Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Art is about capturing the moment, the zeitgeist, the point where quite often the voyeur and the eternal note keeper don’t quite understand where the Muse is coming from, perhaps not even speaking the same language, but understanding that what is being translated across is just as valuable to the exercise of free rein within art as it is to the experiment of collaboration.

In the first ever track recorded by Brian Bordello and Ivor Perry, The Onion King stands out for its refusal to conform to the expected single release, the hype is not in the upbeat, but rather in the modifying approach and the application of a renegade ethic that suits both artists and satisfyingly so.

Music is an art form, and as such deserves to have the same effect as looking at the differences between a Van Gogh and a Salvador Dali, one may appeal to the eye more than the other, but it does not make one of them wrong, it does not mean they cannot be respected for what they represent, nor in the end can someone reasonably argue that one set of music ideals and delivery is worthy of more attention than another; for art in any shape or form is the conduit between humanity and the soul, between the feeling and the pleasure one receives.

In the combination of Brian Bordello and Ivor Perry, The Onion King is the unpeeling of layers, a Salvador Dali slowly becoming a unknown, but not uncared for Constable, a Shakespeare sonnet being discovered in the nom de plume, and ease the creation washes over the listener, what is felt within the high emotional roller coaster, is the same architectural building blocks that perhaps met The Beatles when they recorded Revolution No. 9, the misunderstanding of the timing, and yet which today is seen for the beauty that it is, willing to push the boat of creativity to even greater depths, knowing that the fear of perceived failure is an illusion in itself.

A single which suits both performers to the ground, creative, the warranted righteous freedom to be as expressive as possible and without the concern of being misunderstood or mislabelled; for in art, everything has the capacity to inspire and be enjoyed.  

Ian D. Hall