Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When a musician from New York makes a statement it usually pays to shut up, listen intently to what follows and then take in the enormity of what they have said or sang about. Just like Liverpool, New York, the cities on each side of the Atlantic are perhaps the closest comparable ones in the world. Never mind the size and scale of the two respective places; it is the beating heart, the artistic underbelly that drives the two seemingly polar opposites together.