Only Child, Wintersong: Live With String Quartet. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time is precious, the performer even more so, and as we find ourselves in strange times, as we place ourselves in the hands of effort and finality, so we must seize the opportunity to find the one who keeps our sanity intact, our heart enthralled and the mind actively pursuing the kind of words that make us think, make us understand that compassion is not just an emotion to be savoured but one that an artist must install into each person they meet to make sure that the world improves, that the love of the Wintersong that enhances the warmth of the season, continues marching on through the rest of the year.

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(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Robby Krieger, The Ritual Begins At Sundown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It can be quite understandable that for many there was no afterlife for The Doors after the tragic passing of Jim Morrison, many will have drifted away, the millions will have just hung on the short but ultimately significant list of studio albums and the final hurrah of arguably one of the most important groups to have come out of 1960s America, the brutal, the dominating and utterly beguiling L.A. Woman.

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(593 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Basia Bulat, Are You In Love? Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What lays for us at the end is always up for debate, the gentle caress as we are returned to the Universe or the bang of unrequited expectation that went unfulfilled, and the question of how we were seen at the end comes racing into view, not if we were loved, but were we in love when the cold finish came.

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

The Twilight Zone: Replay. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Samaa Lathan, Damson Idris, Steve Harris, Glenn Fleshler, Jordan Peele, Candus Churchill, Zari Django, Keon Boateng, Henry Mah, Samantha Spatari, Jocelyn Panton, Blake Stadel.

We only see Time as a strict progression of cause and effect, unless we use our imagination and see how all possible futures can play out, but without the benefit of a time machine, or the understanding of how one action causes a splinter, a fracture that must always be, there is little that we can do but hope for a Replay, another chance to put our world right.

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(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Brightburn. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Abraham Clinkscales, Christian Finlayson, Jennifer Holland, Emmie Hunter, Matt Jones, Meredith Hagner, Becky Wahlstrom, Terence Rosemore, Gregory Alan Williams, Elizabeth Becks, Annie Humphrey, Steve Agee, Stephen Blackehart, Mike Dunston, Michael Rooker.

What if? The question has always been a popular game pleasingly set in the eyes of discussion, the possibilities, driven by a strong imagination and depth of knowledge of the subject, are endless and have become just as an intriguing part of life as anything we may have lived through or studies.

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

Hot Air. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Coogan, Taylor Russell, Neve Campbell, Griffin Newman, Pico Alexander, Tina Benko, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Judith Light, Skylar Astin, John Rothman, Geoffrey Cantor, Jin Ha, Declan Michael Laird, Judah Friedlander, Michael Panes, Amy Holmes, Milda Gecaite, Teddy Coluca, Oona Roche, Tuffy Questell, Jared Sandler, Kevin Alexis Rivera, Yaron Urbas, Jamar Rogers, Lara Wolf.

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(571 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Rebecca Hill, The Airing. E.P. Review.

Liverpool sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For some it is a symbol of classical rejoice, the meeting between the heavenly and the spiritually minded and the earthly bonds that we strain to be free of, and perhaps it was the classical scholar and proto Humanist, Petrarch, who observed it best when he wrote, “…And tears are heard within the harp I touch“

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

Kerri Watt, Kissing Fools. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

History has its fair share of Kissing Fools, whether through their actions causing the downfall of families and empires, or in the personal, the very human act of lips that caress one who is not worth of the attention, of allowing your mind to be controlled by a very basic urge, it all can end, for the majority of times, in disappointment, in reckless sorrow or in leaders losing their heads.

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

Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion, Chameleon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A musician who can change their outlook and shade is to be admired, they might stay within the genre, they might find the relief of crossing borders, but it is to the sound they create which sets them apart, the slight vocal inflection change, the meaning behind their songs given a greater depth and urgency, it is to this, as with all art, that the ability to be a social Chameleon, to be stand out by blending in with everything, to seek out new colours in which place their talents against and see what matches.

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

The Boomtown Rats, Citizens Of Boomtown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To find the moment in Time when a movement started, you must have been prepared to have found the Time to listen in the first place; revolutions don’t just spring up overnight, they don’t appear randomly with no forward planning, they are dreams that can decades to come into fruition.

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(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)