Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings The Wonders Home - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Folk Songs from Israel [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/26/2016

2013 from the Canadian singer/songwriter. Jenn Grant's the Beautiful Wild, her fourth record, expresses wonders beyond pleasant views. Having grown up on Prince Edward Island, Canada, she saw rich landscapes and the glistening sea right outside her window, and it was easy to take such things for granted. The album title is a challenge To accept the grueling lows of life that come between glorious highs. To embrace life means acknowledging it's inevitable confrontations. So why this record and why now? Simply put, it's the songs, soulful and ornate, with rich guitars, pianos, horns, banjos, strings and even a boys' chorus populating the Beautiful Wild like trees in the woods. But everything stands aside for Grant's captivating singing, a thick tenor that trails like heavy smoke. While her past material established her throughout Canada as a musician of distinct note, the Beautiful Wild propels her into new realms of accomplishment.

Smoke Fairies will their first album in four years. 'Darkness Brings The Wonders Home' will be released on January 31st coupled with new tour dates for the band. The first single to be taken from the album 'Disconnect' is now available on all streaming platforms. Jessica and Katherine 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 in Seattle, adopted a purposely intimate approach to achieving a singular sonic tone. 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 (Fleet Foxes, The Black Angels, The Shins), 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. Over the course of a rigorous month-long session in Seattle, Smoke Fairies adopted a purposely intimate approach to achieving that singular sonic tone. LIMITED EDITION INDIE-RETAIL EXCLUSIVE Vinyl heavyweight 180g GOLD COLORED vinyl LPLIMITED TO 500 UNITSJacket 3mm spined sleeve and printed innerMastered by Paul Blakemore, Concord Music Group - Cleveland, OHManufactured by United Record PressingPress Erika Tooker PRFirst single 'DisconnectedInch, listen //youtu. Be/6hyYbqs6lJIFirst official video 'Out Of The Woods', watch //youtu.