Gavin Fox & Lilirose deliver a modern Christmas classic with 'Where I Belong'

There’s a certain kind of Christmas song that doesn’t need sleigh bells or glitter to hit its mark. The kind that sits quietly beside you, brushes the cold from your coat, and whispers that you’re not alone in missing someone. Gavin Fox’s new duet 'Where I Belong' is exactly that sort of winter companion, which is destined to find its way into the hearts of anyone who knows what it is to long for home.

Fox has always been a songwriter who writes from the marrow, and here he leans into that gift with disarming simplicity. His rugged, soulful, and instantly recognisable voice sets the emotional foundation, but the moment Lilirose enters, everything shifts. Her debut performance is earthy and fragile one moment, luminous the next, with a tone that hovers somewhere between fireside intimacy and cathedral stillness. Their voices together carry the ache of distance in two different colours, blending into something quietly breathtaking.

The song itself grew out of a late-night spark in a room shared with guitarist Eric Molimard, and it still retains that sense of spontaneity. You can hear it in the way the guitars glow with warmth, in the way the melody never tries to overreach, and in the way the lyrics seem to sit like letters written but never sent.

What makes 'Where I Belong' especially powerful is its universality. Whether you’re an ocean away from family, caught working through the holidays, or simply feeling the distance between who you were and who you’re becoming, the song is a reminder that love doesn’t vanish just because geography gets in the way.

In a season overcrowded with tinsel and cheer, Gavin Fox and Lilirose offer a Christmas song for the lonely, the hopeful, the weary, and the waiting. A song that chooses honesty over sentimentality, and in doing so, becomes infinitely more moving.

With 'Where I Belong', Gavin Fox adds a luminous new chapter to his already heartfelt catalogue, and Lilirose introduces herself as a voice we’ll be hearing far beyond this winter. This duet may be framed in the language of the holidays, but its message is evergreen.