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Ally Venable: Real Gone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The real of our lives is in danger of being forced out by the damage and instability sought by those that practise chaos; normally shrouded in suits and flattering salaries, as they offer sounds that can’t be heard, as they sign off on a lie of art which insults rather than edifies.

The Real Gone kids to whom expressions are found in the beauty of emotional truth are forever being told they have to adhere to a fashion that is neither desirable, nor satisfying; and those suits, they don’t care because they will always find one to whom the nation will be told to swoon at for the sake of publicity and fortune.

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(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom: She Doesn’t Want You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To bring art via a medium that you aren’t necessarily associated with to the fore is to be acknowledged as a success, as an achievement, and yet there will be those who suggest with jealous feelings barely hidden, that to have a skill is to be a master of all; for they will infer that no one is concerned, no friend is bothered, and that the person you want to impress, well She Don’t Want You at all.

Gareth Heesom: She Doesn’t Want You. Single Review. full post

(435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

O’Hooley & Tidow: Cloudheads. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is better to have your head in the clouds than to see the depths of Hell that others will sink to as they chase dreams that are to be acknowledged as misaligned to humanity’s best interests.

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

Endeavour: Exeunt. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Caroline O’Neill, James Bradshaw, Sara Vickers, Abigail Thaw, Jack Bannon, Jack Laskey, Danny Webb, Phil Daniels, Mo Sesay, Brian Pettifer, Will Brown, Christopher Godwin, Victoria Alcock, Meg Kubota, Jo Stone-Fewings, Joseph Macnab, Tomi Ogbaro, Richard Ridings, Laura Branigan, Philip Wright, Jack Hamilton, Ross Green, Rufus Wright.

In the end, everybody must leave for pastures new; only those with unfinished business or the ones that guard the memories and secrets of their fallen comrades remain in vigil.

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

Murph Bower: Juniper. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The cleansing rituals of old have largely been forgotten as we move away from ancestral paths that once guided us, the rites and blessing that once offered us protection as we inhaled its smoke, has now been replaced by a chemical imbalance. We are healthier perhaps, but our souls have become tainted, trapped in a smog not of nature’s power and ritual, the smell of Juniper berries is no longer in the air, it is the taste of compliance and regret.

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(357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

The Far North: Songs For Gentle Souls. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

What lays beyond the outer reaches could be considered sanctuary, but it is only in The Far North that truth reveals the extent of Songs For Gentle Souls and those that wish to see them succeed.

From the ashes of The Fireflys, Lee Wylding has stepped out of the embers and taken on the solo persona of The Far North, a name, a title, a declaration spoken as to the hardiness and world wise effect that the album has on the listener as the music and the soul of the performer combine with ease, sensitivity and fierce tradition.

The Far North: Songs For Gentle Souls. Album Review. full post

(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

C.A.L.I.E: Let Go. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Let Go of the belief that Jazz is not cool.

Whilst the genre didn’t find itself struggling with its identity in much the way that Blues faced as the last century closed its doors on the pre-World War Two musical expressions, Jazz nevertheless did find its way obscured from digging down into a new generations conscious, as other modes of musical transportation took the eyes and ears off the focus of what can be arguably spoken of in positive terms, the true form of free form available to the listener.

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(382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Our Flag Means Death. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Con O’Neill, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher, Kristian Nairn, Samba Schutte, Ewen Bremner, Vico Ortiz, Nat Faxon, Rory Kinnear, Guz Khan, David Fane, Eden Grace Redfield, William Barber-Holler, Leslie Jones, Connor Barrett, Boris McGiver, Fred Armisen, Michael Crane, Theo Darby, Angus Sampson, Nick Kroll, Simone Kessell, Kristen Schaal, Kristen Johnston, Mateo Gallegos, Damien Gerard, Carlos Areliano, Ashna Sharan, Christian Lagadec, Jeff Lorch, Cornelius Peter.

History is but a consecutive set of lies passed off as fact and written down in accordance by historians to dispute at leisure.

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(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Endeavour: Uniform. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Caroline O’Neill, James Bradshaw, Sara Vickers, Abigail Thaw, Kevin McNally, Leo Starr, Richard Hope, Jake Kenny-Byrne, Bill Skinner, Todd Bell, Milo Mackenzie, Shaheen Khan, Ayesha Antoine, Jack Bannon, Michael Keane, Paul Bazely, Simon Harrison, Laurence Spellman, Jack Laskey.

The pieces are coming together, but even when the puzzle is complete, the chances are that the revealed picture will be one that still won’t give all the answers that are being sought by the armchair detective and sofa sleuth alike.

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

Elvis. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thompson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., David Wenham, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Luke Bracey, Dacre Montgomery, Leon Ford, Gary Clark Jr., Yola, Natasha Bassett, Xavier Samuel, Adam Dunn, Alton Mason, Shonka Dukureh, David Gannon, Shannon Sanders, Charles Grounds, Gareth Davies, Chaydon Jay, Nicholas Bell, Josh McConville, Cie Morgan, Charles Allen.

The public face of an enigma is one in which all who profess they knew the figure well, actually understood him even less than the occasional fan.

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(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)