Jupiter Falls, Revolution. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The Revolution will not be televised, it will barely even get advertising space for such things would never be allowed and yet for Leeds sensation Jupiter Falls, the Revolution has already begun in earnest, the uprising has gathered pace and through massive endeavour and sheer quality, Revolution has been unleashed.

Happy Singing Band, Yung Casserole. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Up-coming Liverpool group, Happy Singing Band may be arguably verging into a unique position in the cities musical landscape but it is one that is well-deserved if listening to the hearty psychological mix that resides in their lengthy but creative song Yung Casserole.

The glare and the dramatic stance that is undertaken when a nuclear like fusion takes place between the energetic feel of grunge respectful nod to freebase Jazz is mixed with the outpouring of wanting to take the Progressive ambience to a dirtier, more beautifully constructed level; a new variation on soup for the masses but one that has been intelligently designed and full of warmth, even if it might take some time to get used to.

Sarah Beatrice, Desire. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Fire and Desire can go hand in hand; one is useless without the other, for in the flames of passion and the passionate neither can survive long in the open air if not gelled together.

Sarah Beatrice understands this completely as the Liverpool singer creative talent finds that her first single Fire is an uncomplicated lover into which entwine her words to and in which Desire is a natural progression. Unlike many other desires that take place throughout the world every day, the quality of Sarah Beatrice’s vocals and feeling for the words she is offering makes sure that desire is permanent; it becomes a deep seated adoration and love.

My Low Self-Esteem.

The loud room, empty of everything

but the silent chatter of a million voices

all asking the same ridiculous

questions time and time again

I have come to understand as pointing blame,

apportioning censure, charge and guilt

my way because it is so much easier to

attribute condemnation to the man

who will only fight back when

someone he loves is in danger

but who will happily absorb any

bruising cut you snake out on his skin;

for the silent chatter that grows and fans out across the empty room

The Avengers: The Lost Episodes Volume 4 Box Set, A Change Of Bait. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anthony Howell, Julian Wadham, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Oliver Cotton, Philip Bretherton, Andrew Dickens, Daniel O’Meara, Dan Starkey, Karina Fernandez, Michael Chance.

The insurance business, like any other involving risk and money, is always one that has both its admirers and its detractors. To some who feel as though they have been placed into a corner and had their livelihoods threatened by such practices, the steepness of premiums, of the loss that could be potentially involved is something that rankles with the fury of a volcano but to which hardly can ever be done; after all everybody needs insuring for something.

Simon Armitage, Walking Away: Further Travels With A Troubadour On The South West Coast Path. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The poet is always looking for new things to write about, new boundaries in which to cross, divide and focus a pin prick in time upon; for to challenge the muse is perhaps the main reason for getting up in the morning and putting the best possible foot forward. This can be quite a challenge when placed against the sometimes firm, sometimes loose under the weight of introspection, of testing yourself against walking from Minehead to Land’s End and doing a poetry performance every night along the way; there surely are better muses than making sure you don’t walk into something unsightly in Devon.

Broken Age (PS4/PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5 out of 10

Broken Age is a story driven point-and-click third-person adventure puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and PS Vita. Broken Age is the first graphic adventure game from Tim Schafer in 16 years who is known for his work on such classic games within the genre as Day of the Tentacle and Psychonauts. He was the project lead on the original release of Grim Fandango which he stated cost around $3 million to develop and he also lead the project of remastering the game with Double Fine Productions. It has been quite a long time since Broken Age began as a Kickstarter campaign from February 9th 2012 looking for crowd funding which was so successful in how it was received by audiences that the campaign funded the initial figure of $400,000 in just over 8 hours; eventually greatly surpassing it to reach an astounding funding total of $3,336,371 by the middle of March 2012 from a total of 87,142 backers.

Raelism, Back To The Battlefield. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The upbeat world of Electronica may be a far away dream in a world that seems forever standing on the precipice of the unknown battle ahead, the abyss yawing deep below as the careful shuffle of cramped feet dislodges more concrete rocks and stones that so far have kept us from falling.

The arena in which light tries to shine some semblance of glory within, the mutual adoration between man and machine that isn’t born out of fire or war but as an extension to humanity’s ability to make music on instruments other than that considered the norm and into this arena steps once more Raelism and his follow up to Freedom Within The Prison, the exotic and fortune favoured Back To The Battlefield.

Ragz Nordset, Don’t You Forget.

Everybody leaves eventually, especially artists of one form or another. If the call of a new pasture in which to paint never calls then how does new and exciting work happen, the imagination after all is only as strong as the individual and no artist can imagine a waterfall crashing down upon shaped boulders if they have never seen a water drop.

Some leave too soon, some perhaps too late in the day but neither really ever write a song, paint a picture, or capture the emotion of leaving somewhere they love unless they have a poet’s mind dwelling deep in their soul.

The Avengers: The Lost Episodes Volume 4. Kill The King. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Julian Wadham, Anthony Howell, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Dan Starkey. Lobo Chan, Richard Cordery, Ozzie Yue, Lourdes Faberes, Karina Fernandez, Adrian Lukis, Elizabeth Morton, Matthew Cottle.

 

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, especially when it is the prime target for an assassination attempt on British soil of a foreign head of state.

The fourth box set of the highly popular adaptations of The Avengers lost episodes series sees both Dr. Keel and John Steed take a bit of a back seat in the opening chapter and one that with all the best will in the world feels as though it is still feeling the after effects of the falling out between the two characters at the end of Volume Three.