Smoke Fairies

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Summer Fades 04:12 Tools
Strange Moon Rising 03:26 Tools
Let Me Know 02:58 Tools
Hotel Room 00:00 Tools
Devil In My Mind 00:00 Tools
Awake 04:21 Tools
Storm Song 00:00 Tools
The Three Of Us 04:54 Tools
Dragon 00:00 Tools
Erie Lackawanna 00:00 Tools
Daylight 00:00 Tools
Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies Fall 00:00 Tools
Blood Speaks 05:53 Tools
Feeling Is Turning Blue 00:00 Tools
After the Rain 00:00 Tools
Take Me Down When You Go 00:00 Tools
Feel It Coming Near 00:00 Tools
Frozen Heart 00:00 Tools
Hideaway 00:00 Tools
Eclipse Them All 00:00 Tools
Version Of The Future 00:00 Tools
Film Reel 00:00 Tools
We've Seen Birds 00:00 Tools
Troubles 00:00 Tools
Shadow Inversions 00:00 Tools
Living With Ghosts 00:00 Tools
Fences 00:00 Tools
Your Own Silent Movie 00:00 Tools
Morning Light 00:00 Tools
Hope Is Religion 00:00 Tools
Waiting for Something to Begin 00:00 Tools
Snowglobe Blizzard 00:00 Tools
We Had Lost Our Minds 00:00 Tools
Sunshine 00:00 Tools
He's Moving On 00:00 Tools
Misty Versions 00:00 Tools
When You Grow Old 00:00 Tools
Drinks and Dancing 00:00 Tools
Koto 00:00 Tools
Want It Forever 00:00 Tools
Christmas Without A Kiss 00:00 Tools
The Very Last Time 00:00 Tools
Are You Crazy? 00:00 Tools
If I Were a Carpenter 00:00 Tools
Alabama 00:00 Tools
Give And Receive 00:00 Tools
Steal Softly Thru Snow 00:00 Tools
3 Kings 00:00 Tools
Out Of The Woods 00:00 Tools
Wild Winter 00:00 Tools
Circles In The Snow 00:00 Tools
Bad Good 00:00 Tools
Bells (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
So Much Wine 00:00 Tools
Radio Clicks On (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Wireless (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Gastown 00:00 Tools
Bells 00:00 Tools
Human Concerns 00:00 Tools
Smoke Filled Room 00:00 Tools
Catching Leaves 00:00 Tools
All Up In The Air 00:00 Tools
Radio Clicks On 00:00 Tools
River Song 00:00 Tools
The Wireless 00:00 Tools
Good Man 00:00 Tools
Cold Wind 00:00 Tools
Dinner Plate 00:00 Tools
Bones 00:00 Tools
Three Kings 00:00 Tools
Disconnect 00:00 Tools
Storm Song - Demo 00:00 Tools
Always In The Back 00:00 Tools
Tonight 00:00 Tools
Requiem 00:00 Tools
Snow Globe Blizzard 00:00 Tools
Strange The Things 00:00 Tools
She Sells Sanctuary 00:00 Tools
Riverbed 00:00 Tools
Nothing to Divide Us 00:00 Tools
Wedding Gown 00:00 Tools
I'll Move On 00:00 Tools
Now the Green Blade Rises 00:00 Tools
I Get So Lonely 00:00 Tools
Dancing Light 00:00 Tools
The Water Waits 00:00 Tools
Somebody Speaks 00:00 Tools
Good Day To Be Alive 00:00 Tools
The Road Is Long 00:00 Tools
another night 00:00 Tools
Sea Shanty II 00:00 Tools
You Can't 00:00 Tools
Do I Need You 00:00 Tools
Wish You Well 00:00 Tools
Monochrome Days 00:00 Tools
Simple Feeling 00:00 Tools
Film Reel - Remix 00:00 Tools
I Wonder As I Wander 00:00 Tools
Running Alongside A Train 00:00 Tools
The Visitors (Crackin' Up) 00:00 Tools
Sea Shanty 00:00 Tools
Strange Moon Rising (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hotel Room (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Somebody Speaks (Live) 00:00 Tools
Storm Song (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hotel Room (Live) 00:00 Tools
Requiem (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Visitors 00:00 Tools
Strange Moon Rising (alt. version) 00:00 Tools
Storm Song (alt. version) 00:00 Tools
Film Reel (Remix) 00:00 Tools
Feel Like Losing You 00:00 Tools
It's Over 00:00 Tools
Storm Song (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Are You Crazy 00:00 Tools
Devil in My Mind (alt. version) 00:00 Tools
We’ve Seen Birds 00:00 Tools
Strange Moon Rising (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Devil In My Mind (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Strange Moon Rising (Bezza Remix) 00:00 Tools
'Alabama' 00:00 Tools
If I Were A Carpenter (Tim Hardin cover) 00:00 Tools
Storm Song Demo 00:00 Tools
Sunshine (master) 00:00 Tools
Eeri Lackawanna 00:00 Tools
Awake (Best Fit Session) 00:00 Tools
Steal Softly Thru Snow (Captain Beefheart cover) 00:00 Tools
'Hotel Room' 00:00 Tools
Sea Shanty 11 00:00 Tools
Storm Song (Demo) 00:00 Tools
sea shanty two 00:00 Tools
Sea Shanty 1 00:00 Tools
The Winter Waits 00:00 Tools
Wake You Up 00:00 Tools
Christmas Don't Be Late (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 23 Dec 2009) 00:00 Tools
Alabama (Neil Young Cover) 00:00 Tools
Drinks & Dancing 00:00 Tools
Strange Moon Rising (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 7 Oct 2010) 00:00 Tools
Strange Moon Rising (official video) 00:00 Tools
Take Me Down When You Go (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Running along side a train 00:00 Tools
Devil in My Mind (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 7 Oct 2010) 00:00 Tools
Hotel Room (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 7 Oct 2010) 00:00 Tools
Storm Song (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 7 Oct 2010) 00:00 Tools
Trioubles 00:00 Tools
Phone Line 00:00 Tools
Riverbed  (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
I Get so Lonely (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Bones  (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Road Is Long (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Storm Song [Demo] 00:00 Tools
After The Rain (Live Session Version) 00:00 Tools
Valentia 00:00 Tools
Good Man  (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Tonight  (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Bells [*] 00:00 Tools
All up in the Air (Live) 00:00 Tools
Storm Song (acoustic on Other Voices) 00:00 Tools
Let Me Know (Official Video) 00:00 Tools
Summer Fades - 6 Music session 25/01/2011 00:00 Tools
Running Alongside a Train/Feel Like Losing You 00:00 Tools
Hotel Room - 6 Music Session 07/10/2010 00:00 Tools
Strange Moon Rising (Live Session Version 00:00 Tools
The Water Waits  (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Wireless [*] 00:00 Tools
Sea Shanty 2 00:00 Tools
When I Grow Old 00:00 Tools
Valentina 00:00 Tools
Hotel Room (6 Music Session, 7 Oct 2010) 00:00 Tools
Storm Song (6 Music Session, 7 Oct 2010) 00:00 Tools
Frozen Heart-(Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Another Night  (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Road Is Long 00:00 Tools
Sea Shanty Ii  (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Version Of The Furure 00:00 Tools
The Three Of Us (Marc Riley Session 04.10.12) 00:00 Tools
#5 - Blood Speaks 00:00 Tools
Frozen Hearts 00:00 Tools
Erie Lalkawanna (Live Session Version) 00:00 Tools
Tour Video - Sunshine 00:00 Tools
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Smoke Fairies is a British dream pop duo comprising Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies The duo met at school in Sussex, UK during the late 1990s. They spent 2002 in New Orleans, LA, where they absorbed American blues music. When they returned to England they discovered British folk music at the Sidmouth Folk Week Festival while working as car park attendants. They later settled in Vancouver, Canada, for a year before returning to London, UK in 2006 to start performing. Smoke Fairies’ outstanding album, the eponymously titled Smoke Fairies, shows the band in top form, combining their classic approach whilst exploring new forms of musical expression – but it is an album that they nearly didn’t make. There was a moment after the release of Smoke Fairies' previous album (Blood Speaks, 2012) when Jessica Davies turned to musical partner Katherine Blamire and told her she was no longer sure whether Smoke Fairies should continue. For Smoke Fairies the suggestion of not playing music together would potentially impact more than just their band – theirs was a friendship forged by music, by a shared ambition that had carried them from their schooldays and on to songwriting and performing together. “We started considering what would we do if we didn’t do music,” recalls Davies, “and it was just a massive void.” Deciding that giving up on the band was “not an option,” Davies wrote a musical apology to Blamire that would become the stunning opening track of their new eponymously titled album, Smoke Fairies. “I just wanted to say sorry to her – sorry I scared you like that.” In the years since Smoke Fairies first entered a recording studio, they have made critically-acclaimed albums, supported on tours with Bryan Ferry, Richard Hawley and Laura Marling, and had a single released on Jack White’s Third Man Records; but for all the perceived glamour of a musical career, they were still sharing a house in Peckham and waiting for something to happen while they worked temp jobs around London. But with the question now raised, Smoke Fairies were able to really take stock and reassess what the band truly meant to them. “We realised that this is our life,” says Davies. “And we just have to see it as this wonderful thing, every gig we get to play and every record we get to make – we’re just incredibly grateful for that.” More than this, it allowed them to think about the type of album they wanted to make. They had earned a reputation for impressive live performances, for harmonies and intricate guitar playing, but what they now craved was something simpler and more direct. Blamire talks of secretly listening to pop music on the bus, trying to figure out “why it was popular, why it was good.” Davies tells how her own personal yardstick had become “anything with a drumbeat that made me dance around the kitchen.” Smoke Fairies yearned for movement and forward momentum. They wanted to make an album that wasn’t simply recorded live, but rather presented songs that were pored over, puzzled-out, polished and produced. “We wanted to feel that we had dissected everything back to its basic bones,” avers Davies, “and then for every song to kind of shimmer.” In 2013 Blamire and Davies took themselves to a remote recording studio in Kent with producer Kristofer Harris. “It was on a very old industrial estate,” says Davies. “It was a really eccentric area – it used to be a council office, now there’s a bubble car garage, a tattoo parlour and a granite workshop. It just physically felt so distant from anything to do with the music industry.” It was there that they set about crafting their latest album, Smoke Fairies, calling on their bandmates and old touring friends such as drummer Andy Newmark (Sly and the Family Stone, Roxy Music, John Lennon) to help out. “It felt very warm,” says Davies. “These people really came together to encourage us, as if we had retreated into a world of only ourselves and the people who mattered.” The distance and sense of introspection also allowed for a shift in their songwriting techniques. “We used to do a lot of harmonies,” says Blamire. “But this album gave us the opportunity to actually be two voices, rather than two voices as one entity; two people talking to each other as distinct characters. They’re the messages that we send to each other.” Their lyrical style, too, has changed: “We scrapped lyrics right from the start if they were too flowery,” asserts Davies. “Unless the lyric really got to the point and said something, it got cut.” Blamire agrees: “As songwriters, I feel we’re really starting to sum things up properly, to nail them down. For me, it was a testament to how long we’ve been together that we could just say to each other ‘that’s shit.’ There really was no ego on this record.” The result is a remarkable set of songs, notable not only for their strength and robustness, but also a sense of experimentation. The sheer liberation Blamire and Davies felt at using synths for the first time is evident in tracks such as the irresistible “Your Own Silent Movie” and the beautifully compelling “Drinks and Dancing”. Davies and Blamire’s sublime voices still stand to the fore, and tracks like “Want It Forever” are lined with a deliciously bluesy skuzzy-ness. This may not be the sort of album you ever expected Smoke Fairies to make, but it is an extraordinary record – bracing, sensual and defiant – and one that promises an exciting musical future. Blamire and Davies see the track “Hope Is Religion” as the song that best sums up their experiences of the past few years and their continued devotion to making music. “It’s one that we wrote together,” affirms Davies. “It’s about writing songs with someone, putting those ideas out into the open and sharing them with somebody; but it’s also about how with music you’re always hoping for more – that this will happen or that will happen. For us it felt as if music had become our religion, we believed in it without any evidence that we’d actually be able to make any money or be successful. I guess that sums up the situation we were in; but we realised we had no other option but to keep on believing.” Read more on Last.fm. 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