Sienna Spiro – Die On This Hill
Today, London-based singer/songwriter SIENNA SPIRO shares her breathtaking new single, “Die On This Hill.” Out now via Capitol Records, the ballad arrives as SIENNA continues her six-date run opening for Sam Smith during their hotly tipped residency “To Be Free: New York City” at Warsaw in Brooklyn.
The follow-up to “You Stole The Show” (a July release praised by the likes of CLASH, who hailed SIENNA as a “bona fide breakout talent”), “Die On This Hill” further reveals the 20-year-old artist’s knack for transforming heartache into songs with a strangely captivating power. “This song is about stubborn love – the kind that makes you stay when you know you should leave,” SIENNA explains.
A gorgeous showcase for SIENNA’s one-of-a-kind vocals, “Die On This Hill” came to life in collaboration with a top-tier lineup of co-producers: Omer Fedi (SZA, Lil Nas X), Michael Pollack (Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga), and Blake Slatkin (Sam Smith, Tate McRae). In a masterful accompaniment to SIENNA’s soulful voice and Pollack’s poignant piano work, the track also features an opulent string arrangement from three-time GRAMMY®-winner Rob Moose (a musician/arranger/composer known for his work with Lorde, Taylor Swift, and many more).
Co-written by SIENNA, Fedi, and Pollack, “Die On This Hill” opens with a hushed simplicity as she sets the scene of a romance gone wrong (“Got me to stay/Said that you need me/Starved cause his words/Don’t have a meaning”). In a stunning display of her extraordinary vocal prowess, SIENNA balances the song’s unbridled emotion with an exquisite command of her instrument, channeling both aching desperation and fierce determination with equal intensity. As Moose’s string arrangement envelops the song in a spellbinding grandeur, “Die On This Hill” achieves a particularly powerful impact at its chorus: “You’d take my life/Just for the thrill/I’ll take tonight/And die on this hill.” The result: an epic heartbreak tale in just three and a half minutes.
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