Excerpt: “Nowadays, classically influenced singer-songwriters are no longer a rare commodity, even when they can play the harpsichord. In these musically undefined times, any given artist’s influences hardly hold any merit on their own. Which is why it’s not Liam Singer’s diverse musical pallet alone makes this album worth listening to, many times over; it’s the unique and beautiful picture he chooses to paint with it. “Dislocatia” is, by definition, not about a location, a specific mood, but the exact opposite. Setting the tone for forty minutes of eternal searching and never-quite-feeling-at-home, it opens with a deceptive instrumental statement; what starts off as a simple Beethovenesque prelude soon turns into an entirely unexpected mélange, fusing an operatic Soprano with several more keyboard instruments, drifting away to nowhere in particular—but sticking together, in a semi-organized form, like a flock of birds in the wind…. while that sense of musical cohesion is prevalent almost in every song, it doesn’t imply a unified sound throughout the entire album. About a quarter of the songs are instrumentals, so whenever you hear a song for the first time, you’re not entirely sure what exactly is going to happen…. But the vast majority of the songs are evocative, appealing, and surprisingly approachable at first listening; while not pertaining to any particular place or time, Dislocatia feels oddly familiar, like walking into an unknown house and finding a welcoming, half-forgotten face.”
