Amy Papiransky, Read Me Write. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the emotional turmoil that comes with attempting to express one’s beliefs, hopes and thoughts, we often accuse of others of not making sense, we deride them for their stuttering shadows of speech, as if that is the point of existence, to play a game of battering egos in which assumption of somebody’s worth is decided by how well you decide they have got their opinion across.

Kris Barras Band, Light It Up. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The bonfire that surrounds us is one that few are willing to see burn to the ground, the smoke will cling to our skin for a while but it will also find a way to point the way clear, to act as a beacon that our personal thoughts are sacred. Our belief is tantamount to the revolution that we wish to see witness, whether it is one of the mind, or of the soul, such is the value to be gained by imploring others to Light It Up, and then, like the aftermath of a volcanic eruption, in time finding that new growth can bring forth rapid change.

Backline, Salem Town. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To feel bewitched by sound is such an enormous pleasure that it can feel at times completely overwhelming, the sense of having been placed under a soothing spell of aural confusion and symphony is to give yourself to the elementals and the practitioners of numerous spiritual allusions; it is under this influence that the trip to Salem Town is one that comes out of the blue and strips you of all tempting pride and places you instead in a world where angels speak to you of enchanting stories and tales.

Ina Forsman, Katrina Pejak, Ally Venable: Blues Caravan 2019. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They Say I’m Different, perhaps not so much different, as distinctive, a symbol of female drive and Blues passion that is captivating, and which has thankfully been part of a growing with speed since the turn of the century; a far cry from the times in which to be part of the Blues arguably meant for a woman somehow being seen as the voice, and not as the face and the heart of the song.

Chris Wragg And Greg Copeland, Deep In The Blood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Visio Rating 8.5/10

You cannot ignore what is Deep In The Blood, the signs of your own humanity, the ecstasy of life, and even when others blood may run cold as the story continues, it is, in the end, their loss, their problem, for understanding what drives you, is in itself the point of having heart, courage and pleasure continuously running through your veins.

The combination that comes out of nowhere is one that injects fortune into the mind of the seeker, the one who unceasingly pursues the next form in which to wrestle with, who knows there is something else that survives in the blood, that it is honey that makes the world a sweeter proposition that might otherwise be the case.

Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin’ Stones. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Intensity is a virtue that is often treated as if it is an instrument of power, of exploitation, rather than the thought of demonstrated appreciation and the stepping-stone to fulfilment, it all depends on the circumstance, the application, the means of delivery to which few manage to convey with sincerity of heart and without seeming to go overboard and headlong in to the realm of unrequited devilish glee.

Burton Guibord, Are We Free? Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Are We Free? Not at all, we may give the appearance and nodding glance to the notion of liberty, but deep down we know we are tied to the spectre of authority, as a species, as an individual. It is only in the hands of the dreamers, the poets, the writers and the artists that arguably the land of independent thought can exist, even then it is secured and gagged by others who dismiss the point as being one only driven by the self, that the ideal of Utopia is one that cannot exist unless humanity dies.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Al Pacino, Nicholas Hammond, Samantha Robinson, Rafal Zawierucha, Lorenza Izzo, Costa Ronin, Damon Herriman, Lena Dunham, Madisen Beaty, Mikey Madison, James Landrey Hebert, Maya Hawke, Victoria Pedretti, Sydney Sweeney, Harley Quinn Smith, Dallas Jay Hunter, Kansas Bowling, Parker Love Bowling, Cassidy Hice, Ruby Rose Skotchdopole, Danielle Harris, Josephine Valentina Clark, Scoot McNairy, Dreama Walker, Rachel Redleaf. Rebecca Rittenhouse, Rumer Willis.

 

Blinded By The Light. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Neera Ganatra, Aaron Phagura, Dean-Charles Chapman, Nikita Mehta, Nell Williams, Tara Divina, Rob Brydon, Frankie Fox, Hayley Atwell, Sally Phillips.

For anyone who was a teenager during the 1980s it can seem that the labelled term of Generation X is perhaps more acute than other, the era of decline, few opportunities, spiralling unemployment, the world no longer an oyster, instead it was the dead end to which the feeling of alienation, guilt, rage and regret were all summed up as the keepers of the social flux, in which society changed and they had no choice but to rebel and move away from the expected dreams of their parents before them.

Julie Birmant And Clement Oubrere, Isadora. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

Ballet divides opinion, but the dance never should. The ability to break, to smash the conventional is a right that few of us find the true appetite for, we may talk of revolution across every sphere and subject, but in the end we hold on, almost by our fingernails, kicking and screaming, to the orthodox and the dogma of the traditional.