I know a few of you are Fairy followers on here so a quick shout for the quite unexpected and sneaky but delighted it's here new Smoke Fairies "Christmas" album "Wild Winter".
It's a Christmas album but there ain't no sleigh-bells or carols (though there is a Captain Beefheart cover!). It's a winter themed album with songs of the snow and heartache and too much wine. Sonically, it's like a wintery companion piece to April's self-titled album, with perhaps some wintery atmos thrown in. What it really isn't is a throw-a-way Xmas project. It's a fully realised, standalone album and is rather great. In fact, I think it's got the edge on the earlier release in terms of songs and atmos and I heartily recommend it to those who Smoke.
Funny, but seeing as, according to themselves, they were on the cusp of calling it a day not so lomg ago, they've now cranked out two fab albums and yet more tours this year.
Huzzah for the Smokeular ones
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