Ben Poole, Anytime You Need Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is only when the demons bite and the desperation of a phone call at four in the morning becomes a necessity that you find out the truth behind a friend’s true statement of Anytime You Need Me, just call. It is a sign of more than friendship, this is a family that chooses you to be part of, a declaration of love and honour, one that can withstand the blues of life, but instead installs the hard rock in which to grasp hold of when it feels like you a drowning in a raging river of problems, indecision and false hope.

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(439 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Coral, Move Through The Dawn. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The early morning light that shines down on the River Mersey is one that can captivate the soul, from either side of its quiet roar, whether seen from the vantage of the blind but all-seeing Iron Men that line the route downstream like guards on view, saluting in a returning hero from its nightly excursions, or across the water, where its majesty mixes with the morning dew and creates a sense of hope, of individual and collectivism that nowhere else can match; it is almost as if this Move Through The Dawn is the herald of the stirring heart being woken, a call to arms to see the right thing done.

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(409 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Paul Carrack, These Days. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There will always be those that hang in dark places and with the unnerving ability to be snide about the ways others live their lives, it seems to be more prevalent, more widespread, an established and prevailing state if affairs into which the open hearted and passionate run the gauntlet of explaining why the ability to reminisce is important, why we find ourselves at the edge of our lives and thinking of those times in which the world promised much.

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

Iain Thomson And Mark Duff, No Borders. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are living in a time of dichotomy and a reversal of logic, the period on which historians will argue that despite all reason, all comprehension, we are allowing the minds of people to become closed and void of sensible judgement, and nations to become insular, less tolerant, less respectful to their neighbours and the world. Margins are drawn, fences to hold back reasonable debate are installed and guarded by those whose hearts are dipped in the black ink of old belief; too these tarnished souls, the frontier gained is enough, to the rest of us, the new age has proved we no longer live on the fringes, that there should be No Borders.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Alice In Chains, Rainier Fog. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are dominated by our surroundings, the seemingly never-ending flatness and the scene in which mountains meet the oceans, all take their toll on the minds who see and inhabit such views; when the examination of what it provides in the way of art looms large and almost predatory upon the senses, a wolf that seeks both shelter and food and finding both in plentiful supply.

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(438 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Paul McCartney, Egypt Station. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a peculiar sense of events in which the world of Paul McCartney, one of the absolute legends of popular music, can be seen as a divisive figure, the music being torn one way, lovingly respected the other; both sides claiming victory, both sides swaying the argument that Time has either been kind, or has started to wane down the years, like a clock that was always on show on a mantlepiece, always keeping the owners alert to the day’s events.

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

Paul Simon, In The Blue Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

 

The microphone is often primed for the sound of a hero standing by to record their own particular version of history, waiting for the neon light to blaze with the motto of the scared text, recording in process. Recording after many takes is to be expected, producer’s, engineers, the band, the public, all deserve the very best that can be attained, the beauty of the moment and the illusion of the first-take wonder, all comes with the definition of what is recorded, what is set down, and what makes the listener believe long after those songs may have faded from memory.

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(501 words, 1 image, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

In The Lower Tiers.

 

Down

amongst the ground sharers,

the football’s sailing over half raised

hopes and nets, designed

to keep the homeless

leather marbles from entering the gardens

and hitting the post

of gnomes, glass

jaws agape as windows

are bounced and framed

as the cheer from the crowd

is passionately ironic, suitably

in time in the non-league homes

and in this field

of semi dreams

between Waterloo and affluent

Crosby lives a day remembered,

a smile between two rows of teeth,

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(121 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

Eddi Reader, Cavalier. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Cavalier approach, the adventurer lauded as she takes to the stage and sings the sonnets of love, of the knight and the fair, Eddi Reader has been a constant surveyor of the world, she has brought down the arrogant with a scathing song, she has praised the beautiful of opinion and deed and the keepers of the pure hearted with a tune so devastatingly pure that it outweighs even the most sought after of precious stones. Ms. Reader is not one for the Cavalier, her words and music and never high-handed, never careless, but one in which the exploration and the voyage are full of the introspective and the enjoyment of the considered approach.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The Blackkklansman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Ryan Eggold, Topher Grace, Jasper Paakkonen, Michael Buscemi, Paul Walter Hauser, Ashlie Atkinson, Alec Baldwin, Isaiah Whitlock Jr, Damaris Lewis, Ato Blankson-Wood, Corey Hawkins, Robert John Burke, Brian Tarantina, Arthur J. Nascarella, Ken Garito, Frederick Weller, Robert John Burke, Dared Wright, Faron Salisbury, Ryan Preimesberger, Harry Belafonte, Gina Belafonte.

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