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Firewind: Stand United. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst many naturally gravitate to the Scandinavian and northern European countries for their metal fix and slice of branded enthralment, the fact that Greece continues to supply such a discerning supply of groups and minds that tear into the genre with genuine care, responsibility and freedom, is testament to united front the players and bands present when counter performing their northern brethren.

Bananarama: Glorious – The Ultimate Collection. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Before the Spice Girls and Girls Aloud and their calls to arms via the slickness of the then modern media presentation, came a trio of women who truly understood the message and the reality of 1980s Britain and who would achieve success over the following 40 years without the need to fall back on the appearance of fashionable exploitation of their younger fans.

Hollow Coves: Nothing To Lose. Album Listen.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When you have Nothing To Lose the world suddenly becomes one of clarity and freedom.

It is with overwhelming sadness that we see that clarity and freedom now as one of a loss of the physical aspect, the photo albums that no longer hold pictures of those who made us laugh or feel safe in their company, the empty shelves that failed to hold to treasures of the imagination, the friendships formed in the ether with no corporeal measure of presence, we are in a sense purely ghosts in a suit of flesh waiting for the emptiness of modern life to cease.

The Patient. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Carrell, Domhnall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Andrew Leeds, Laura Niemi, Alan Blumenfeld, Alex Rich, David Alan Grier.

The measure of our guilt is such that we no longer seek out absolution and forgiveness from a member of the clergy, we seek enlightenment to the course of our actions from someone who can glean through analysis and psychotherapy that our engagements are not our responsibility; the cop out of our times that leads to blaming others and leading to a discordant view of reality.

Asteroid City. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Carell, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Liv Schreiber, Aristou Meehan, Ethan Josh Lee, Sophia Lillis, Matt Dillon, Tony Revolori, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Ella Faris, Gracie Faris, Willan Faris, Deanna Dunagan, Vandi Clark, Pedro Placer, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson.

John Jenkins: The Reason. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If something doesn’t fit, you make room it wherever you can; nothing should ever be discarded or found to be unwanted, the point of life is not minimalism, but to crowd every sector of your life and space of your being with memories and recollections, of memorials to those we have loved and sadly lost.

Leaves’ Eyes: Myths Of Fate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The enduring mythologies of life are such that we sorely forget their traditional ways of capturing an audience at our peril; for there is more to be found within our realms than many give credit too, or even acknowledge. For the hearts that dare suggest nothing can come of legend, have not had their soul inflamed by the sound of the saga ringing in their ears and digging deep into their own D.N.A., for in the epic there is an abundance of life, and it springs eternally from the fountain of the symphonically powerful.

Paloma Faith: The Glorification Of Sadness. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The cathartic nature of art is such that in the worst moments of our life we can find something in the ether or a structure created by hands in tune with grief, melancholy, or even the desperation of objectionable misery, that will raise the spirit, give meaning to the time in such a way that it aids forgiveness of our own mistakes, as much as it furthers the embrace of clemency with those who sought to destroy us.

Steve Hackett: The Circus and The Nightwhale. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Fifty years ago the world awoke to the sound of what many describe as the greatest concept album of all time, at a stroke the ability to place an entire Progressive narrative down on a double album was presented in such a way that to this day The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway almost has a spell of mysticism surrounding it, an air of Progressive theology that has taken on its own place in time that few albums of its genre can match or emulate.

True Detective: Night Country. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Christopher Eccleston, John Hawkins, Dervla Kirwan, Anna Lambe, L’xeis Diane Benson, Aka Niviâna, Joel D. Montgrand, Owen McDonnell, Erling Eliasson.

Although it is unwritten, a good detective will know instinctively when the need to turn away from the letter of the law is good for the community, when the reveal of the truth will play into the hands of those with evil intent and not the victims who suffered under the yoke of oppression, be it corporate or personal.