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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.

Green Day: Saviors. Album Review. full post

(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.

Alice Di Micele: Interpretations Vol 1. Album Review. full post

(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.

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

(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.

Dot Dash: 16 Again. Album Review. full post

(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.

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

(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.

Kit Derrick: Hush. Book Review. full post

(437 words, 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.

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

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

The Miserable Rich: Overcome. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Until it happens to us, we can never be sure how we would triumph or yield to that which we seek to make approaches to in restoring a friendship that had been allowed to falter, or one that had been broken by time; how we Overcome our own dystopian grievances and turn back the clock in order to move forward is very much up to the presence of empathy and how your soul requires peace and adventure with those who understand you better than anyone else in the world.

The Miserable Rich: Overcome. Album Review. full post

(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

False Tracks: Hymn For Terror. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The pulpit is always on hand for the false declaration raised to the dark skies from the shaking fist and the determined growl of the priest more in tune with trembling the souls of the unenlightened than it is for soothing words from those whose words are placed with care before the crowd and urging the truth to be dispensed as they sing Hymns For Terror and odes and to human joy.

False Tracks: Hymn For Terror. Album Review. full post

(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Ignis Absconditus: Golden Horses Of A Dying Future. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The pained, the melancholic, and the theatrical have many heroes, it is the gift of feeling empathy that sees such fighters of a resistance to the boldly beige and the fawning styles of the dull routine which assures a kind of victory for the moral supporters of expression.

For freedom to express desire and wit, to choose understanding pain rather than riding over it roughshod because it makes you feel uncomfortable, we must utilise empathy as a truth, that it not the same as sympathy, but a separate and living beast which sniffs out the cruel and fiercely underdeveloped.

Ignis Absconditus: Golden Horses Of A Dying Future. Album Review. full post

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