Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never mind the Year Of The Cat, or indeed that of the pig or the dog either, for in The Year Of The Rat great changes are audibly recognised, and it comes with a sweeping fascination of what is to surely descend upon us.

Poetry and music are intrinsically linked, not only through the obvious reasoning of their artistic Venn Diagram in which stars such as Leonard Cohen and Jaques Brel are admired, revered to a point where they are cast as human gods of their craft, but through the ability to communicate thought in such a way that they raise the mind of the listener to a place where consciousness is a doorway to the stars.