Bonfire The Shires

• 1 Bonfire Song 02:52
• 2 Getaway Car 03:15
• 3 Magnetised 03:10
• 4 house of cards 03:13
• 5 Slow Dance 02:59
• 6 Blink 03:16
• 7 Watching You Watching Me 03:23
• 8 Hypocrite 03:29
• 9 One For The Whiskey 03:23
• 10 Come Back Around 02:28
• 11 Sing You Back 03:22
• 12 a good life 03:08
• Total Runtime 37:58

Info for Bonfire

The Shires return with their sixth studio album, Bonfire — a warm and joyous ode to letting go, coming together, and forging connection. Their first album since the release of their Top 5 hit 10 Year Plan four years ago, Bonfire combines the high-level musicality of singing around the piano with the togetherness of singing around a fire as the flames crack and the lightning bugs glow. An album determined to get fans to leave their worries behind for the duration of the carefully curated 12-track project, the ethos of the album is rooted in its escapist nature. Fun is prioritized over overthinking, multiple takes and layers of production as the duo allows instincts and intentionality to take centre stage. Featuring boot-stomping barn burners and stripped-down tearjerkers, Bonfire is joy in melodic form and a stark reminder of the power of music to bring us together.

The Shires

The Shires
formed after Ben (from Hertfordshire) appealed on Facebook for a female country singer to work with him. Crissie (from Bedfordshire), a friend of a friend, replied, came round the very next day and they discovered an instant chemistry. “We can build our own Nashville underneath these grey skies,” they sing on ‘Nashville Grey Skies’, the infectious radio hit that introduced them last summer and hoisted a flag for home-grown country music.

Both are inspired by the old-school workmanship of country music’s professional songwriters – people they would later work with on their first trip to Nashville last summer. Learning at first hand the storytelling style of classic country songs, and how to craft a catchy chorus, the duo then injected elements that could only have come from our side of the pond.

Powered by Crissie’s powerful but subtle and supple vocals and Ben’s perfectly complementary tones and acoustic guitar, The Shires have literally found a piece of country to call their own. They love American music, but they’re proudly British and intensely keen to add some real indigenous flavour to the pot with their debut album 'Brave'

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