Kimberly Morgan York, Found Yourself A Lady. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If the title is a question, then the answer would be a simple yes, but it is loaded, for the listener will soon come to understand as they take in moment by moment the sound and expression of Kimberly Morgan York’s debut album Found Yourself A Lady, that what they have actually discovered, stumbled upon with delight, is an artistic soul who fought the metaphorical devils and come out the other side with her veins filled with intent, her mind a blazing, and the stomach for a fantastic tune fortified and steeled.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Only Child, Another Sunday Comes. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There was a time when you could measure your life by the expectancy of how your weekend shaped up on its second day. For many Sunday was at the best of times dull, routine, a moment where on the Saturday night you might, if you were able to, hear the moans of a nation realise in beige coloured horror that the least engaging day of the week was upon them, and that the vaunted day of rest was to be endured, and that their parents would be asleep on the coach by midday and the spectre of family dinner would soon rear its head.

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

Division: Dark, Prophecy. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A prediction is, on the face of it, an easy statement to declare, after all there is usually at least a fifty percent chance that you will be right if you think it through, the odds, permutations, is nothing short of watching two boxers slug it out and having a cash incentive on the winner; then as the successful boxer’s arm is lifted and the crowd cheers, you can earnestly say, and appear sage like in the act, that you predicted the outcome.

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

Naked Gypsy Queens, Georgiana. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a refreshing turn when a young group, a musician, any artist of serious note, can hand on their heart declare in the modern world that they are not in the profession for the clicks, the likes, the social media gratification, but that what they do is go out there and fill the room with so much electricity it could bring about an overload at the nearest substation and cause widespread disruption to the local area.

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

Sam Millne, Living In Limbo. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all have to live somewhere, but for some, Limbo is a place where we are slotted into because those who cannot see beyond their own ego and ambition are driven to push the living, the alive, and the creative into a realm where they have to fight for every breath, where the talented and gifted are often overlooked.

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

Trip, A Drop For Neptune. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To reach the safety of a home port you have to navigate the storm, the tempest that stalks us all when we take to the water and sail beyond the horizon for the first time; it is the search for ourselves that leads into the water, the chance to find the hero within, or at least the navigator for others to steer their own ships by, and as we sweat in the eye of the storm, as rain threatens to tear the skin from our soul, we offer A Drop For Neptune in return to home, we offer sacrifice to the god of the sea, and that sacrifice is a promise that we will always return to the water that surrounds us.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Don Fernando, You Are My Blood: Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all have that favourite venue, it is only natural after all to enjoy spending time in one place, the large and expansive, the intimate, the lively, the back alley dive, the glittering recently opened where the vibe last longer than the free 1st round paid for beers, and should the quality of bands never diminish, should the introduction to a new sound forever catch you pleasingly unawares, then what is just four walls and a sound desk to some, will become like family to you; it is as if you are ready to pronounce allegiance to the venue by declaring You Are My Blood.

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(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

A Discovery Of Witches: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Lindsay Duncan, Alex Kingston, Edward Bluemel, Sheila Hancock, Tom Hughes, Adrian Rawlins, James Purefoy, Gregg Chilingirian, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Valerie Pettiford, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Sophia Myles, Greg McHugh, Leo Ashizawa, Milo Twomey, Trystan Gravelle, Holly Aird, David Newman, Peter McDonald, Amanda Hale, Anton Lesser, Straun Rodger, 

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(582 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Toast Of Tinseltown. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Matt Berry, Doon Mackichan, Fred Armisen, Tim Downie, Shazad Latif, Cecilia Appiah, Robert Bathurst, Rashida Jones, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Larry David, Natasia Demetriou, Kayvan Novak, Adrian Lukas, Harry Peacock, Aiden Turner, Colin McFarlane, Morgana Robinson, Benedict Wong, Tracey Ann Oberman, Freddie Annobil-Dodoo, Nigel Betts, Jaime Barbakoff, Guy Coombes, Gina Bellman, Freddie Fox, Neil Hudson, Jennifer Armour, Bill Hader, Greg Canestrari, Caroline Hacker, Flaminia Cinque, Mara Huff, Hanako Footman, Stuart Milligan, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Paul Rudd.

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(682 words, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)

Gabriel Moreno, The Year Of The Rat. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never mind the Year Of The Cat, or indeed that of the pig or the dog either, for in The Year Of The Rat great changes are audibly recognised, and it comes with a sweeping fascination of what is to surely descend upon us.

Poetry and music are intrinsically linked, not only through the obvious reasoning of their artistic Venn Diagram in which stars such as Leonard Cohen and Jaques Brel are admired, revered to a point where they are cast as human gods of their craft, but through the ability to communicate thought in such a way that they raise the mind of the listener to a place where consciousness is a doorway to the stars.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)