An intimate, sun-kissed celebration of life’s little moments, Ziggy Alberts’ “I’m With You” is a dreamy, smile-inducing folk-pop song full of light and love, further cementing the Australian singer/songwriter as a singular and heartfelt voice in today’s musical landscape.
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Ten-plus years, six-plus studio albums, and hundreds (if not thousands) of concerts have all helped Ziggy Alberts find and hone his own signature sound.
The Australian singer/songwriter – long a favorite of Atwood Magazine’s pages – is a bright beacon of light and love, his acoustic indie folk sound sure to put a smile on all his listeners’ faces.
“I’m With You” is no exception; released in mid-January, the final single off Alberts’ seventh studio album New Love (out February 21st) is an intimate, sun-kissed celebration. Through a medley of glistening acoustic guitar strums, exuberant hand claps, pounding drums, and warm harmonies, he embraces life’s “simple, yet meaningful” moments – channeling their beauty into music full of heart and soul, depth and dynamism, hope and heat.
I remember when
I first saw your eyes
Working three doors down
From my favourite bookshop
In the world the coastline
When you wrote to me
You said that my body
It was made for yours, yours
And I’m just so grateful
That I got to know you
Here in this universe
Since then we have both
been on the move
I, I’ve realised just how
much I love you and
I, I’m ready now to give
my heart to the sea again
We can live life like adventurers
I’m with you, I’m with you
It’s a gentle, dreamy folk-pop reverie, and a quintessential Ziggy Albert song. “Love, in its purest form, has a way of bringing us back to ourselves,” he tells Atwood Magazine. “This song is about welcoming that with open arms.”
It’s “a truly happy song,” he adds. “It’s not sentimental; it’s just easygoing and uplifting, which is exactly what I love about it. I started [writing it] at home in Australia, late 2023, and kept working on it backstage during the Rewind World Tour. I remember jamming it in our common room at The Forum Melbourne when Nathan Ball lit up and said, ‘This is a winner.’ That moment sealed it for me. The upward melody in the chorus – ‘I’m with you’ – felt like discovering something special.”
Aren’t you sick of being lonely
just to make a little art?
Say yes! (yeah yeah)
Aren’t you sick and tired of always
choosing head over the heart?
Say I am! (I am)
Wouldn’t it be fun to let go, dance,
sing out under sun and the stars?
Say alright! (alright)
And even though we haven’t got
everything figured out quite yet
What’s that saying again?
Is it practice makes perfect
Arriving on the heels of previously released tracks “Where Does The Love Go,” “Outlaw,” and “New Love,” “I’m With You” is a sweet, cheerful, and charming tune with an utterly infectious stomp-and-holler energy.
Whether he’s rekindling ‘long-lost love’ or reconnecting with nature, Ziggy Alberts infuses his words, his voice, and his song with pure joie de vivre – a lust for life that proves as irresistible as his choruses are catchy.
This is life-affirming music, and the kind of song we deserve in 2025.
I, I’ve realised just how
much I love you and
I, I’m ready now to give
my heart to the sea again
We can live life like adventurers
I’m with you, I’m with you
I’m with you, I’m with you
I’m with you, I’m with you
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