KillaFlaw, Own Way. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

 

The sheer rage and articulate pounding of subtle aggression are never too far from the open wide space inhabited by KillaFlaw and their latest single Own Way.

Own Way is exactly what the musicians in the band do; the niche they have carved out is spectacular enough to warrant more than the one mandatory exclamation mark at the precision made between the beat and the storm. The beat flashes as if a thunderstorm has settled over head and the lightning strike which pulsates every few seconds is but an aperitif to the main show of Gods riding along the crest of the wave to come and the snorting, steaming nostrils of their white charges pushing along the destruction to come.

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

Steve Thompson And The Incidents, Monster. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Monster is always there, it doesn’t need to hide itself away under the bed, nor smirk in the darkness of the closet, the monster is alive where ever it wants to take reign and infect its bleak despondency; it is the prerogative of such things to be visible because we allow them to be.

Beasts rarely come along uninvited, they require a inducement, a temptation to attend the breaking down of barriers between one world and another and in the timely hands of Steve Thompson and the Incidents such a temptation of spirit is forthcoming as Monster slams down with the force of a sledgehammer wielded by a god of thunder.

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(315 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Sarah Beatrice, Fire. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If not for the embrace that Liverpool offers its young and developing talent, it’s doubtful that many of the future musicians and songwriters in the area would get a look in or be able to show just exactly what they can do. For Sarah Beatrice and her first foray into making singles, Fire, is there not to be tamed, beaten or put out as if the quelling of such things are an everyday occurrence; it is more to be celebrated and given breath in the sheer justification of the burgeoning talent that lives in the mind of an admired young performer.

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(331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Ripper Street: Your Father, My Friend. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, David Wilmot, Clive Russell, David Dawson, Josh O’ Connor, Louise Brealey, Anna Burnett, John Heffernan, Leanne Best, Alicia Gerrard, Dean-Charles Chapman, Patrick Molloy, Daniel Fearn, Mairin O’Donovan.

Violence in Whitechapel is not a new phenomenon, nor is the grisly shadow one that has taken residence between the evil carried out by Jack the Ripper and the emergence of the Kray Twins, it is one that that has brewed for centuries and arguably makes the area outside of the walls of the City of London one of the most dynamic and interesting in the whole of the U.K.

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(448 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Gemma Bovery, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier, Niels Schneider, Mel Raido, Elsa Zylberstein, Pip Torrens, Kacey Mottet Klein, Edith Scob, Philippe Uchan, Pascale Arbillot, Marie-Bénédicte Roy, Christian Sinniger, Pierre Alloggia, Patrice Le Mehauté, Gaspard Beaucarne, Marianne Viville.

An obsession with books is not a bad thing, in fact it nearly always leads to enlightenment and knowledge; sometimes though it can lead to living the life of the modern day and the real as if you conducting a performance, especially when people you know exhibit all the signs of a classic book.

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(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Corners.

The wall thankfully is rounded,

after all it is easier to escape the manipulation

you attempt to thrust down my throat,

rolling with the solid tide of plaster

than sitting in a pointed sharp angle

as the verbal putrefaction spoils for a fight.

 

Over the keys a wash comes unbalanced hatred

and like a dictator you ask that all take your side,

and to say nothing, to want the world to move on

away from such madness, the corner you push me into

becomes a rock in which to cling.

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(190 words, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Callaghan, 40 States & Counting E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The waves may crash against the walls and batter the ramparts of an enclosed city standing on the edge of a cliff like suspension but it doesn’t stop the water from seeping in and flooding the walkways and courts with new ideas.

The state of musical excellence, the tsunami of challenge that comes from the vocals of Callaghan is something that even the strongest and most fortified stony heart could not withstand. The crumbling edifice showing the hole in which the story-telling expertise shines through is one in which Callaghan exploits with care and detail and in the 40 States & Counting E.P. it is one that offers a state of mercy and forgiveness, as well a beautiful set of haunting lyrics.

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(347 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Ian Prowse And Pauline Scanlon, Mississippi Beat. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To hear a new Ian Prowse song before the album is ready to be distributed to the world is almost like finding out that during the following year you will have two birthdays and that Merseyside will be granted the independence it so badly requires; some things are beyond expectation.

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

Pyogenesis, A Century In The Curse Of Time. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A nuclear assault on the ears but one carried out with a soft pillow and sense of overwhelming completion, a sense of unhurried labour mixed with the temptation to overthrow any negativity that may be shared in close quarters as yet again Europe’s Heavy Metal and Rock elite show where the natural homes of Britain and America have been going awry for too long. Such is the pounding aural spectacle attached to Pyogenesis’ latest album A Century In The Curse Of Time.

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