Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It has been described as a decade of much change, a period in which we first started to forget about the social obligations that we had fought so hard to improve after the dark days that came in the form of fear and the possible knock at the door, a decade that came with the start of greed and unthought of middle class affluence driving the nation under the banner of wealth creation, it had many guises, many different faces, not all of it a measure for good.

Despite it all, we can argue in the positive that the 1980s was a time of great music, excessively so, heralded by a group that were the first to be considered latch key kids, urged on give a meaningful vibe that was distinctive and unlike the decades before, something that music listeners had not found during the foundation years of pop, a symbolism of the time but one that was able to live in harmony with the generation listening to it and one that has since found a continuous way to inspire the generations following.

It is about Making Room, about understanding that what you do today causes ripples of good intentions to flow outwards, the influence is undeniable, an era of music that captured the imagination and to which Liverpool’s Chasing Infinity have embraced wholeheartedly, and with dedicated aural sincerity to the songs and some of the groups that dominated that period.

Making Room, not hogging the conversation or the stage, but being comfortable in sensing that music is for all, not just for a considered elite, and that is how the band have presented their latest single, one of upbeat musical aroma that gives the listener the chance to feel the bloom as it flourishes, a memory of legends such as Wendy James strutting to the tune, and as the song reaches its climax, the crescendo, what comes across is the balance between lyric and laid down tune, and it is to be congratulated.

Chasing Infinity, never a dull moment with their music, always considered, always approachable, they themselves Making Room for others to join in the fun.

Ian D. Hall