Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There comes an age where eventually you might become unmoved by art, the moment where you realise you are not where you once stood, but further disconnected from the ache of a poet’s heart, where you might have more in common with the stone discarded from a sculpture’s reason that the reveal of beauty you once stood in awe of. It is possible, and occasionally perfectly understandable to be so overwhelmed that all that is left inside is dust and tears.

You were there, but you clamour, you fight with every tooth and sweet serenade that your senses pick upon, to be told You Are Here, that you never left, that you didn’t lose sight of beauty, you were just being prepared for the next adventure for your soul to be enlightened by a voice and a sound that speaks as if delivered by a combination of empathy and fierce heart, a sound that has at its core music such as Kate Bush’s Woman’s Work, of Tori Amos most in depth soul searching, of every woman who had the courage to speak their truth, and give it meaning…this is the point of You Are Here, to see all that you can, to tell all that wish, to love as widely and as passionately as you are able.

The track is delivered by one of Liverpool’s most endearing folk pairings, Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim, and it is haunting, it is serene, it has an edge of discomfort, it is the sweetness of light laid bare, and each step of the journey recounted is one of bliss; a sheer emotional response to a guilt free song which aspires truthfully to be enjoyed.

It is in the memory that it evokes that the pair place their footsteps gently over scenes encountered, the journey is one of discovery, places named with detail; and those emotions, such crowded pleasure to which You Are Here is an affirmation of arrival in the space and thought as the musician and artist you have never let go and never stopped believing in.

A single that is glorious, fascinating, demonstrative of the power of the duo, and one which you come to feel as a personal mantra of acceptance and the possibility of exploration, that whist you may have believed you were disconnected, in fact you were in the company of the involved and devoted.

Ian D. Hall