Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Birmingham’s musical history is arguably only surpassed by the city on the Mersey, and for that its past must be respected, and that which comes from its future given a full hearing of possible appreciation.

In a part of the country that gave the world bands such as Magnum, Duran Duran, The Twang, Black Sabbath, ELO, and Esoteric, the ability to be different, to be directly involved with the pulse of the city and spread the message out beyond the river Rae and its vast network of canals, to strike a chord of your own is an act of powerful consideration; and in Solar Eyes and their self-titled debut album, the fluid and considerable vastness of the musical sense of self explodes with virtue and belief all over the aural networks and cognitive reasoning.