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I'll Be Seeing You may be Kieran Goss's most direct work yet. "The way I write has always been from the heart", he says, "and I'm less afraid to be open and display vulnerability in my writing as I get older, to dig deep into how we process life, how we play the cards we're dealt".
The writing and production on the album is lean and focused throughout. The beautifully crafted songs are supported by spare, spacious arrangements and judicious use of harmony vocals. The opening track, One Boy's Treasure, is a series of nostalgic snapshots which concludes with the realisation that "nothing's lost that I can't find" and sets the tone for this thoughtful, hopeful album. There's plenty of Goss's trademark sunny melodies to be found here too. The wonderful fizz of The Reason Why and The One That Got Away balance out Goss's ruminations on grief on the title track and love lost on Into Your Arms and carry the album along to the reflective shuffle of the closing track, Make The Morning Shine, which is a prayer for peace in the midst of strife, and which has one of the most beautifully uplifting outros ever heard on record.
Much has been made of Goss's masterful stagecraft–in the words of country music legend Don Williams, his "amazing ability to reach out to his audience and connect with them in a very special way". On I'll Be Seeing You, arguably for the first time in Goss's career, the lyrical and melodic promise of his excellent early albums, married to the spare, restrained production has crystallised to bridge the gap between his live shows and his recordings. While it may be premature to use the words "career-defining album" this early on in his career, that's very close to what I'll Be Seeing You feels like.
Track listing:
1. One Boy's Treasure
2. The Reason Why
3. I'll Be Seeing You
4. Into Your Arms
5. Smile
6. The One That Got Away
7. No Good Without You
8. Line Of Innocence
9. Shining Like A Sun
10. Let Me Take You Home Tonight
11. Over And Over
12. Make The Morning Shine
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