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The Cold Stares: The Southern. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Unashamedly, unapologetically, modestly, The Cold Stares return to the music listener’s attention with an album that opens up the sense of looking at your roots, of taking the aural photograph album and dusting off the memories to find what is essentially home; the place perhaps not where you believe you have found paradise, but that world where you first cut your teeth as your family, for good or bad, instructed you on the fundamentals of life, the foundations of your time on Earth.

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(370 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Quantum Leap: Series Two (2024). Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Raymond Lee, Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Nanrisa Lee, Ernie Hudson, Georgina Reilly, Eliza Taylor, Peter Gadiot, Alice Kremelberg, Susan Diol, James Frain, Wyatt Parker, Josh Dean, Mehrnaz Mohammadi, Connor Esterson, Lou Diamond Philips, Aaron Abrahms.

Time and Time again we have the opportunity to see science fiction as more than just setting stories as a gateway to romance, the inevitable conclusion that seems to drive the genre by displaying humanity as more than just a conduit, but nothing less than at times irrational.

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

Kalandra: A Frame Of Mind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

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Kalandra are a special breed of band, musicians, haunting lyrics and melodies that flow with the breeze that has combined two distinct planes of existence, one that dominates the heart and the mind, and by doing so they have understood A Frame Of Mind few of us are able to explore with certainty and belief.

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(427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Jim Eannelli: Just Deserts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the act of ferocity, we can detect the bright spark of creation, a universe after all rarely starts with a whimper, but with a noise that should anyone be able to withstand the blast, the ignition, then the roar would be as spectacular as the light show, as the cosmic fireworks that appear to rip apart the darkness and giving all the beauty of illumination.

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(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

David Luning: Lessons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are those who decry the actions of those who look inward for inspiration, using the self to campaign furiously as they focus on how to explain the world and its ever-changing fast history of fiction in a way that honours the truth, the Lessons it teaches us, and the dramas it casts shadows over. To be introspective is to have learned a life lesson, it is an unselfish act so that you might not only become a better person to friends and family, but that you could be the spark that shows others how their place in society works.

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

Paula Fong: Chestnut Mare. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst we should all know it, it is always worth driving home the reminder that to judge anyone by appearances is to deny yourself of the possibility of having your heart, your senses, and your mind opened to new opportunities, to have the world shaken; when you decide to dismiss based on any pre- conceived ideals or likes, then that denial is based in unreasonable assumptions of talent, that you see a field full of trees but dismiss the fruit of one as nothing but inedible experience.

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(420 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Rheingans Sisters: Start Close In. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The balance of our world is at stake, the precipice is staringly close, our heels are clinging on for the sake of our sanity, but the demons, the shadows of whispers that grab at our ankles out of sight have started to close in; only a truth of art can hope to bless our souls enough to bring us back from the edge, but we must allow the mind to Start Close In on healing before the temptation to let ourselves fall completely, utterly, over the edge of the precipice.

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

Andrew Combs: Dream Pictures. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We must snatch every minute available to us, every moment must be handled with care and with passion, but it also must lay the foundation of a dream that you pursue till it appears fully formed, no matter the cost to Time, we must be ready to deny silence in the mind in the promise of the fully formed belief; and if we can dream it, then eventually we picture it, and then we live it.

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(359 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Scarla O’ Horror: Semiconductor Taxidermy For The Masses. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have become used to living in a world where to be unique is to be viewed with suspicion, and to be amongst the masses is to be considered safe, to be protected in a shelter of the benign and the harmless. It is almost as we have taken the opportunity to cram every pore of those willing take artistic risks with stuffing and insulation just so we can exhibit them in a museum of the peculiar as a warning, as a cautionary tale to the timid and the apprehensive masses.

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

Thokozile Collective. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Ladysmith Black Mambazo arguably were bought to the attention of the wider world in 1986 when the sound of Paul Simon’s internationally acclaimed album Graceland was heard by an audience willing, desperate to investigate the muscle of music from a country and its indigenous people who had long been in the shade of popular recording; and yet as the listener takes in the beauty and exuberance of Thokozile Collective’s seriously cool self-titled debut album, that sound from the sizzling memory of Africa once lauded, marks a return to the ears as the U.K. based sextet roar into action with a Jazz beat legacy intact.

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(401 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)