The Vincent Burke Trio: 10 By 3. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is such that to retreat to a comfortable space, to feel the warmth of fire that flickers in time with your heartbeat and to have a sound playing in your soul from the system of your choice, is not just an act of pleasure, it is a recommended pursuit of self-care; and when the music is the pace at which we set our personal clocks to, in which we find our rhythm aligns with the pulse of a discerning universe, then we know we are in the presence of masters.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

My Life Story: Loving You Is Killing Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

One of the issues of unconditional love is knowing that if you don’t retain some semblance of identity, you could find yourself submerged, engulfed by the personality of the other; it is a fundamental understanding that people think of as part of their own life story, the sentence driven in a scream of independence, “Loving You Is Killing Me”.

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

The Artful Dodger. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis, Maia Mitchell, Damon Herriman, Luke Carroll, Vivienne Awosoga, Damien Garvey, Lucy-Rose Leonard, Tim Minchin, Kim Gyngell, Nicholas Burton, Susie Porter, Albert Latailakepa, Miranda Tapsell, Brigid Zengeni, Aljin Abella, Huw Higginson, Jessica De Gouw, Tom Budge, Michael Sheasby, Ezekiel Simat, Stephen Ryan, Justin Smith, Jude Hyland, Hal Cumpston, Nicholas Hope, Maua Fuifui, Finn Treacy, Andrea Demetriades, Fayssal Bazzi, Steve Morris, Finnian James, Nocholas Cassim.

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(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Green Day: Saviors. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Life’s a riot when the world is in flames, for the urge to rebel and beat down the doors of every major institution, to ransack and remove from the super-rich the means of influence is what boils the blood, and yet we must be wary of those we proclaim as saviours, as the angels of mercy who act with the grin and the sleight of hand and offer us words and possible actions, whilst not actually providing the sustenance of existence in the new world they have planned out in the back of their minds.

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(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Alice Di Micele: Interpretations Vol 1. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We must be resolute in our pursuit of being unique, even in the way we are guided by the voices of others, we must at all costs seek to stamp our own authority on what came before with matchless rarity, a dominating flavour that should be seen to all who observe as an exceptionality, as explosive as uncommon as a star entering its supernova stage just as we happen to look to the heavens.

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(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: Dark Rainbow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Somewhere over the rainbow there stands a pot of gold, but beware you don’t follow the wrong natural marvel in the sky, be cautious of the colours that slowly fade to black, because what is more valuable than an ingot taken from a pot and guarded by some unearthly creature, is the vessel released once you follow the Dark Rainbow, the one that Dorothy Gale herself would have had a finer time in awe of; especially if she had the opportunity to be thrust into the path of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes’ new and generously sublime offering, Dark Rainbow.

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

Dot Dash: 16 Again. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the midst of the eternal grumble by those who didn’t make the most of their youth, to be 16 Again is an emotional declaration that we can mostly all agree with as we look to the moments where our mistakes are magnified, and our missed opportunities regretted to the point of exhaustion.

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(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Fran Ashcroft: The Songs That Never Were. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

All that never was alludes us, not because it hasn’t been acknowledged, but because it has been carefully constructed so it might allude us, never making itself clear until we are ready to have our souls rocked by the revelation and the passion that strides into our lives with confidence and no illusion.

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

Kit Derrick: Hush. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are a collection of stories that reside in time, occasionally finding our paths careering into the orbits and narrative of others to whom we may not have interacted with before, until a day of reckoning comes out of the blue. It is a crash, an accident waiting to happen, and the outcome can send shockwaves through every sphere of influence and relationship that we all once held dear.

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

Doctor Who: Time War 5 – Cass. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Emma Campbell-Jones, Sonny McGann, Nadia Albina, Gareth Armstrong, Nicholas Boulton, Nicholas Briggs, Michael Chance, Ian Cunningham, Indigo Griffiths, Jaye Griffiths, Grieg Johnson, Simon Shepherd, Homer Todiwala.

In all of space and time in which the Great British public have been entertained and engaged by the mysterious and enigmatic being from Gallifrey, there are a number of shocks reveals that assure the series, whether on television or in audio format, retains its loyal fanbase that one moment we all wish for, the surprise that keeps the tale blowing us away and allows that little shriek of former childhood to be heard as we revel in the moment and just what it could mean.

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(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)