A "mini album" inspired by the life and death of Fitzsimmons' grandmother, Pittsburgh is a sad, sweet, and spectral meditation on love and loss that pairs spare, largely acoustic indie folk with electronic-tinged bedroom pop.
Similar in tone and feel to the Pennsylvania-based singer/songwriter's prior long-players Lions and Gold in the Shadow, the seven-track EP occupies much of the same emotional headspace as Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell, and not just because Fitzsimmons' breathy tenor can at times seem interchangeable with Stevens'.
Both artists are adept at crafting melancholic narratives that are as disarmingly personal as they are deliriously tuneful, but Fitzsimmons, unlike the more thespian-esque and metaphysically prone Stevens, writes from a place that's grounded in the harsh realities of the here and now, and songs like "I Had to Carry Her (Virginia's Song)," "Falling on My Sword," and the bucolic (in a stoic, Rust Belt sort of way) title track, despite their gentle cadences and evocative, hard-panned fingerpicking, feel born of an industrial town.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Had to Carry Her (Virginia's Song)William Fitzsimmons | William Fitzsimmons | Play | 03:43 | 8 MB | 19 MB |
| 2 | Falling on My SwordWilliam Fitzsimmons | William Fitzsimmons | Play | 03:41 | 8 MB | 18 MB |
| 3 | BetterWilliam Fitzsimmons | William Fitzsimmons | Play | 03:46 | 8 MB | 18 MB |
| 4 | PittsburghWilliam Fitzsimmons | William Fitzsimmons | Play | 03:47 | 8 MB | 18 MB |
| 5 | BeaconWilliam Fitzsimmons | William Fitzsimmons | Play | 02:55 | 6 MB | 15 MB |
| 6 | MatterWilliam Fitzsimmons | William Fitzsimmons | Play | 03:28 | 7 MB | 15 MB |
| 7 | Ghosts of Penn HillsWilliam Fitzsimmons | William Fitzsimmons | Play | 04:14 | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| 25 mins | 58 MB | |||||
| 25 mins | 129 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Brooks | Mastering |
| 2 | Erin Brown | Portrait Photography, Vocals (Background) |
| 3 | William Fitzsimmons | Composer, Mixing, Musician, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals |
| 4 | Cara Fox | Cello, Cello Arrangement |
| 5 | Jared Fox | Engineer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |