenes of every soul, every mind, in every corner of the world. It is the buy in to wish fulfilment, the stuff of dreams that are impossible to get on board with because it focuses on the aftermath and not the genuine passion that is the drive to life.

Amy Goddard: Rise. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whatever is thrown at you by life, by those who would see you suffer because of their own insecurities, Rise above it all, and keep being inspired to produce your own elegant version of art…advice perhaps that is not given enough space in our lives, not given freely to us unless we come across the right teacher, the one who is invested in our wellbeing, who will mentally challenge us but urge us to be accepting that out there are people who will do us wrong, not because of who we are, but because they dislike themselves to the point of suffering.

Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow: Ready For The Times. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Are You Ready For The Times? No, not the ones we have dug in against for what seems more than a lifetime, the one in which has divided opinion, set friend against friend, family member against loved ones, and created a disparity of feeling that has threatened to overspill in other sectors of life; no the times we need to be prepared for are the ones in which the emotions are guided by home truths and the deep persuasions of understanding which more than suggest that we can do better, they demand that our repertoire be expanded, that we do more than just have one arrow in our quiver to fire.

Mean Mary: Portrait Of A Woman (Part 1). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The mother of invention is more than just necessity, it is foresight, it is the demand of the mind to explore, to pursue, to go beyond the private individual and to open up the experience of the many voices that reside, often unheard, in our minds.

Grieving Sea: Donewiz. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The lure of darkness is not only for those who feel the pain of eternal light blinding them, it is also for those who see the beauty in the shade afforded to them, the brisk walk and the occasional saunter through worlds that are dimmed by nightfall, but which are the highlight of glorious imagination allowed, urged, to run wild.

Regina Spektor: Home, Before And After. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Home is the place where when you have nowhere else to turn, they take you in.

We have become perhaps to rich in our definition of home in the last decade, keen as we are to acknowledge the various parts that make up our life, the home here, the home town, the birthplace, the motherland, the native soil, and never forgetting the area in which we feel as though we should call home, when in truth home is only ever the place where you are happiest, where you feel safe, where the abundance of our memories are made, where hopefully if life has been fair, our loved ones are waiting for us at the end of time.

The Alarm: Ω. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

An end of times, for a country that is intrinsically, fundamentally divided cannot hope to continue; like a marriage that has hit the wreckage of toxic behaviour, the worst aspects of a country’s outward appearance overshadow any good that can possibly be gleaned, or indeed salvaged, from.

Porcupine Tree: Closure/Continuation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Wait enough time for something to return and there is a chance that it could prove to be a disappointment. The strength of the eagerly awaited is only underpinned by the result matching the expectancy, and at times the result can feel undervalued, under performed, and perhaps even limp, as the wrestle between anticipation and actuality becomes blurred and distorted in the eyes and soul of the one who killed time in the presence of the shadow of projected results.

Last Night In Soho. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Rita Tushingham, Synnove Karlsen, Michael Ajao, Pauline McLynn, Terrance Stamp, Sam Clafflin, Elizabeth Berrington, Jessie Mei Li, Rebecca Harrod, Kassius Nelson, Aimee Cassettari, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Beth Singh.

It is an old city and there are plenty of ghosts trapped amongst us who cannot rest, even with constant re-invention and new blood lured there in the promise of put their stamp on the world thanks to its influence, London cannot escape its own damaged past, its own cycle of death and mystery, for no matter what part of that mass conglomeration made of bricks and mortar, the ghosts have nowhere else to call home, nowhere else they can finally hope to see justice restored.

McDonald & Dodds: A Billion Beats. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Jack Riddiford, Claire Skinner, Lily Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Paul McGann, Ben Batt, Daisy Bevan, Kelvin Fletcher, Paul Forman, Naoki Mori, John Omole, Bluey Robinson, Bill Skinner, Bridgitta Roy, Nino Furuhata, Louise Jameson.

There are sports that seem universally embraced and then there are those that to a proportion of the population is not for them, that is not only fuelled by a passion that defies logic, but can seem reckless, spoiled by money, out of the realms to ordinary men and women, and in the case of motor racing, is all about the one second glimpse of the vehicle, a second in which A Billion Beats of the heart can seem to be over in a flash.