Dust Bolt: Sound & Fury. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Era’s end, they have to, unless the sound of the universe you are searching for is the crippling regret of entropy and the slow hand clap of performance that sneaks into the set from decay.

It is though what we replace an era with that gives us hope of continuance, of making sure that after the grief of universal upheaval and loss, that we can rebuild in a form that thrills us, guides us, makes us rage and shake our fists at the sky as it falls around us, and makes us want to double down on the love we feel for the world, our home, our reason to be.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

10cc: 20 Years – 1972-1992. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To examine a line from a poem and believe that you can find a meaning to a full life can be misleading, it may offer insight to a moment, to an instant where the writer was overwhelmed by an emotion, but in regards to explaining an entire career, to sit there and insist that a single line can explain everything away, is best preserved in the role of academia and by those to whom can make a living from deciphering a message from a single line of text.

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(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Thunder: Live At Islington. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you are one of the fortunate ones to have witnessed Thunder strike home on stage and whip the crowd into a majestic rock frenzy, one of thought as well as deed, then you just immediately understand that they are rightly lauded as one of Britain’s finest rock acts of the last forty years, and one to whom the public cannot allow to pass by into the shadows without being acknowledged as the ones to host a party, the party of a lifetime.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Thunder: Live At Leeds. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For the fans, that has always been the ethos of Thunder, and their countless live recordings that have been released only for those to whom the sound of the epic has seen them attend gigs under the guise of what can only be described as the ultimate Christmas party; the countless wonderous days and fearless nights that have been captured and distributed are legendary; and yet there are moments that until now have remained almost a secret, not seeing the light of day by the vast majority.

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(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

New Model Army: Unbroken. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What remains unbroken can only lead us to a place of greater appreciation, for in the perpetual reason of consistency lays a conversation uninterrupted and steady, one of stable and secure dependability; and into this realm of even-handed commentary resurfaces the enigmatic shrouded pulse of New Model Army and their brand-new album, Unbroken.

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

The Tourist. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Victoria Haralabidou, Greg Larson, Conor MacNeil, Olwen Fouéré, Francis Magee, Réginal-Roland Kudiwu, Diarmaid Murtagh, Nessa Matthews, Mark McKenna, Nathan Page.

The first series of The Tourist was the kind of instant television hit that had the nation talking, the sun-baked Noir outback of Australia’s dusty landscape acting as the perfect accomplice to the mystery that saw Jamie Dornan’s amnesiac Man search for the answers to his predicament and the salvation in which he comes to understand as his life becomes one of cat and mouse, of damnation.

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(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Lucy Worsley: Lady Killers. Series Three. Radio Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We can discuss crime in its most violent form, that of the act of murder, all day, the subject matter is of a constant interest to many, the chance to play detective with no formal training, offering a conclusion via an opinion, and yet we will only offer measured or emotional thought when it comes to men accused and found guilty of the heinous offence; when it comes to discussing women who fall from grace we often gloss over it with platitudes or the observance that the act itself was one of subversion of gender.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Belinda Carlisle: Decades – Volume 2. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A story of two halves, a tale of two distinctive eras made whole by the subject matter’s intense drive and personality welding them together, connecting them by the sound of a voice so powerful that the listener cannot but help but be entranced by the siren of a Californian call, of transferring an energy from surfside punk pop to a queen whose majesty is reflected in the second half of her career and so expertly, so boldly envisaged in the release of the box set Belinda Carlisle: Decades – Volume 2.

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(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Kiki Dee: The Ariola And EMI Years. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The unexpected treasure trove unearthed is more valuable to the finder than the understanding that there was always a map filled with detail and a full manifest attached to the story passed down in full regaled explanation.

For the fans of one of the U.K.s much loved survivors and stars of the ever changing music business, the chance to revel again in a new box set that celebrates her work during a certain period is one of undeniable pleasure and intriguing possibilities for the heart to follow, and for the soul to feel the strength that emanates from Kike Dee as third in the in depth look into her career continues with the impressive The Ariola And EMI Years.

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(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Matthew Robb: History Before It Happens. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

There are those who will adamantly, and with great pride at their insight, insist that the world we live in is a simulation, that we should understand what is occurring and taking shape in front of our eyes because it has already been decreed, that history is just a program given shape and depth and then inserted into what we perceive as the present day…History Before It Happens in the making.

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(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)