The music of Sills & Smith careens between pastoral folk, trippy indie rock, to progressive rock. A duet of singer/songwriters Jeremy Sills and Frank Smith, they have just released their sixth album of original music called: Maps – Burned or Lost with famed producer Phillip Victor Bova at Bova Sound in Ottawa. This recording is an epic musical journey, with 14 songs and close to 70 minutes of music. All the composers, musicians and singers on this album are from Ottawa, Canada. This duet will satisfy that hard to reach itch, like a long backscratcher of creative singer-songwriter-indie-rock. That’s the short of it!
Maps - Burned or Lost
1. On The Edge (4:19)
2. Kings (4:43)
3. A Freight Train (4:52)
4. Maps (5:09)
5. Waves (6:00)
6. No Measuring (5:02)
7. Take Care (4:40)
8. The Offer (5:28)
9. Grave Fascination (4:22)
10. Wash Away (4:19)
11. Miss Us (4:39)
12. Mercy (4:12)
13. Window Through Her Mind (4:42)
14. At The End of The Day (4:56)
Total running time: 67:51
All songs composed by Sills & Smith: Frank Smith (words and music); Jeremy Sills (music), except At The End of the Day: words and music Frank Smith and Jeremy Sills.
Released January 1, 2018
Frank Smith - vocals
Jeremy Sills - vocals, 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars, piano and trumpet
Phillip Victor Bova - electric bass, keyboards, strings, hammond organ, tambourine
T. Bruce Wittet - drums and percussion
Don Wallace - electric guitars
Jesse Stewart - percussion
Marianne Dumas - keyboards, tambourine
Jim McDowell - hammond organ and wurlitzer organ
Brian Tansley - soprano saxophone, flute
Petr Cancura - mandolin
John Findlay - electric guitars on Miss Us
Self-Released
70 minutes
The duet is very creative in both melody and lyric themes. The songs are the corner stone that this album in built upon, songs dealing with loss, emotional pain, and questioning the world we live in. Each track is full of lyrical gems and the playing sets the vibe perfectly.
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