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Michael McDermott: Lighthouse On The Shore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The duality of the soul is not a complex argument to understand, the very nature of human existence relies on being able to see both sides of a story, to see through the forces of the darkness and the light, both equal opportunists when it comes claiming the soul of anyone, is to know of the cosmic intent of life itself. Collectively or individually, we are no more the ship cascading on broken waves at sea than we are the guiding beam from the Lighthouse On The Shore, but we are the amalgam of the two, and it is in that where reaction to the rocky times ahead are met with certainty and trepidation at the same time.

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(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Man’s Time. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Robert Glenister, Craig Parkinson, Laura Elphinstone, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Carolyn Pickles, Kem Hassan, Laura Aikman, Jennifer Macbeth, Ash Hunter, Miranda Heath, Brad Morrison, Neil Hobbs, Niall Greig Fulton, Alan Mahon, Jonny Magnanti, Sarah Leigh, Jensen Clayden, Alan Mooney, Bleu Landau, Phoebe Mulhall, Michelle Connolly, Rebecca Scroggs, Jessica Ellerby, Maria Crittell, Gordon Kennedy, Grant Burgin, Alan Turkington, David Sterne, Sam Hoare, Caroline Valdés, Henry Miller.

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(504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Helen Maw: Keepers Of The Sea. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To feel empathy, to understand compassion when you approach art is to know at some point you must have had your heart broken. There in the sweet surrender of the Muse’s voice that sings to you, in amongst the remains of the first breakdown the soul ever suffered, the memory lingers and it is to those sirens of expressions, the sirens who are the Keepers Of The Sea who set the seal on our willingness to feel at all times and give others the opportunity to also be charmed by the sound of waves and song.

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(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Madame Web. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Mercad, Celeste O’Connor, Tahir Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott, Adam Scott, Kerry Bishé, Zosia Mamet, José Maria Yazpik, Kathy-Ann Hart, Josh Drennen, Yuma Feldman.

Seemingly Sony feel as though every character that has stalked the pages of its Marvel acquisition of Spiderman is worthy of being transferred to the silver screen, and whilst the likes of Venom, and even the upcoming appearance of Kraven The Hunter has been widely applauded, and eagerly awaited, but to delve, to perhaps scrape the barrel of transferring comic creation to cinema, content that nobody was asking for, to put on screen someone who was never more than a bit player and give them the widest possible view above several others more inclined to do the genre justice is arguably one reeking of desperation.

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(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Dirt On My Diamonds – Volume 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may be the same story, but art has a way of differentiating between acts, to separate chapters and expressions even with the text and idea being of the same sound and enquiring mind; whilst the concept album may hold the secrets to a storyboard account of a moment stretched out and given flesh, a volume is nuanced, it acknowledges the material created as having a different vein throbbing away majestically inside the body of work, and therefore whilst it occupies the same body as its predecessor, it is an animal of another disposition entirely.

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(395 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Arcadian. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall, Samantha Coughlan, Joe Dixon, Joel Gillman, Daire McMahon.

Like the instant smash hit, A Quiet Place, some films just unexpectedly come along, grab the viewer by soul, and takes them on a ride of horror driven by a unique monster so appealing that you cannot but help wonder just what the back story to their appearance on Earth actually is.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Tom Meighan: Roadrunner. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To feel exhilaration and exhaustion in the aftermath of an album’s completion is one of the great emotional feelings that life can throw at you; to feel not only emboldened, but vitalised as the sweat and destruction of the pre-conceived ideas of how art can influence, guide, and threaten to quicken the pulse to the point where the blood pressure starts to bust machinery, is something to build belief on.

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(317 words, 1 image, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

999: Emergency At The Old Waldorf 1979. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It has often been announced with a kind of venomous fury that Punk is not dead, and quite rightly this argument is replete with a straightforward acknowledgement that the issues that underpinned the anger of its origins are still with us, multiplied by the excesses and demands of a political class out of control, and yet as we look back at the simplicity of the genre at its very heart, its union with other cultures and the listener will notice there is one major force the definition makers forgot; that of the influence of the groups that not only continued after the first great wave, but thrived enough to see the latest contributions from new bands stand alongside the remarkable skills of the older and the established godparents of the time.

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(434 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Pippa Reid-Foster: Undercurrents. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst we might love the big number, the album that is extravagant and wonderfully excessive, the type of recording that has been poured over by each member of the band, and given to shaking the popular press into spreading the gospel according to… we might love the sensationalism that goes along with the uproar, the gossip of perception and the need to be seen not being part of the crowd, what we actually should be doing as much as possible is listening to the Undercurrents, to the sound running underneath, the truth of free flowing feelings and the depth of nuance.

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

Oran: Rebellious Rebirth. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

“Do not go gentle into that good night…”, words written arguably by Britain’s most dominant poet of the 20^th Century, and one that we must pay attention to if we are to be more than a whisper at any point of our life; and one that Scottish singer-songwriter, Oran, complies with charm and grace, and the ferocity of a sun exploding in space, in her brand new debut album, Rebellious Rebirth.

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(364 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)