Getting Ready
Eason Chan
The mood on Eason Chan’s latest Cantonese album after 2013’s more varied The Key, is sweet and optimistic.
The tone is set by lead single Unconditional, a ballad about loving someone through all the vagaries and challenges of life. It is a song which plays to Chan’s strength as an emotive singer. Come what may, he croons: “I only know to love you every day.”
Heart On Fire and To Like Someone are two more Eric Kwok-composed tracks tailor- made for Chan to make you gently swoon.
And the jangly opener Boss, I’m Leaving Early puts a lighthearted spin on escaping the pressures of work.
This being an Eason Chan album, some curveballs are thrown in.
The later half of the album includes the atmospheric The Halloween Nightmare and the gentle rumination of Monologue From One Soul. The moving lesson learnt: “Whether I was right or wrong in the past, it’s too trivial to bicker about now/But I want to say that love is never a burden.”
(ST)