Aimée Steven, Today. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We care too much for the clambering voices of descent that scream in our ears of all we have done wrong, and never enough attention to the voice that may be perceived as a whisper, that could be the murmur of inquisitive appreciation, which wishes us well. Such self-doubt is magnified, personified, and objectified as an attack on all our tomorrows, all that we hope for is shaken, the happiness we seek is tainted, and all because we found a way to defeat future selves, rather than listen to the hope of Today.

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(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

The Herron Brothers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You shouldn’t judge a new album by the single that precedes it, a lie we often tell ourselves in the pursuit of new music that we hope will fulfil and nourish the soul, that what comes first must surely just be a stepping stone to the ultimate goal reached when every song is played, and we pray will leave us exhilarated and satisfied as when we first opened our ears to the possibility as the single rang out, catching our eager attention.

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(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Sweetheart. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Andrew Crawford, Benedict Samuel.

The castaway is no stranger to cinema audience, it is how the underlying tension of loneliness and survival is portrayed is where the film can live or die on its knees, and occasionally be seen as one of the fundamental films of its type which resonates deeply with all who see it.

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

Rich Krueger, The Troth Sessions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We live in a world where loyalty is questioned and where fidelity is routinely interrogated as if it were part of a plot to overthrow a balance in nature where the suspicious and sceptical are the main players to be concerned of; everyone wants to be feel as if they are the only ones capable of showing such trust, that their word is not just a bond, but is the only one others can trust.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Shadow Captain, The Pan Piper. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Where the children lead, is where the adults follow to hear the music being played, if a child stops on the street to hear something being performed, a tune playing with the surrounding air, then the parent or guardian should, and must, stop as well, for in that moment in the hands of the unknown pied piper, the gregarious guitar picker or The Pan Piper that gives the nation’s shoppers its background soundtrack as they idly walk around in a glaze of credit, a kind of magic, a spell conjured, is to be observed.

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(352 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For The Bone Collector. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Russell Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, Roslyn Ruff, Ramses Jimenez, Brooke Lyons, Tate Ellington, Courtney Grosbeck, Brian F. O’Byrne, Michael Imperioli, Claire Coffee, Tawny Cypress, Jaidon Walls, Rose Evangelina Arrendondo, Tracie Thoms.

As a species we are far more obsessed with serial killers than we are arguably with a range of subjects that would surely be more beneficial to our soul, and yet, whether you are a fan of working your own grey cells to the point of examining every one you know as a possible suspect, for any imaginable inclination in the disease of murder, or whether you find a sense of titillation, a gruesome understanding of the way the mind thinks; to be in the room as they speak their own gospel and truth is perhaps the zenith of police investigation.

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(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Ole Frimer Band, Live In Eppingen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A life on the road, a modern view to which the great American, the father of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, would no doubt find daunting to maintain in this combustible and ego driven age; the beat would perhaps be too random to maintain, the exploits and adventures would not only be frowned upon, but there would be placards and demonstrations staged against such a creative artist stepping foot on the highway or even performing words of wisdom for the world.

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(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Leaves’ Eyes, The Last Viking. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When you think of what monumental actually means, the images such a word can bring to mind, you would be within your rights to argue that it is a discussion with others that would centre around historic events or even the sense of Time captured in the raising of a building, an iconic feature on the landscape, whether by human design or by nature’s own fearsome vision, monumental is to the naked human eye, a jaw-dropping colossus that cannot be tamed but to which civilisation is based upon.

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(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Jack Henderson, Where’s The Revolution. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The tragedy of human existence is that it is over in the blink of an eye, just as we find out who we are, we return to the void and the cold, having only achieved and realised an infinitesimal amount of the potential energy we were capable of doing. The same feeling of tragedy can be seen in the way we talk endlessly of change but in which thanks to our own inability to agree on how to progress, what the end result should be, we are left, generation after generation, son after father, daughter after mother, asking with an air of damning frustration in the voice the loaded question, Where’s The Revolution?

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

Stjepan Sejic, Harleen. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When you are young you want to identify as the hero, to be the one who catches the criminals and be seen as a warrior in the war against evil, to be Wonder Woman or Batman, Spiderman or She-Hulk; when you are young you want to be the hero, as you grow older, as you lose the ability to be optimistic and heroically naive, the more you understand the villain, the more you can see the world through their eyes.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)