Quotes

“Look out for Fran Smith - she’s going to be a big star!”
- BBC RADIO 2

“Very talented… something special about her, for sure.”
- BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC

“Incredible songs! Very beautiful. Fran is really setting the bar for songwriting!”
- BBC INTRODUCING

“Fran’s music is great… she is really special.”
- MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

“Fran’s voice is gorgeous and her songs are really REALLY good. Thank you so much, Fran, for your talent and sharing it with the world!”
- JOAN WASSER (JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN)

“It’s really exciting to discover a songwriting talent as intelligent and insightful as Fran Smith, who knows how to sing her own stories with such conviction and grace.”
- KARINE POLWART

“Great voice - love the northern accent. Very classic sounding songs, great piano and atmosphere.”
- JOHN ROBB, LOUDER THAN WAR

“We’re impressed with Fran Smith... we like her northern burr! Good on ‘er! We await the album with anticipation.”
- BBC RADIO SCOTLAND

“Fran Smith writes like she means it: refreshingly uncompromising, with an honesty that is both brutal and beautiful… it’s a performance that is utterly disarming in its naked candour. Where has this siren sprung from?”
- FOLK RADIO UK

“Fran is a singer-songwriter of rare virtue: she’s witty, she’s got depth to her lyrics, and she’s also got a kind of life and verve in her singing that makes you sit up and listen to every word.”
- MIKE HARDING FOLK SHOW

CONTOURS

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

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

"Holds me captivated... sexy and sad, a love song through a veil of tears."
- SOUNDWAVES REVIEW

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

"I LOVE Contours!  As ever, you get a real sting in your lyrics at the end there.  I love the big, wistful, slightly melancholy sound...  You're going from strength to strength."
- BBC RADIO LEEDS