October 15, 2020
Australian singer-songwriter Liam Rorke began his career in the music world at a very young age and then completed a degree in music before immersing himself in songwriting. His new single Will You Be Mine is from his newly released debut album Heart Returning, a set of piano-driven songs with a focus on the trials and anxieties and hopeful expectations of relationships.
‘Will You Be Mine‘
Reviewer – Vince Leigh
Liam’s new track is a roots-based contemporary pop track, a love song whose persuasive accessibility align him with what seems to be an effusion of lay it bare troubadours of late. Will You Be Mine is perhaps the most buoyant songs from the album so its choice as single is logical.
It reveals the core elements of Liam’s style; an unapologetic list of emotional admissions coalesced into a musical blend of smooth, earthy jazz-tinged pop and urbane balladry, all with that pronounced intimacy, the whispery cadences that aim to strike a balance between unwavering honesty and romantic abandon.
Does it work? In a sense, it cannot fail; Liam has that kind of voice, with its indecipherable romantic’s hushed air and drift, the sonically direct nature a stand-in for imagined revelation. But imagined or not, Will You Be Mine does simmer with well-meaning, rather translucent intentions and a series of cheery affirmations that feel and sound unaffected and earnest.
Considering Liam’s choice of musical realms, the song sounds like it means it; and Liam sounds as authentic as we want our love bruised and bedazzled songbirds to be. If the jaunty, R&B flavoured introduction of Will You Be Mine doesn’t reel you in perhaps its opening line, I’ve never met someone who made me wanna fall, will. And if you needed any more convincing, you need only wait until the first chorus for, Stay here with me until the end of time, a declaration that will no doubt convince you.
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