The acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Leith Ross assumes bold new dimensions on his long-awaited sophomore album, "I Can See The Future," via Republic Records. With production from GRAMMY Award-winner Rostam, the 13-track LP unfurls with disarming intimacy, the songs crafted layer by layer to achieve rich narrative and dynamic tension. But it's the peak revelation at the heart of this project that stands out single "Point of View."
An emotion is what we say it is that made us feel this way, McElwee sings, rejecting the idea of some predetermined window to be sad or happy on any given day and opening herself up to all feelings. "Point of View" is at once fragile and defiant. Then Ross adds the knife twirl. The lyric hangs in the air like smoke, embodying what it means to be painfully self-aware but also stuck in the lingering ache of longing.
Where the approach of many songwriters may be to cower behind a metaphor, Ross embraces transparency in full. The track reads like a confession late at night, the kind of intimacy that feels almost too personal to see. And yet, that, of course, is precisely where its potential resides. In a world of polished love songs, "Point Of View" opens a window of imperfection, contradiction, and the brutal honesty of identity and relationships.
As a piece of "I Can See The Future," the song is not merely outstanding, it centers the album's tone of openness and resilience. It's exhibit A through Z that Ross' gift isn't just their voice or guitar, but the kind of bravery to tell the truth precisely as it is. With "Point of View," Leith Ross isn't just welcoming us to listen, they're daring us to feel.