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Simon Thacker & Justyna Jablonska. Songs Of The Roma. Album Listen.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Traditional music doesn’t get the understanding that it truly deserves, especially from the mass market pop driven world that inhabits the minds of many who don’t see beyond their borders for inspiration; and as a reaction to that it can be seen as a force of mystery, in some cases alienating, and perhaps grounded in ancient beliefs that are simply unwelcome to a sense of the modern ear.

Penguin. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Deirdre O’Connell, Theo Rossi, Clancy Brown, Carmen Ejogo, Daniel J. Watts, David H. Holmes, Michael Kelly, Myles Humphus, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kenzie Grey, Robert Lee Leng, Hunter Enery, Michael Zegan, Jared Abrahamson, James Madio, Tess Soltau, Joshua Bitton, Jessie Pinnick, Daren Donofrio, Scott Cohen, François Chau, Ade Otukoya, Craig Walker, Ben Cook, Aleska Palladino, Mark Strong, Con O’Neill, Ryder Allen.

Midsomer Murders: Dressed To Kill. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Claire Hingott, Felix Kai, Tessie Orange-Turner, Stewart Wright, Nigel Lindsay, Baxter Westby, LJ Johnson, Sophie Stone, Ace Bhatti, Suzanne Packer, Nichola McAuliffe, Isabel Shaw.

Murder is a drag, but lying through your teeth about another’s illness to gain support for a holiday can be seen as a crime more personal; so Dressed To Kill, the last episode of the 23rd series of the addictive Midsomer Murders series would have you believe.

Jacqui Dankworth: Windmills. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The evocative nature that captures serenity when we glimpse perhaps through train windows that idly go past an untouched memory of what Britain’s south east landscape was famous for, is a timely reminder that not everything in life has to be littered with the fast and the furious, that taking time is a virtue, that surveying the scene of windmills turning and hop gatherers working is not a bygone mystery, but very much a part of gives its people the sense of a continuance, an order to reflect rather than always consume.

Brothers Of Metal: Fimbulvinter. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you want to be immersed within a true epic, then the truth of it is that few do it better, or with as much class, as those that inhabit the world of the Scandinavian tradition, the sense of the orally delivered tale, the darkness of the night given a solemn explosion of intrigue as the fires stand guard and the expressions of the listeners, the brothers in metal and armour, remain stoic and undaunted as they take on the guise of heroes in their dreams.

Until I Kill You. Television Drama Review.

Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, Shaun Evans, Amanda Wilkin, Sallie Harmsen, Kevin Doyle, Cory Balmer, Michael Mullen, Jack Franklin, Lucy Thackeray, Steve Edge, Stephanie Street, Matthew Aubrey, Sophie Ford, Gerald Tyler, Clare Foster, William Brand, Laura Morgan, Alice Barclay, Simon Harrison, Claire-Louise Cordwell, Azuka Oforka, Dean Rehman.

The actions of evil men defy comprehension to the overwhelmingly vast majority of the world, but their deeds have far reaching ramifications, and far beyond what any reasonable person could ever understand, or expected to ever even tolerate, let alone be afraid, terrified of just living life.

Lions In The Street: Moving Along. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you can use a title of a James Cagney film within your own band name, then it is surely to be assured that the ignition point of delivery is set high and is always on point.

Lions In The Street come roaring out from the studio fully loaded with their album Moving Along in their arsenal, the quivers full of pride, and the swagger of the music rampaging through the long grass with full and frank effect.

Sarah Blasko: I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What others may perceive as a hill to get over is for many something greater, an entity that looms large and with all the reverence of pedestal in which the most celebrated are often found to be placed upon and which is arguably a presence to which if achieved when scaled is a monument to human persistence and glory.

It might not be Mount Kosciuszko, the image of Everest doesn’t loom large over the project, Mont Blanc and Ben Nevis are nowhere to be seen, but as Sarah Blasko steps once more out of the studio and armed with all the necessary equipment proclaims with honesty and determination, I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain.

Agatha All Along. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Patti LuPone, Debra Jo Rupp, Aubrey Plaza, David A Payton, Okwui Okpokwasili, Paul Adelstein, Abel Lysenko.

For many the House of Stan, the world of Marvel, has rightly been criticised for some of its output since the magnificent and overwhelming end to the Infinity saga, the damage done from the weight of expectation perhaps has been more defining than just how intelligent and interlocked the previous decade had been.