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Seen is out now

Since January 2, 2026, Seen is out on all platforms. The song is taken from my upcoming album Dark Dog, due in January 2026 via Wellington Records.


Seen is an intimate and disarming song about the right to exist: the desire to be seen, to take up space, and not to disappear. I wrote the song after a long conversation with a friend about these very themes, but it gained an even deeper resonance through what was simultaneously unfolding in my own life. While my young daughter Irene was playfully learning language and songs, the track opens with her singing the children’s rhyme “Wie vrolijk is in de ochtend, die lacht de ganse dag… hip hoi”, I witnessed my father gradually losing those same abilities. Language, memory, and movement slowly eroded. This collision forms the emotional core of Seen.


In the lyrics, a gentle yet resolute promise emerges: “I won’t do the things that make you disappear.” It is a line that seems addressed both to another person and to myself.


Musically, Seen is a small, almost fragile miniature, but it is precisely in this restraint that its strength lies. At the end of the song, Irene’s voice returns — playfully nodding to pop artist Taylor Swift — singing “It’s me… hi” into a toy echo microphone. Seen is exactly that: a soft act of self-preservation and a quiet call to grant yourself, and your emotions, the right to exist.


Listen to the track here.




Music composed by Vincent Coomans. Recorded & produced by Jonas Bruyneel at Vincent Coomans’ house. Mixed by Bert Vliegen. Mastered by Laurens Grossen at Motormusic Studios. 


Lead vocal, acoustic guitar: Vincent Coomans, backing vocal & cute additional vocals: Irene Coomans, mellotron & soundscape: Jonas Bruyneel


Artwork: Merel Van de Casteele

 
 
 

'Must I Always' is out now


Hi all, here is the first track of my upcoming LP 'The Great Rebuild', that will be released through Illuminine Records somewhere by the end of 2022. 'Must I Always' was featured in duyster and was in fact written on guitar, once we arrived in Filip Tanghes' North Garden Studios we decided to transpose the song to piano and we recorded it in one go. Jonas Bruyneel played the piano in the studio while I was singing in the control room and afterwards Esther Coorevits and Wouter Vercruysse added violin and trumpet. On 'Must I Always':


In 'Must I Always' musician Vincent Coomans explores the friction that looms when you want to step away from a tumultueus youth only to find yourself feeling attracted to the toxic possibility of staying. In this moving pianoballad the darkness is always appealing and in great contrast to the freedom the artist seeks. 'Must I Always' is the first single of Vincent Coomans first LP, 'The Great Rebuild', that will be released through Illumine Records by the end of 2022. The pianoballad was written in the studio and recorded in one take with a heartbreaking honesty and authenticity in which the work of Bill Ryder-Jones and Tobias Jesso Jr. silently echoes.


Listen to 'Must I Always':


We really hope you like it!



 
 
 
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