Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We all want that moment, be it for a brief period in our lives, or if we are fortunate, a sense of relief that lasts years, even a lifetime. There is no emotional satisfaction that comes close, no gut-wrenching honesty that survives and offers hope than when you can say to someone who loves you that “The Way You Look At Me” makes me want to be a better person.
It is fulfilling in a time of personal dejection, where too many of us are searching endlessly for the sliver of gold that gives us transitory and ephemeral relief that somewhere there is a person who will stare deep into our soul and adore what they see.
Such a mood is difficult to capture in art, and sometimes too easy to replicate when the subject is made to be a figure of the Muse. Tracks such as Lionel Richie’s Hello, Chris de Burgh’s Lady In Red, and a million others frame the essence, but rarely leave the listener thinking that there is an element of the short lived infatuation, even a conquest of another’s sense of truth, that lives within.
Yet should we look to a simpler, powerfully delivered, and fixed gaze of the subject at hand, then Liverpool’s Gareth Heesom provides with unwavering conviction, the sense of decorum, that masters the belief that we should strive for that moment where we know, where we truly grasp the realisation that we are loved.
The Way You Look At Me is heartfelt, it is a single that the listener would come to expect from someone of Mr. Heesom’s ability and charming resonance in his song writing , and yet it still feels as though the dream of such a moment is fresh, exciting, realistic in its expression, one that also understands that weakness of the heart is a motivator of spirit…for we all need those moments but we are also concerned that eventually, as with any human emotion, can fall if we don not nurture it, if we do not give the person whose eyes are drawn to our imperfection and sometimes frailty, reason to keep us close to their heart, then we ourselves are but echoes of a song of infatuation.
A beautiful melody, lyrically exquisite, Gareth Heesom yet again charms the soul, and the way we look at him, is as every bit beautiful as the one who has offered in song.
Ian D. Hall