Smith & Burrows

Smith & Burrows is a collaboration between Tom Smith from Editors and Andy Burrows from I Am Arrows / We Are Scientists / Razorlight. Their album, Funny Looking Angels was released on November 28th 2011. What started as two friends popping into each other’s houses and then home studios, putting down an idea here and a melody there, developed into a set of songs with a Christmas theme, then a theoretical album, then a real album with a release date and a title. ‘Funny Looking Angels’ includes original songs from both Tom and Andy but also features a selection of covers. The eclectic choice includes Yazoo’s ‘Only You’, Black’s ‘Wonderful Life’ and a closing track which features guest vocal from rising star Agnes Obel, in a duet with Tom singing a sumptuous version of ‘The Christmas Song’. The friendship continued, and in promotion for their next album 'Only Smith & Burrows is Good Enough', Tom Smith said “I never thought this second album would not happen. I don’t think we could stop it from happening. It has its own force, which is the power of our collaborative writing and voices. Although it did take a while.” 'Only Smith & Burrows is Good Enough' was released by PIAS on 19 February 2021 - with ten carefully crafted songs from the long term collaboration including recently released singles, 'All The Best Moves' (with it's video of spilt screen, socially isolated, dancing at home from each singer), 'Old TV Shows', 'Parliament Hill' and 'I Want You Back In My Life'. The album was recorded over six weeks in Tennessee with producer Jacquire King during 2020. Commenting on the process, Andy Burrows said "“Neither of us are precious about who sings what. It’s always what’s best for the song. And Jacquire understood that – but he also pushed the idea of the songs, vocally, being Smith and Burrows. So it’s a really lovely equal vocal distribution.” https://www.facebook.com/smithandburrows https://twitter.com/smithandburrows Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.