Pink Floyd: Live From Los Angeles Sports Arena. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For those that found they could not find a way to listen to the abundance of bootleg recordings on offer during their youth, the sudden influx of band endorsed releases of some of the more dedicated listeners would have salivated over is a testament to the power of time and persuasion; Time that eventually all hard line stances must soften, and the persuasion…well that can come from many quarters but notably from the understanding that music requires an audience, and what does an audience have, legitimacy.

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

Troy Mercy: Let The Night Begin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Let The Night Begin in earnest, shake loose the dust that has collected and starting to crust over from days of intolerable boredom and frustrating stillness, for in the night, during the dark hours we can feel the earthly magic, the connection between long distance sound and the resonance of spirit, denied, crushed by suit, collar, and tie, and the ledger of the permanently stressed.

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(359 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Doris Brendel: Searching For Snails. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are musicians and stars who become iconic, not through some sense of extravagance on stage, some outspoken theory they proudly proclaim to the masses and has each person wrapped up in the light’s glow and which carries the bombastic tones and arrogance ill befitting artistic endeavour, but with a sense of guile, of persuasion, the stardom of the interaction framed by stimulating works and ideas…its like comparing gossip to meaningful conversation, and a truth worth exploring and motivating.

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(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Jim Eannelli: Don’t Bring Me Down. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A sentence does not need to be lengthy to make impact, it does not require a grand gesture to be memorable, it just needs to be spoken with clarity, and with the softness of a person who understands that the strength of the words is underlined with the force of a heart refusing to be broken, who sees joy as sacrosanct, almost holy.

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(275 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

Marc Broussard: Chance Worth Taking. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is seeing an certain opportunity, and then there is the effect that a Chance Worth Taking has on the mind, one seems calculated, often designed, gouged with determination out of stone and placed in the pantheon of marbled thought that seems to be congratulated out of simplicity by an awaiting audience, nodding sagely as if completely enthralled and patiently abiding; and yet there seems to be a kind of earthly magic, a spell cast with love and heart rather than conspicuous premeditation…and it is to this that the effect on those on the receiving end of this chance should focus their adoration upon, for it more human, more complex, and a darn sight more beautiful.

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(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Joe Jackson: Hope And Fury. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Joe Jackson is one of those incredible musicians and lyric writers that make the sound of the autobiographical so human, so very obviously in love with what it means to bare the soul through the dedication to the observation of each word and how it works with emotion, memory, and the pleasure of the listener’s attention…it is the poet within the art, the eyewitness to history’s personal unfolding, and all within the boundaries of Hope And Fury, beyond the limitations set by other’s unmeasured mind.

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(345 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

The Capture: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Holiday Grainger, Lia Williams, Ron Perlman, Ben Miles, Killian Scott, Nigel Lindsey, Paapa Essiedu, Indira Varma, Hugh Quarshie, Andrew Buchan, Isabella Brownson, Linus Rache, Jonathan Aris, Daisy Waterstones, Tessa Wong, Andy Nyman, Amanda Drew, Joe Dempsie, Adrian Rawlins, Natalie Dew.

The future envisioned by George Orwell has been exceeded in its desire to subjugate the masses, what is in its place in the third decade of the 21st Century is something even more hideous, a price paid with the vanity of ego and the fear installed at every drop every headline, and with all the power of surveillance and technology at its disposal…this is the future adapted to control a population afraid of its own possibility to fight back.

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

Clay DuBose: Father Time & Mother Nature. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When the artist insists that creating a moment is its own reward, you can either believe them and revel in their vision, or you can scoff silently, or with an unbecoming arrogance, and whisper that artists are only are ever in it for the fame, the fortune, and the favour. It is not quite the argument of flat Earth or the footsteps on the moon that seems to divide humanity, but it is one that vexes the purist and the emotionally satisfied find perplexing to deal with, for how can art be anything other than commercially free and intellectually stimulating.

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

The Fast Camels: Lost To This World. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The sense of wonder is in danger of being Lost To This World because we have become attuned to the simplicity of cynicism, the lure of scorn, and the creativity of suspicion that we have become representative of in our reckless pursuit of abandoning the very essence of human creativity, of no longer seeing the poetic heart as beautiful, and treating absence of the imagination as a sacrifice for false knowledge.

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

Suzi Quatro: Freedom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A long and distinguished career, a time of great musical fortune, and considered to be across the board one of the queens of rock, that is the blessed realisation that the listener finds when looking back at the professional life of America’s Suzi Quatro; but it is in the aftermath of life’s greatest highs that we find the Freedom in just being ourselves, or rightly being understood that the path we were on was always the one that lit up the room, that created liberty for others to follow.

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