Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a Lonely Road we walk upon, and if we are fortunate enough to even find company for part of the journey in which to talk, to hold a hand when the going gets tough, or even just to contemplate silence and to enjoy the moment of having a comrade for the duration, then the lonely road is one that can still have songs accompany the time, the pace, and the meaning of travelling a distance with nothing but your own thoughts.

The song remains, as the classic once insisted, the same, but as we view the journey through the expression of individual, so our voice will resonate at a different frequency to those who walked the road before; so much has altered our perception of what it means to eb lonely in this world, especially in the last few years, that what we see, how we observe it, bears witness to how we go through the motion of tackling that Lonely Road.

Where some might cower and rush, and others brazenly attack, the sense of cool that accompanies Liverpool’s Royzy Rothschild sees him saunter with confidence, the road, not so lonely for it has the bolstered strut and observance of one of the city’s more unique voices describing the effect and the drama of the course of the journey.

The single also features the delicious voice and introspection of Emily Callacher, an acoustic artist who really captures the flavour and thought of the drama and the sense of abandonment, of the deserted soul that Royzy Rothchild has created in his expressive voice and shape of words.

It is this union that brings the twin crafts together, the extensive poetic like urban reassurance, and the song of the acoustic separation, and it is a union that builds the two genres, the ways of tackling the road ahead, and reveals the generous bounty that awaits in collaboration.

An anthem that both artists capture with grace, the Lonely Road is only such if we refuse to see we can walk along it with company.  

Ian D. Hall