Beto Bob, On The Other Side. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The only certainty we have when it comes to being passionate about art is just how constantly we can be surprised by its evolution.

Life has moved on in such a pace in the last sixty years that it is impossible to know everything about a chosen field in which to be a modern Renaissance person, the enjoyment factor is there, but to be a true expert across many genres is intolerably, unbearably, unattainable for the vast majority of us who are side-lined by expectation, pushed aside by the concerns of life.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Brian Bordello, Cardboard Box Beatle. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To please people all the time is an impossibility, but as the phrase might go, you can always do your best to please me.

To reach out to the individual as well as the crowd can be exhausting, you either go all out to place empathy within the soul of the person who even in a congregation feels the excess of loneliness, or you stare down the eyes of all and ignore the potential to assemble a deep-seated wish to be able to have your art loved and admired by millions.

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(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Lordi, The Masterbeast From The Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The last of the digital downloads from the superbly entertaining box set Lordiversity by the masters of theatrical mayhem, Lordi, may be upon the fan and the curious public, but that doesn’t mean that the enjoyment is over, for in The Masterbeast From The Moon, what comes across is a sense of lasting revisit, the understanding that through the absolute vision that has gone into making this series of albums available in one go, the listener will return, will come back to each and every piece of recording because it is a performance of will, a creature that straddles the enigmatic and the preposterously brilliant.

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

Warrior Soul, Out On Bail. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To feel the thrill of being Out On Bail is an emotion that many of us will hopefully never have to experience. However, it is a question of what we would set out to achieve whilst the powers that be discuss and debate our fate, would we go all out and aim for prosperity of the infamous action, or would we silently acknowledge the meekness we feel building up in our stomachs, would we act to have our voice heard, or surrender to the inevitable failing spirit?

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

Steve Dawson, Gone, Long Gone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Nashville never fails to bring life to the music realm, whether it is in the form of the native soul who has found pleasure in performing for his crowd and his people, or the interloper turned adopted child who finds their voice whilst resting on many a bar and their lyrical wonder whilst chasing the elusive dream, Nashville is to music in America as Liverpool is to life and persuasion in the U.K., no matter who goes there, they end up staying and spreading the good word.

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

Niteworks, A’ Ghrian. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To shy away, or even avoid drama is admirable, even lauded, especially in a world that has come to see drama as a chance to document every slight perceived and make others feel the retribution of the invisible force of the internet. Drama is a disease courted by those with axes to grind, drama is fuelled by a society losing its grip on dignity and seeing the whole way to fame is through the power of destruction.

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

Screw. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Laura Checkley, Faraz Ayub, Stephen Wright, Ron Donachie, Jake Davies, Ben Tavassoli, Nicholas Lumley, Jordan Myrie, Chicho Tche, James Foster, Karen Gill, Bill Blackwood, Mark Newsome, Jack Bardoe, Nathan Vaughn Harris, Riley Carter Millington, Marianne McIvor, Mark Arden, Lawrence Walker, Matthew Stirling, Simon Donaldson, Alistair Lock, Yusef Chaudhri, Jaden Baker, Denzil Baidoo, Stephen Clyde, Jordan Howat, Sagar Arya, Christopher Fulford.

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

Cat Dowling, Animals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A singular mood will not carry you far, it will become a box in which others will find easy to place you in and keep you tied to their expectation of attitude, the vein in which our words will become a crawl and the music you make nothing more than a howl of temper and sentiment of continuous irritation.

One mood is bad form, but to be able to capture the essence of every possible disposition, the humour and the passion of the cycle that can become uncontainable and far-reaching emotion, that is the place where the box converts to a state of redundancy, where the artist is transformed and develops a style that is its own unique joy.

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(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Book Of Boba Fett. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Temeura Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, Pedro Pascal, Matt Berry, David Pasquesi, Carey Jones, Jennifer Beals, Sophie Thatcher, Jordan Bolger, Robert Rodriguez, Joanna Bennett, Barry Lowin, Frank Trigg, Collin Hayes, Timothy Olyphant, Danny Trejo, Rosario Dawson.

The Western genre doesn’t die, it just finds new ways to menace the airwaves and pump new belief into what was a form of storytelling that had its supposed day by the time that science fiction became big business.

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(609 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

Dom Prag, Needle & Thread. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst some will insist that life is bruising, perhaps even enough to cause severe discolouration across several layers of skin and vital organs, we should arguably be declaring that life is delicate, fragile, and one that often requires the sympathy of repair as much as the attention given to those who seek the assurance of major surgery at every opportunity, the ones who have every minute aspect of their mind exposed to the daylight who place their being on display in a manner that stapling shut rather the fine detail available by the Needle & Thread.

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