Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It takes a Doctor who normally knows you well to prescribe you something extra that will get you out of a slump, the timely injection of the touch of prospective future genius in which to immerse yourself into. That Doctor will not leave you floundering like a salmon gasping for oxygen on the banks of raging river and with a bear looking hungrily on, he will not leave you in the dust, but he will prescribe you Dirt and the boost to the musical eardrums is opportune and sensible.

For Dirt, the stirring beginnings of a very decent Rock band to call London their home, their single Bonds is a terrific combination of guided subtlety and rampant enthusiasm. Bonds is a connection between old and new, the detailed progression of a set of musicians who are more than aware of the past that has shaped them into a group poised on the brink of being understood by some and enjoyed by others and willing to give London a name for producing good rock bands again.

For fans of Liverpool music, the bass of Abdul Hasaballa is a very welcome return for a young man who was part of the tremendous Mercury Midnight and who has found once again a meeting of minds alongside Alisatir Keenan on vocals, Dan Kidney and Nikhil Aggarwal on guitars and the very special beat of Perry Sinclair on drums.

London at times is perhaps too big an idea for some to get to grips with, it is an entity in which at times can swallow up a concept or belief before it has time to flourish. Hanging on to an outdated opinion that it is the best place in the world it sometimes seems to harbour a resentment to anything that goes against the Westminster Empire set of values, its why its people latch onto a sound that can drive the heart that little faster, it adds to the invisible dynamic that some try thir best to stamp out. For Dirt you can only hope that Bonds is the start of a beautiful, clash driven relationship, it certainly has a growing attachment to it.

Ian D. Hall