The latest EP It Grows from TiLT 360 is a powerful set of songs about actual feelings and personal tales. The band’s first number is the title track, It Grows, a hard-hitting number addressing the addictions of band frontman Billy Smaltz’s. Its raw and it’s honest, loaded with deep heavy guitar riffs paired with deep emotion.
Next is Innocence, softer but a meaningful song that drew from a moment Billy saw– a young black boy and a white girl holding hands at a wedding. The song reflects about how kids understand the world without hate, and we lose it when we grow up.
The Ride Down speeds things up again plunging back into Billy’s struggles against addiction. The energy is intense, the guitars and drums thunderous and deafening while we try our best to get up from all the falling. It’s a painful song but also one with strength.
The EP closes with a song, Drown, written by Drew Salzano on the hard breakup. The song oozes a sense of sadness and heartache but music holds its strength and keeps it going. It’s the most emotional track on the EP – ending it on it with sincerity and emotion.
It Grows, recorded in Youngstown, OH and Harrisburg, PA, It Grows demonstrates the extent that TiLT 360 has grown a band. It is high and forceful; full of life, however harbouring a lot of meaning. This EP is not only about sound, but like our life, our struggle and our healing. TiLT 360 is back in business and better than before.
