Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Slow and meandering, wistful, peaceful, ally, hindrance, roaring with thunder or verging on the edge of destructive impulse, whichever way you look at the river that runs closest to your home, it can be argued that it influences you more than you realise. Just as those who are fortunate to live by the sea feel the calm reassurance of the tides and the crash of the waves as they skim off layer after layer of rock, so too does The River place its timeless majesty into the heart of the community and for Hamish Napier, The River is the subject of an album that has all the attributes needed to make the person think just that little bit more about what shapes their lives.