What I Think About Is You

Dexys “You”

Kevin Rowland is disarmingly direct all through One Day I’m Going to Soar, his first record in nearly three decades. A lot of people sing very personal things and do it rather plainly, but he seems to go a step further — his words and phrasing seem just a bit too close for comfort. Rowland’s brand of oversharing is strangely friendly. It often feels as if you’ve somehow trespassed into the deepest recesses of his mind, but he’s all too happy to find you there, and just regales with every insecurity and anxiety he has collected over the past 20 years. “You,” a song about rediscovering lust and passion with a new partner, is warm and easy-going, but as much as he’s singing about this other person, it’s really just about how they make him feel. The song is very sweet, but taken in context of a record that has him constantly pondering why his relationships never last, it’s easy to look at this number and see that the problem is quite obvious. He never gets outside of his head, or considers the other person outside the context of himself.

Buy it from Amazon.