Imaginary Creatures, Danse Macabre. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The dance of death eventually shrouds us all but along the way to be invited to the ball, to be guided and led by the hand to the Danse Macabre is to be enlightened and shown the way of a new breed of Progressive thinking.

For virtual band Imaginary Creatures, being trapped forever on a type of celluloid is not an option, the expression of music that is aching to be released, to be heard in full on their second album Danse Macabre, is one that is liberal and allows the perception that often clouds pre-conception to be disbursed and scattered with the wind, taking the dust of prejudice with it and it is an absolute joy to witness.

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

John Jenkins And That Sure Thing, Honeymoon Hangover. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To trust someone to carry out your vision is perhaps the biggest compliment anyone can pay to an artist. It is the acknowledgement that what you hear in your head, what you have written down, perhaps sweated and toiled over and lost many a night’s sleep through, is being created in the way that you know it should be carried out; it is a privilege many arguably don’t quite understand in the modern age as they try to impose their own agenda into the art.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Martha Reich, God’s Eyes/ I’d Rather Be Surprised. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Martha Reich really knows how to grab the attention. Whether she is performing live in front of wide eyed strangers or coming through the ether via the stereo, Martha Reich has it all going on and it is down to a voice that just somehow gets more captivating each time you are privileged to hear it.

Under the banner of Peace Harvest, 2014’s God’s Eyes and I’d Rather Be Surprised resonate with clarity and musical precision, they offer a huge insight into the thoughts of a woman that many this side of the vast ocean may not have heard of but to whom so much should be written about.

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

A Name Such As This.

If I could call out but one name for all time,

I would make sure it was yours

for the sound of it beats the others in stature and rhyme

as it sings, floats through the breeze, moaning as it soars.

 

I would call out your name in pleasure and in pain,

I would call it for all it is worth

for it is the only word that both drives me on and drives others insane

it is the sweetest most beautiful name of all in creation and Earth.

 

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(153 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)

The Death Of The Good Ol’ Boy…

The death of the good Ol’ Boy…

 

…So easily forgotten, a simple statement of fact

but now the Good Ol’ Boy sits

contemplating the empty screen

for hours and knows that this

mocking blinking cursor

that beats as regular as his own heart

is a true reflection of the barren-state

that resides, the complete blank stare

that breathes with heaviness

of a life that was always wrong

and the smile of satisfaction

that the Good Ol’ Boy is dead

inside.

 

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(211 words, estimated 51 secs reading time)

L.A. Songwriter Alexx Calise To Release New Album With Help From Her Fans.

L.A. based musician and songwriter Alexx Calise, the woman behind such musically enlightening and dramatic solo albums such as In Avanti and Morning Pill and one half of the tremendous team that put together the sensational No Vampires In Gilroy, has always been an independent and forthright woman. For the past ten years she has managed to pursue the craft and technique of writing songs that not only hit home with the force of an arrow splitting apart a bull’s eye but also get under the skin of how music in the West Coast can capture the soul with beautiful intensity.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Heather Crosse, Groovin’ At The Crossroads. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Not only is Heather Crosse a girl with a guitar, she is a woman of absolute sterling quality and one whose musical adventure on the highway is certain to have others trailing in her wake and with attitude of allowing the music to blast loud and with purpose.

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(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

GentleFolk, Into The Greenwood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It might just go down as one of the most intelligently written and interesting albums of 2015 and yet the likelihood of it being pick’s leaders embracing Green issues with a healthy grasp of what is actually going on in the environmental world. Yet for GentleFolk’s new album Into The Greenwood, the diversion from the absolute and the real is something of an ear catching piece and one in which is not only musically sound but one that has that rare ability to teach and educate at the same time.

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

Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Television Review (2015).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

 

Cast: Holliday Grainger, Richard Madden, James Norton, Jodie Comer, Howard Ward, Elizabeth Rider, Tony Pritchard, Enzo Cilenti, Ian Peck, Eve Ponsonby, Edward Holcroft, Sebastian Gray, Lee Paul Atkinson, Andrew Cronin, Nick Davies, Lisa Jay Jenkins, Dylan Jones, Callum Luke Lewis, Gavin Lee Lewis, Jamie McKee, Ricky Singh.

 

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(566 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Triathlon.

The modern day Triathlon bypassed the Greeks of old

and their noble thoughts of brotherly love,

instead naked wrestling

was the order in which men were tested;

but is such a hit

in the modern world that thousands take to it

out of sheer desperation

as their country wages war on the ordinary

athlete, swimmer, long distance walker

and they gather their families close

to their hearts and wave goodbye

across crested waves to a world that

doesn’t want them

and wave hello to a continent

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(216 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)