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Robin Trower: Come And Find Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The great survivor of the Psychedelic Rock era, one of the true godfathers of guitar’s sweet embrace as a means of expression and conveyer of emotions, Robin Trower’s continual presence at the heart of the music is to be admired and celebrated, and the fact that he prodigiously focuses his attention on giving his audience his all is nothing short of fantastic, and one in which his new album, Come And Find Me, adds yet again a figure of respectable insight to the application of the art he is credited rightly as being one of the men responsibility for its accessibility.

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(424 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

We The Young Strong. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


Cast: Poppy Gilbert, Calvin Demba, Finlay Paul, Ruby Bentall, Abbigail Weinstock, Kiki May, Jenny Funnell, Paul Hinton, Abi McLoughlin, Tom Alexander.

The warning from history is not so much to be wary of certain political ideologies, but instead to shun those who wield the power and authority with charisma to pull in and manipulate the youth whose minds are easily swayed in the face of deprivation and neglect.


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(523 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Anita Dobson, Jonny Green, Max Parker, Thalia Dudek, Stefan Haines, Belinda Owusu, Tom Storey, Stephen Love, Robert Strange, Nicholas Briggs, Evelyn Miller, Charles Sandford, Lucas Edwards, Caleb Hughes, Nadine Higgin, William Ellis.

In a timely reflection on the use of A.I. in the 21st Century, the ethics of appropriation of personal data and biometrics by governments, and the misuse, indeed theft of the individual artists work to train the aspects of artificial intelligence, years of authorship and writing stolen in what can be seen as a monumental reckless abandonment of ethics; so the opening episode of the new series of Doctor Who, The Robot Revolution casts its eye on an old favourite theme, the forgoing of the human existence and spirit in favour of the possibly oppressive, the creeping evil of binary A.I.

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

Yellowjackets: Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Rikki, Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samatha Hanratty, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Steven Krueger, Sarah Desjardins, Lauren Ambrose, Hilary Swank, Jenna Burgess, Nia Sondaya, Ella Purnell, Elijah Wood, Simone Kessell, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Keeya King, Nicole Maines, Anisa Harris, Silvana Estifanos, Vanessa Prasad, Jeff Holman, Joel McHale.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Coming 2 America. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Shari Headley, John Amos, Nomzamo Mbatha, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, Clint Smith, KiKi Layne, Wesley Snipes, Teyna Taylor, Bella Murphy, Akiley Love, Paul Bates, Louie Anderson, James Earl Jones, Rotimi, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Colin Jost, Kevin T. DeWitt, Luenell, Rodney Perry, Michael Blackson, Rick Ross, Garcelle Beauvais, Vanessa Colon, Janette Colon, Morgan Freeman, Gladys Knight.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Bell Barrow: CoreCore Pulp. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The flesh of any art should always be ripe, ready to consume, appealing to the eye and one that draws you in to see below the surface, wanting to devour the core, to drain the pulp and squeeze the very life out of it so that you can feel the soul being refreshed; much like the attraction of a succulent fruit on offer in a grocers shop, we are pulled in by the vision, no matter what the underneath may contain.

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

Rock Out: Let’s Call It Rock ‘N’ Roll. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rock in all its form is not just a varying degree of sound and sub genres, it is an expression of underlaying anger shrouded with beauty, it is the death of boredom, the extinguishing of the beige, and the erasing of languid tedium. In the heat of this beating communication the pulse raises, the fire that was on the verge of being stubbed out, suddenly reignites because of the infectious sound that hits us hard in the face with a slap, and holds us with the ferocity of love; and whilst some might exclaim it as noise, those souls caught in its incredible crossfire can only say Let’s Call It Rock ‘N’ Roll.

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(378 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Oisin Hassan: Be Free, Like A Bird. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Freedom is an illusion in our modern day society, only in our thoughts can we truly be at rest from the constant attack on our souls, on our beliefs, and even then the powers that be will always find a way to turn you into a criminal; the thought police, so envisioned by the great George Orwell, are only ever a step away from complete control.

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(382 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Miss Scarlet. Series Five. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kate Phillips, Tom Durant-Pritchard, Cathy Belton, Paul Bazely, Simon Ludders, Evan McCabe, Tim Chipping, Felix Scott, Amy Marston, Paul Thornley, Nitin Ganatra, Lucy Liemann, Stephen Hartley, Stephen Boxer, Karl Theobald, Andrej Sepetkovski, Joseph May, Paul Leonard Murray, Rebecca Collingwood, Ian Hughes, Paul Lacoux, Petar Zekavica, Milos Pantic, Brian Bovell, Vahidin Prelic, Milan Cucilovic, Ivana Adzic, Milan Milosavljevic, Branislav Zeremski, Robin Weaver, Anna Wilson-Jones, David Sturzaker, Lindsay Bennett-Thompson, Nikola Surbanovic, Filip Radovanovic, Joakim Tasic.

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(483 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Headphone Jacks: Discipline. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What we miss is Discipline in every avenue of life, it is not a matter of authoritarian control but a state of being that oversees our potential, the person we can be if we master both chaos and consistency as one equal partner, if we can feel the inspiration and creation in one visual exercise of unregulated ambition.

For the foursome that make up the Finnish band Headphone Jacks, Jaakko Anttonen, J-P Herlevi, Riku-Pekka, Aleksi Lappalainen, Discipline is the product of what many would consider an anarchic affair of finding a beat in session, but which actually is the depth of feeling given space to treat the individuality of the moment and incorporate it into a dramatic group event.

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(391 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)