Central Intelligence. Audio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kim Cattrall, Ed Harris, Johnny Flynn, Geoffrey Arend, Rob Benedict, Elena Delia, Kerry Shale, Matthew Marsh, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow, Julee Cerda, Jennifer Armour, Philip Desmeules, Rufus Wright, Nathan Osgood, Dana Haqjoo, Akie Kotabe, Adam Sina, Bijan Daneshmand, Jamie Bogyo, Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy, Wayne Forester, Sarah Alles-Shahkarmi, Isabella Nefar, Walles Hamonde, Natasha Arancini, Hubert Hanowicwz, Will Hislop, Andi Jashy, Arita Sadiku.

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

Curtis Eller’s American Circus: Another Nice Mess. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We all arguably had that one parent who would describe the tangled clutter in our bedrooms as either disgusting untidiness or as Another Nice Mess, one that can be quickly dealt with, cleaned and categorised with an air of breeziness in their voice; as if a serene sense of cool had been injected into them from a source unknown.

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

Soul Asylum: Slowly But Shirley. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The delight of the pun is not missed, the upbeat tempo that spices up the air around the senses is enjoyed, and the craft that Soul Asylum place in detail as their new album, Slowly But Shirley, spins its own delicacy of allusion and frantic joy, is to admired, and with a gust of rapid musical precision the listener is thrown head first in to a groove of refuge and sanctuary that is a haven against a world possessed as it is in fury and madness.

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

Fight The Fade: Isolationist. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We can never truly explain the human psyche, not in complete assured conviction, but we can find ways to protect the sense of individuality we need to flourish as a species, to adhering to some policies that nurture the belief of community; it is a fine balancing act that could swing towards the authoritarian dogma or the isolationist policy that comes with the beleaguered and the damaged.

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(346 words, 1 image, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Ezra Collective: Dance, No One’s Watching. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are so wrapped up in the sense of appearances that we forget that to dance is not just an act of enjoyment, it is a rite of passage that serves us well long after that first fumbling encounter on the floor of the school hall with the first crush we ever dreamed about. As we move from the sense of the sacred, we become mindful that all eyes are upon us, that to throw caution to the wind and move our bodies to the rhythm at hand is somehow going to cause us to be judged, to be considered, appraised and found wanting.

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

Gemma Hayes: Blind Faith. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Taking time to achieve a sense of glory, or to even find a way to balance life with passionate, down to Earth soul searching, is an art lost to many simply because of the decree from Government that states if you aren’t productively part of the system then you are taking up space, you are harming that wonderous slug of an idea, the economy.

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

Aerialists: I Lost My Heart On Friday. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be in the presence of exuberance is to feel cheer spread from the inner most part of the delicate soul we rarely speak of, let alone acknowledge its existence, and see that feast of merriment take hold and glow on the skin and the smile on the face erupt passionately as we acknowledge that if possible we could dispense with everything else if it meant we could just admit we were in love with the world.

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

Leif Vollebekk: Revelation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a question mark in the minds of many who believe that the melancholic sound of an artist is akin to the cry of the desperate and fruitless of those to whom only dust balls run through the otherwise vacant space, concerned only with the emotional luxury of the moment; the long term and sensitive sound is not for them, but for all others it is a staggering appraisal of their own brief lives.

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(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

London Grammar: The Greatest Love. Album Review.

London Grammar - The Greatest Love – The Vinyl Whistle

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What is The Greatest Love, one we can express freely, one that shocks us and catches us unawares, one from our formative years, or the one the one that perhaps saves us when we believe we are beyond help, beyond rescue, and out of the reach of redemption?

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(354 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortaga, Justin Theroux, Willem Defoe, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Nick Kellington, Santiago Cabrera, Burn Gorman, Danny DeVito, Sam Slimane, Amy Nuttall, Mark Heenehan.

It is the reunion we never knew we needed to dispel gloom and want of a sense of humour that has been deprived to us for so long; for whilst some comedy has gone down a road where it thinks to much of ramifications and not enough time on what is actually funny, what is cinematic anarchy in full flow and timeless.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)