Firefly Burning - Skeleton Hill (2015)

Skeleton Hill is the eagerly anticipated second album by London based five piece Firefly Burning. The innovative pop experimentalists created this 10-track record in collaboration with Tim Friese-Greene (Talk Talk, Heligoland) who has returned to the producers chair for the first time in thirteen years.
Skeleton Hill heralds a new phase for the band, whose heart-on-sleeve vocals and hypnotic textures have been injected with a new directness pop sensibility. With a nod classical minimalism, folk and jazz, the first track from the record, 'We are a Bomb' has been described as "weird and wonderful" by the Independent.

The record has varied influences. Echoes of Steve Reich mingle with the lyricism of Joni Mitchell, Bjorkian eccentricity sits next to folk-like purity and weaving a path through it all is Bea Hankey's mesmerising voice.

Skeleton Hill is a rich collaboration between the band and Friese-Greene, whose sense of adventure and refusal to be bound by genre-conventions make him the perfect partner for these other restless musical souls.

Firefly Burning are Bea Hankey (voice), Jack Ross (Guitars, percussion), James Redwood (violin, mandolin), John Barber (piano, gamelan, synths), Sam Glazer (cello).