Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings The Wonders Home

Their first album in four years!

Darkness Brings The Wonders Home on 180-gram black vinyl

"Glory Be! Smoke Fairies Are Back!" — Clash Music

Female London-based duo Smoke Fairies — Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire — travelled to Seattle to record Darkness Brings The Wonders Home with producer Phil Ek (The Black Angels, Fleet Foxes, The Shins) and over the course of a rigorous month-long session, adopted a purposely intimate approach to achieving a singular sonic tone for the new album.

In the making of Darkness Brings The Wonders Home, Smoke Fairies drew inspiration from mysteries both real and imagined: sea monsters, flocks of crows taking flight in extravagant formation, strange creatures dwelling in the mud near their new South London abode.

"Times of darkness are when people are often the most imaginative," says Jessica Davies in reflecting on the album's title. "It helps you to see all the wonders of the world you hadn't noticed before — the things you've been blind to because you've been on autopilot for so long."

Produced by Phil Ek, Darkness Brings The Wonders Home merges Smoke Fairies' musings and meditations with a decidedly guitar-driven sound, the duo's unearthly harmonies endlessly floating atop lead-heavy riffs.

Their unique interweaving of ethereal vocal harmonizing and swampland guitars draws inspiration from sources as seemingly contradictory as the rolling hills of the pair's native Sussex and the foothills of the Appalachian mountains; the smoky jazz cafes of New Orleans to the sunny meadows of the English countryside... try to pigeonhole the Smoke Fairies? You might as well try to capture a storm in a whisky bottle.

Side 1

1. On The Wing

2. Elevator

3. Disconnect

4. Coffee Shop Blues

5. Left To Roll

Side 2

1. Out Of The Woods

2. Chocolate Rabbit

3. Chew Your Bones

4. Don't You Want To Spiral Out Of Control?

5. Super Tremolo

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