Solasta, A Cure For The Curious. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Arguably, there is only one cure for curiosity, and that is exploration, the willingness to delve further into what novelty, curio, or wonder has peaked your interest and set your imagination ablaze. The explorer finds a place for all the curios they find, collect and muster, a single case of pleasure, open only to those who also believe in the marvel of the world; A Cure For The Curious, the only cure is consideration, evaluation and study, if that all comes to love then be as curious as you want about anything and never let anyone dismay you with their own unfounded opinion.

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(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

On The First Day, They Created Warmth.

 

A brand-new boiler, installed

to keep us warm this winter,

all pistons firing, cosy

we wish to be, to keep away

the oncoming winter storm

from our sheets and duvet

and allow our toes,

and often frozen fingers

the chance to not feel the pain

of Jack’s teeth tearing at our vulnerable flesh.

All is well,

only a thousand other jobs

to keep us safe

in old age.

 

Ian D. Hall 2018

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Joe Bonamassa, Redemption. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Some people will lead you on a merry dance as they implore with hands held out, palms open and a look of sorrow on their face, that they seek Redemption, atonement for all they have caused, for all the desperation they have endured in their life, and whilst you want to believe them, while the tears flow down their faces, you know deep in your heart, it is not release they seek, but attention, their voices and actions giving them away as they strut across the stage.

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(487 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Richard Thompson, 13 Rivers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For some the storm never appears, they sit waiting for a sign of thunder, of the spark of lightning to reach out to the Earth, before they start to write, to create, or even seek shelter. The storm from within, the gathering of words that play in the mind, it is almost as if the swell of distant tidal storm is racing down through the mind and to the fingers, that 13 Rivers have found a way to merge, to burst open the inventive, original mind and release an abundance of near-perfection out into the world. In folk legend Richard Thompson, it takes more than a mile wide damn to stop the flood of 13 Rivers from achieving his goal.

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

Hawkwind, Road To Utopia. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Re-writing what has gone before is something we are often told is tantamount to papering over the cracks, the edifice perhaps has started to crumble, the foundations shifting and cracking in the oddest of places, re-writing what has once been laid down in stone is considered by many as finding a way to put a different stamp on ideas, perhaps make them more appealing to a new generation of ears, arguably revising some elements out of the history books and making a clean sweep of your own indelible past.

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(491 words, 1 image, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Ann Wilson, Immortal. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a sadness that dwells within us all, a sense of melancholy that resides in our hearts, tucked away perhaps in a corner, being fed by the past, being ignored by the future; it is in this sense of sadness that joy can arise, that a set of songs that may have influenced you, arguably could have thrilled you, can dispel the gloom, and make you believe, despite it all, that the prospect of covering preceding work can bind you to all your own tomorrows.

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(452 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Good Charlotte, Generation RX. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

The inner struggle is one that bares its teeth readily in the world of art, it is almost as if the exercise of releasing the beast, of finding a way to pour oil on troubled shores, is a purifying, and therapeutic liberation of the soul, that wishing the world to burn whilst holding the only match is an emotional stance in which the pain of existence is intensely shown.

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

Pete Williams, H.O.L.L.A.N.D. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Moments come and go, some are left in the photograph album, untouched, unseen for years, others are loved, their very being able to transport you to a time when perhaps either everything was just how you wanted it to be, or they were painful reminders of what was but ones that now drive you forward, that make sure you have the impetuous to carry you on the next part of your journey and story.

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

Chilly Gonzales, Solo Piano III. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The third act of anyone’s life is the one that perhaps encapsulates the feeling of the rage of the storm, it is a more powerful and distinctive anger than one comes with the recklessness of youth, the injustices of the anger are manifold, the burning of the soul runs deep, it is almost as if the war that is frenzied and attacking on all sides as people wish you would calm down, is relentless and all consuming. It is in this tempest, this frenzy of imagination and indignation, that the work and world of the third act is a powerful beast which is both stunningly beautiful and dramatically succinct in its delivery.

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

The House With A Clock In Its Walls. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5.10

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Lorenzo Izzo, Owen Vaccaro, Colleen Camp, Kyle MacLachlan, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Sunny Sulijc, Perla Middleton, Sandy Givelber, Alli Beckman, Christian Calloway, Vanessa Anne Williams, Jalyn Hall, De’Jon Watts, Kom Chauncheun, Anna Chauncheun.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)