CONTOURS - the new single by FRAN SMITH - released 23.03.16

"Romantic, sensual and angry - sometimes at the same time - Contours combines the melancholy of late 70s Fleetwood Mac with the caustic know-how of the Arctic Monkeys. Beautiful." 
- SIMON HATTENSTONE, THE GUARDIAN

"A fine and ambitious-sounding track... lovely recording, and I look forward to hearing more." 
- JEFF SMITH, HEAD OF MUSIC, BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC

"Her most daring single to date, Contours... is cinematic and stunning yet brooding and emotionally crushing all at the same time."
- THE REVUE

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LYRICS:

We throw our bodies down like shadows
Carve out worlds between the sheets
Climb each other like a mountain
You push through me like the city streets

We are peaks of knees and elbows
Shifting plates, the ocean’s moan
Monolithic marble marvels
Pale as a new moon, hewn from a wishbone

Lust is only surface water
There are riches buried deep beneath
This is how the land lies
This is how the land lies
This is how the land lies
Through its teeth

This hand is my land, and my land is yours
Trust is a voyage of chasms and contours
We thought that we were free to love
We thought we were just crossing borders
All the while, we were starting wars

We are the thrust, the dip, the hollow
Arcing boughs and slopes and seams
Engineers of atmospheres
We are cartographers of dreams

Lust is only surface water
There are riches buried deep beneath
This is how the land lies
This is how the land lies
This is how the land lies
Through its teeth
Through its teeth
Through its teeth

All words and music ©Fran Smith 2016

Contours - single

Fran Smith [EP]

Track listing:
1. Ghost of a Chance
2. All Wild and Wicked Things
3. We Will Have No More Marriages
4. Take These Bones

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CREDITS:

Fran Smith - vocals, piano
Nigel Stonier - guitars, bass, Wurlitzer, Hammond, harmonium, cimbala, glock
Sarah Brandwood-Spencer and Julian Cole - violins
Pete Whitfield - viola
Simon Turner - cello
Paul Beavis - percussion
Tracey Browne - backing vocals


All songs written by Fran Smith © 2012 (PRS/MCPS).
Produced by Nigel Stonier.
String arrangements by Pete Whitfield and Julian Cole.
Recorded by Chris D’Adda at Vale Studios, Worcestershire UK.
Mixed by Seadna McPhail at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Mastered by Alan Lowles at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Artwork designed by Tom Smith at Statement.
Photography by Jake Lewis.

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Click HERE to buy the EP from Fran's website

Ghost of a Chance

Fran Smith EP

Track listing:
1. Ghost of a Chance
2. All Wild and Wicked Things
3. We Will Have No More Marriages
4. Take These Bones

****************
CREDITS:

Fran Smith - vocals, piano
Nigel Stonier - guitars, bass, Wurlitzer, Hammond, harmonium, cimbala, glock
Sarah Brandwood-Spencer and Julian Cole - violins
Pete Whitfield - viola
Simon Turner - cello
Paul Beavis - percussion
Tracey Browne - backing vocals

All songs written by Fran Smith © 2012 (PRS/MCPS).
Produced by Nigel Stonier.
String arrangements by Pete Whitfield and Julian Cole.
Recorded by Chris D’Adda at Vale Studios, Worcestershire UK.
Mixed by Seadna McPhail at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Mastered by Alan Lowles at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Artwork designed by Tom Smith at Statement.
Photography by Jake Lewis.

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Fran's website:  http://fransmith.com

All Wild And Wicked Things

Fran Smith EP

RELEASED ON MONDAY 11th JUNE

Track listing:
1. Ghost of a Chance
2. All Wild and Wicked Things
3. We Will Have No More Marriages
4. Take These Bones

****************
CREDITS:

Fran Smith - vocals, piano
Nigel Stonier - guitars, bass, Wurlitzer, Hammond, harmonium, cimbala, glock
Sarah Brandwood-Spencer and Julian Cole - violins
Pete Whitfield - viola
Simon Turner - cello
Paul Beavis - percussion
Tracey Browne - backing vocals

All songs written by Fran Smith © 2012 (PRS/MCPS).
Produced by Nigel Stonier.
String arrangements by Pete Whitfield and Julian Cole.
Recorded by Chris D’Adda at Vale Studios, Worcestershire UK.
Mixed by Seadna McPhail at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Mastered by Alan Lowles at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Artwork designed by Tom Smith at Statement.
Photography by Jake Lewis.

We Will Have No More Marriages

IMPACT DATE AT RADIO: 7th October 2013.

As heard (so far) on...

- BBC Radio 2 (Steve Lamacq, Bob Harris, Jo Whiley, Simon Mayo, Mark Radcliffe, "Good Morning Sunday", Janice Long, Alex Lester)

- BBC Radio 6 Music

- BBC Radio 4's "Loose Ends"

- regional and local BBC stations and specialist folk music shows all over the UK and Ireland

- and performed at BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, where Fran's performance was named one of BBC Radio 2's Live Music Highlights of 2013.


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CREDITS:

Fran Smith - vocals, piano
Nigel Stonier - guitars, bass, Hammond
Paul Beavis - percussion
Tracey Browne - backing vocals

All songs written by Fran Smith © 2012 (PRS/MCPS).
Produced by Nigel Stonier.
Recorded by Chris D’Adda at Vale Studios, Worcestershire UK.
Mixed by Seadna McPhail at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Mastered by Alan Lowles at Airtight Productions, Manchester UK.
Artwork designed by Tom Smith at Statement.
Photography by Jake Lewis.

Take These Bones

Fran Smith is a singer, songwriter, musician and producer from Yorkshire, UK.

A mesmerising solo performer, she was named a ‘Live Music Highlight of the Year’ by the BBC in 2014.

Her songs are disarmingly romantic, witty, sensuous and “refreshingly uncompromising… both brutal and beautiful” (Folk Radio UK).   She weaves intimate, piano-based pop melodies with a dark, baroque quirkiness that evokes Florence Welch, Joanna Newsom and Antony Hegarty

Fran has performed in the US, Canada, and all over the UK, and has supported artists such as Martha Wainwright, Athlete, The Unthanks and John Cooper Clarke.  Her songs have been played on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4 and 6 Music.

FRAN SMITH

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