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Blood Speaks

Smoke Fairies

Blood Speaks

Second album of indie-folk / blues from the Jack White-endorsed duo Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire

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6.7

Label
V2
UK Release date
21/05/2012
US Release date
29/05/2012
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  1. 8.0 |   Art Rocker

    Though the trademark sparseness and subtlety of the instrumentation remains, the country-folk songs have a harder edge, with even the clear, pure vocals occasionally blending into something huskier, raunchier
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  2. 8.0 |   The Observer

    The mood of gathering gloom occasionally drifts rather close to torpor, but Feel It Coming Near and the sublime Awake usher the darkness in beautifully
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Smoke Fairies still posses great harmonies and sweet melodies, but they now come steel-clad. Print edition only

  4. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    Blamire and Davies' dueling guitars, once nimble and clean, now shrouded in a mist, muggy and ancient, like some unholy union of Fairport Convention and Colour Haze
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  5. 7.0 |   BBC

    There’s much to adore from the bluesy folk duo on this second set
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  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A largely timeless-feeling piece which not only sounds like it could have been written any decade over the last 40 years or so, but feels eternal in the way it runs its course
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  7. 7.0 |   Uncut

    They have added a much-needed dose of grit. Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    The duo allow their earnestness too much sway, making for deadening solemnity
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  9. 6.0 |   Q

    Otherworldly without sounding twee or insubstantial. Print edition only

  10. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    There's always a suspicion that these girls are just too wholesome for their spooky vocals to be truly to haunting
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  11. 6.0 |   hhv.de mag

    The sonorous duets together with the carefully used dynamics between loud and quiet create a cozy early-PJ-Harvey-reminiscent-mood
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  12. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The artistry is easily discerned, but I am not sure of its value. Why would one want to be miserable?
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