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Moorgate: Inside/Outside. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jonathan Aris, Lorne MacFadyen, Lizzy Watts, Tyger Drew-Honey, Matt Addis, Joanna Brooks, Jessica Dennis, Paul Panting, Alistair McGowan, Barkha Bahar.

National tragedies have a habit of slowly fading from the memory over time, not least of all because those directly involved in the disaster will themselves succumb to the passing of time, but it is because of nature; we as citizens can carry placards in anger, we can weep in unison at the senselessness of the catastrophe, we can rage and demand tougher actions to keep people safe, and we will seek retribution against the one person we might hold responsible…even if it defined to have been caused by simple misfortune, or the most unfortunate of mistakes.

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

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Rainy Day Confessions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Do we lay in the sun and think of the times we desperately wanted to relieve our conscious, to absolve the sins of our creation, or do we wait for the moments in which the mood depends on melancholy, when we wish to match the weather’s appearance by admitting to the faults in our souls and the declarations of our heart? An assertion on a grassy patch of ground as the temperature rises and the sun lays directly overhead, or the Rainy Day Confessions that frame time with a sizeable revelation.

Captain Of The Lost Waves: Rainy Day Confessions. Album Review. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham: Big Blue Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Artists that can, and willingly do so, change the trajectory of their sound in one jaw dropping moment, are to be treasured, and whilst some will be confounded from the alteration of direction from the Progressive to the raw emotion that Blues conveys, in Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham’s brand new release, Big Blue Sky, the sense of open appreciation is as expansive as the sound of the handsome vocals, and the drama that such an unobstructed view can maintain, is to be heralded and understood for the ferocity that can come bursting out of nature’s panoramic landscape in one fleeting second.

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(429 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Sky A: Labyrinths. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Art creates art. A person can write a short story, present it to a small gathering of friends one evening, and within a few months one of the attendees could have written a novel based on the emotion and meaning of the offering gifted as a moment of light entertainment.

It is a direct response to the way the mind works, finding meaning and direction in the Labyrinths of the mind, the sparks of neurons connecting that lead us away from the gruesome fear of the Minotaur, and instead count the threads of the strings that lead to freedom of thought and expanded art.

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(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Sykofant: Red Sun. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Many are drawn to the music created by Progressive Rock bands because it boldly expands on the narrative that comes with life; the pop song has its place with its repeated chorus and catchy delivery and momentary diversion, and even rock itself plays a part in musical appreciation However, the art of the Progressive movement is in its ability to weave with patience a world in which fiction expands far beyond the short structure and deliver an insight into the human ability to bring forth a lengthy discourse of virtuosity and beauty to the lives of the everyday and the people caught by the chronicles and storylines conceived.

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(328 words, 1 image, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Bob Bradshaw: Live In Boston. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To step out of your usual routine is to explore a world of possibilities, it is to live rather that exist, and when we have the belief within our souls that along the unpredicted route we may find an adaption to our song, that our way of thought once dominated by habitual standards, can blossom further and with great effect on those we seek to entertain and inspire.

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

Hannah Wicklund: Live At The Troubadour. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Imagine being able to witness an entire room perfectly entranced by a performer. It doesn’t have to be a large arena, nor a parlour where several people are rapt in the gaze of a poet, unconsciously flirting with the master of the ode, but somewhere in between, somewhere that resonates with the heartbeat of a music fan, a place where history was so often made, where photographers held their breath waiting for that one perfect moment…that is the position where you yourself as the witness lose the awareness of your soul and are captivated by the unfolding scene before you.

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(448 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Only Child: Holy Ghosts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We can dismiss the paranormal with a wave of a hand, but that doesn’t mean we don’t see ghosts out of the corner of our eye, that on the streets we walk, the shops we use, the venues we spend our free time in, these are the relics of hallowed and the sacred spectres of every decision, every moment of life, is forever seen from our point of view; and these Holy Ghosts, these often blessed, melancholic, passionate reminders are viewed with what could be seen as a heady mixture of sorrow, of purity, and the spiritually honoured.

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(478 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Don Felder: The Vault – Fifty Years Of Music. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What the vault offers us is security, that our valuables, those precious treasures we hold dear, are in a safe place, strong enough to withstand the bitterest of blows from friends and former allies alike, that the combination of memories associated with these trinkets we have gained through knowledge and hard work are, and always be protected…until the time comes when are ready to open the door and place the contents before the world at large.

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(442 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

The Damn Truth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One man might pronounce with rhetoric that he hungers to have what Canada can offer, but there is one thing guaranteed that he will never be able to lay his hands on, and that is The Damn Truth.

One of Canada’s most electrifying bands, The Damn Truth, once more come full throttle to the listener’s attention with their new self-titled studio album, and it is a release that fans of the Montreal band will no doubt salivate over as the immensity of the sound pounds at the ears and the soul like a hammer against the bells of St. Jospeh’s Oratory, the iconic domed building adding a vibrancy in the imagination to the effect the band have had on the rock genre since they blazed on to the scene with Dear In The Headlights.

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