Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Unless we are very fortunate, working out who really is on your side and who only wants a piece of the action you are supplying, loyalty a word missing from the stunted vocabulary, is almost akin to living through a Film Noir in which you are the shady detective and everyone, including the musical score, is conspiring against you and hoping that you will, with open arms, Receive the Deceiver.

For young Liverpool band Seprona, their latest single Receive the Deceiver has all the hall marks of the Noir thrust into it, the element of the creeping darkness in which Gods and Men shudder at the sight of the Femme Fatale and whose lives are perilously on a ledge, slips in to the music with the ease of Lana Turner smiling with beguiling murderous charm and with the express permission of band members Daniel Badger, Sammy Issa, Tom Larkin and Joe Groove to be holding the smoking gun.

We all Receive the Deceiver into our lives at some point, it is the way of such things that we fall for that same beguiling charm and easy smile and believe what they tell us, never once asking the questions until in too deep. Saprona tap into this world and the easy charm of the vocals captures every stylised drop of blood, each guarded word whispered as if they were falling into the wrong heads just by being uttered and yet knowing full well that the listener will heed these spoken expressions and make much of the heat and joy encased within.

This for Seprona is a very big high, it is a song that isn’t just great but sits comfortably in the Liverpool songbook of 2015 as being thoughtful, well laid out and a compulsive listen. Grasping this particular song for all that it is worth is one decision that won’t be regretted, this is no Femme Fatale of a tune, it is the hero in which such dreams are made.

Ian D. Hall