Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Film and music are so intrinsically linked together that sometimes it is easy to forget just how much they would be missed if separated, torn apart and left to fend for themselves.
For the sensational Liverpool band Science of the Lamps and in particular the woman behind the thought process and cohesive story-telling, film is a logical move. The band’s latest song, Lonely, sits up there with the very best of the Nordic tales that they have written and provides the perfect backdrop for the new feature film My Lonely Me.
Like many of the collective’s other songs, the darkness, the shadows of the Nordic night and the story-tellers of old who grace the stage with their wit and wisdom, the track is offset by the abiding eerie and fascinating light that resonates like the first glimpses of the Northern Lights. The mystery of it all there to be understood, the gentleness of the depth of feeling it creates more than just something that is perfect but soaks right through to the soul.
For Kaya Herstad-Carney the music is always out in the open, it doesn’t hide behind the microphone and allude to just being different, it is so distinct, so randomly beautiful that it captures more than an essence, it envelops it, gives it the imagery that anyone with a bone of poetry in them would fall over themselves to adore. It is in the art of the story teller that such images are made and in the song Lonely, such images are rife, they are the marriage of lyrics and musical notes that you want to live forever in the same terrific company.
In such a world that Science of the Lamps exist in, the thought of being isolated, secluded from such descriptive fantasy and elevated poetry is enough to make anyone weep for the loss, thankfully thanks to the band nobody would ever feel that Lonely, for the music of such a great band will always offer a sense of comradeship.
Science of the Lamps will be performing at the Atkinson Theatre in Southport on September 16th and The Citadel in St. Helens on September 17th.
Ian D. Hall