| Like Gold | |
| Cover: | Like Gold by Vance Joy.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Vance Joy |
| Album: | Nation of Two |
| Released: | 3 November 2017[1] |
| Genre: | Pop rock[2] |
| Length: | 3:44 |
| Label: | Liberation Music |
| Producer: | Phil Ek |
| Prev Title: | Lay It on Me |
| Prev Year: | 2017 |
| Next Title: | We're Going Home |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
"Like Gold" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy. It was released on 3 November 2017 as the second single from Joy's album Nation of Two (2018).
Vance wrote "Like Gold" after coming off the road at the start of 2016. Joy said: "It started with a simple melody I was humming and the idea of looking back at a relationship."[3]
In February 2018, Joy said: "I play a different rhythm from anything I've played before. I really like what the producer Phil Ek did with this song with big spacious drums and I like the way it sounds full of life. It's about a love that you're kind of reflecting on and the fire's gone out but there was some really good times in there."[4] [5]
"Like Gold" was certified gold in Australia in 2019.
Al Newstead from ABC called the song a "slower heart-on-sleeve ballad", saying: "Between hypnotic plucking and gentle prose, he captures the embers of a relationship that "used to roar like an open fire".[3] Emmy Mack from Music Feeds called the song a "rollicking folk toe-tapper [which] sounds like it was custom-made for group campfire singalong."[6]
| Peak position | ||
| Australia (ARIA)[7] | 124 | |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Artist Singles (ARIA)[8] | 14 | |
| US Alternative Digital Song Sales (Billboard)[9] | 13 | |
| US Rock Digital Song Sales (Billboard)[10] | 16 |