Ker is the musical identity of Barry G.K. Thomson, a Scottish producer and singer-songwriter whose path to music took an unconventional route. He spent most of his professional life working in marketing before a serendipitous stop inside a music shop in Kalispell, Montana in 2014 sparked the beginning of something new. He picked up the guitar there, and what followed was a gradual, patient expansion into piano, formal musical theory, and a full songwriting practice shaped by his long-standing love of progressive rock, particularly Yes and Pink Floyd, alongside early influences including Elvis, The Beatles, Hendrix, and Neil Young.

Rather than rushing toward a debut, Thomson spent years building his craft quietly, working with producers and a piano teacher to deepen his understanding of the music he was making. The result is Converging Paths, a thirteen-track debut album rolling out steadily through 2026 with singles dropping in pairs across the year. Love to You All, released February 6, 2026, is one of the most ambitious entries in that sequence and by some accounts including Thomson’s own, potentially the strongest track on the album.

Love to You All

The song was inspired by a First World War memoir, imagining a soldier writing home from the front. What makes it work is exactly what Ker chose not to do with it. There is no political statement here, no dramatic anti-war posturing. The focus stays small and personal throughout, landing on the specific things that define that kind of letter: homesickness, uncertainty, and the quiet need to stay connected to people far away when nothing feels certain. It is the kind of writing that earns its emotional weight through restraint rather than reaching for it.

Musically the track stays close to the soft progressive rock sound that has shaped most of the Converging Paths singles, but the subject matter gives it a gravity that the lighter, more easygoing earlier releases did not need to carry. Ker’s vocal performance suits the material well, straightforward and believable rather than theatrical, which is exactly the right call for a song built on this kind of intimacy. A bigger performance would have undermined the point. The song also reflects something Ker has been doing consistently across this project: building tracks with real structure, proper verses, choruses, and development rather than repeating the same idea in loops. Love to You All benefits from that discipline without ever letting the structure feel formal or stiff. 

Final Thoughts

Love to You All is a quiet, well-made piece of songwriting from an artist who came to music late and is spending that time making records that actually say something. Barry Thomson is not chasing a sound or a trend. He is building a body of work one single at a time, with the patience of someone who knows exactly why he is doing it. This one is worth your full attention.

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