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.

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.

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.