Steve Hill: Hanging On A String. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It may seem flippant to suggest, for some it will be a preposterous notion, but it arguably a truth that only art can save the world, or at least civilisation as far as humanity is concerned, and whilst we are at a precipice of Time, hanging not just by a thread, but by our fingernails on collective sanity and our anger, we have the opportunity to enthuse others to a place where art in all its forms connects in ways that other areas of life are afraid to tap into.

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(454 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sunjay: I’m Just Like You. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We spend so long, so many hundreds of hours daydreaming, hoping, fantasizing, that we could be someone else, or at least be someone that someone would want to be like, that we forget for the vast majority of times those same people cast their stare in our direction and hold their tongue, not sure on how to inform us, to openly declare, I’m Just Like You.

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(466 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh: Flowers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst we are all unique, we must at some point agree to join forces in a way that brings out the very best in our ability, in our vision, and to bring something new to the public’s attention, a sign that union is not only welcome but required to attain a new balance in the world.

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(367 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Mia Kelly: To Be Clear. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The art of storytelling in any artistic endeavour is to find the smallest moment that you observed and give it credence, to make it larger, impress upon it the sense of the familiar and cherished, to exaggerate on the belief that binds it. Fiction is a lie well told, a story is that lie given a soul; and if that story is greeted with pleasure and is valued, then it is an epic of an esteemed nature.

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

Erlend Viken Trio: Ville Veier. Album Review.

Erlend Viken Trio - Ville Veier cover artwork. A photo of a street corner with a fallen traffic light surrounded by protective tape.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In a world dominated by the pop ballad and the sound of various genres filling the space of the beating heart of the human experience, when we come across the sound of the dominating fiddle calls back to a time in which we were more in tune with our natural surroundings, a creative dynamic which struck beauty into the soul, but which equally could send mournful floods of tears cascading down the cheek as the heart broke time and time again.

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(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Freud’s Last Session. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam, Orla Brady, George Andrew-Clarke, Rhys Mannion, Pádraic Delaney, Stephen Campbell-Moore, Aiden McArdle, Tarek Bishara, Nina Kolomiitseva, Gary Buckley, Emmet Kirwan, David Shields, Anna Amalie Blomeyer.

Perfect for the stage, but perhaps in many eyes not good enough for the large screen, in that itself the message is lost in psychoanalysis and treatment, the thought that one piece of art cannot exist in two or more different realms of the public’s mind; this schism is a mindset that cannot afford space in the human experience.

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

Curfew. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Sarah Parish, Mandip Gill, Mitchell Robertson, Alexandra Burke, Tommy McDonnell, Lucy Benjamin, Anita Dobson, Adam Korson, Amy Louise Pemberton, Bobby Brazier, James Craven, Selorm Adonu, Pearl Dsouza, Alisha Bailey, Mark Killeen, Emily Ross, Oliver Anvin-Wilson, Larry Lamb, Raphael D’Alterio, Ciarán Owens, Phoebe Sparrow.

The safety of the individual is imperative, however when considered against the freedom of half the population we have to consider with balanced feelings, with an eye to the future and the impact it might have on social and societal cohesion in the future.

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

Platform 7. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Yaamin Chowdhury, Reece Ritchie, Jasmin Jobson, Toby Regbo, Tábata Cerezo, Rhiannon Clements, Cleo Sylvestre, Phil Davis, Sacha Parkinson, Natasha Joseph, Aimée Kelly, Patrick Robinson, Lisa Allen, Melanie Gutteridge, Mark Noble, Emily Carey, Beru Tesseme, Caroline Koziol, Dominic Doughty, Lauren Darbyshire, Lladel Bryant, Victoria Myers, Sophia Rowlands, Adam Long, Nathan Graham, Joe Standerline, Jasmine Bayes, Gerard Fletcher, Margaret Clunie, Moey Hassan, Marvyn Dickinson.

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

Paul Heaton: The Mighty Several. Album Review.

Paul Heaton - The Mighty Several - Reviews - Album of The Year

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There isn’t much grace left in dear old Blighty, the romance of an aged past, the lies of eras, the spotlight that has pinpointed its crusty, faded façade, is one that has caused a schism, a naked fear of upset division in the isles of less than plenty, a rupture in appreciation for the truth of fine minds who speak with eloquence and richness of the finest of poets, and the classiest of men.

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(454 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Beth Hart: You Still Got Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are attracted to the raging fire in ways that the cold and impenetrable icebergs cannot fathom, the jagged, spiky chunks of ice may look cool but once you seek below the exterior you find nothing true, nothing substantial; and yet the passion of the fire, the enthusiasm of seeing the energy burn, of being close to the inferno…that’s as true, as authentic as you can possibly hope to be in the presence of.

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