Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One for sorrow, two for joy… a child’s rhyme in which the salute to ward of the possible impending nature of bad luck is rewarded with the idea that all can be turned to good fortune, a prophesy perhaps, a revelation of what is to come. If that is the case, then the twelve tracks that make up The Magpie’s Salute’s debut album High Water I must have taken the rhyme to heart as they have served up a set of songs that can immediately placed into the bracket of the modern classic; a lofty high in which many magpies may have felt like royalty due to the consistency of the signalled musicianship.