The New Roses, Nothing But Wild. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nothing But Wild, it is the answer to how we should be living life, away from the safe, the sedate and the unflappably dull, we should be seeing life as a challenge to be conquered, no matter how limited our resources, how rationed our ability, we must embrace the way of the wolf and be prepared to let everyone know that we are there, our fur bristling in the glow of the moon and the natural urge to bring out the big howl of the melody always enthusiastically signalled.

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

Real Authority, True Motion. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Punk was never meant to be seen as a gesture which would be looked back upon as a friendly wave of nostalgia, it was meant to terrify, to shake the rotten and self-centred to their core, and to signal a change in how we see the world, to open our eyes to the future and allow a sense of True Motion to begin.

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

Arcadia Sun, Can You See Me Now. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As time passes, we are perhaps less inclined to constantly look for the new, always in favour of hanging on what makes us smile at certain memories, the echo of the new sound one that we cannot be blamed for trying to avoid. It is part of life; we refuse to acknowledge that anything can comfortably draw the same breadth of comparison as what we have built up in our minds as the epitome of our love.

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(433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Reuben Archer With The Brand, Boneyard. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When the Personal Sin is over, all that remains is to be taken to the Boneyard to account for all you have done and rest assured that all you have done is beyond reproach; for Reuben Archer that thought is surely always there, for the sense of understanding that comes with always wanting to do more than what might be perceived as your best, to take the narrative one stage further and give life to a complete and rounded individual, is the point of searching for excellence that Reuben Archer insists upon.

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(421 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Jailbirds, The Great Escape. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you really want to know how to get out of the rat race and restore your own life balance, to plan The Great Escape and inspire others to see that world needs more loose cannons willing to express the disaffection of their souls whilst proudly, and ferociously, offering ways to lighten the mood and find a way to rock in the best traditions of AC/DC or Airbourne, then it might just fall to the four riders of the new Aussie-calypse to provide the combined measure of the fight response that breaking free from the self-placed chains produces.

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(423 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

New Order, New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes.. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We only ever witness the impact of a momentous event from a certain perspective, we may only realise there has been one long after the occurrence happened, so immersed in our own world, seeking out a path of the least resistance and the moment in which our own star shines, that we only see the glow of the night as it lights up the shadows that have already been experienced by others.

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

Spiderman: Far From Home. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Tony Revolori, Angourie Rice, Remy Hii, Martin Starr, J.B. Smoove, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Colbie Smulders, Numan Acar, Zach Barack, Zoha Rahman, Yasmin Mwanza, Joshua Sinclair-Evans, Sebastian Viveros, Toni Garrn, Peter Billingsley, Clare Dunne, Nicholas Gleaves, Claire Rushbrook, J.K. Simmons, Dawn Michelle King.

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(553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Midsommar. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Will Poulter, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Liv Miones, Anna Astrom, Isabelle Grill, Julia Ragnarsson, Louise Peterhoff, Henrik Norlen, Bjorn Andresen, Gunnel Fred, Austin R. Grant, Anki Larsson, Levente Puczko-Smith, Rebecka Johnston, Johan Matton, Mats Blomgren, Hampus Hallberg, Tove Skeidsvoll, Lars Varinger, Balazs Megveri, Anders Back, Lennart R. Svensson, Katarina Weidhagen, Klaudia Csanvi, Anders Beckman, Agnes Westerlund Rase, Maximilian Slash Marton, Tomas Engstrom, Dora Ferencczi, Dag Andersson.

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(632 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Back To Life. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Daisy Haggard, Geraldine James, Richard Durden, Liam Williams, Jamie Michie, Adeel Akhtar, Christine Bottomley, Frank Feys, Imogen Gurney, Jo Martin, Souad Feress, Jennifer Tollady, Rhona Cameron, Angus Kennedy, Juliet Cowan, Jade Harrison, Celia Henebury.

It takes a special kind of relationship between a writer and their possible audience to make any connection with comedy work, especially when it is one that is set against the backdrop of murder and the after-effects of the accused being released from prison.

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(527 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Schattenmann, Epidemie. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


We seem to want to play a cosmic game of Truth or Dare with Karma and Fate, with Time. There seems to be a consensus amongst certain groups of people to see how far we can push the Earth past the tipping point, and what does that matter as long as those particular individuals have their own trough lined with gold and the fires always burning.

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