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Wild Winter

Smoke Fairies

Wild Winter

Seasonal themed fifth album from the London-based dream-pop duo Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies

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7.6

Label
Full Time Hobby
UK Release date
20/11/2015
US Release date
20/11/2015
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  1. 10.0 |   The Arts Desk

    This is a peach of an album
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  2. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    If you find yourself feeling cold and lonely at any point in the holidays, here’s your soundtrack
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  3. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Smoke Fairies resist the chintz of traditional festive sonics, instead using spectral guitars and sprawling desert-rock soundscapes
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    No Mariah-style bauble-fest, but it’s all the better for it. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Strange and lonely. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   The FT

    “Give And Receive” is the loveliest Christmas song in decades
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  7. 7.0 |   Clash

    Perhaps the first Christmas-themed record ever to include a Captain Beefheart cover – dig their groovy version of ‘Steal Softly Thru Snow’ – this is an album that continually surprises
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  8. 7.0 |   All Music

    A fine and well-crafted set of songs that lives up to the standards of their previous work
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  9. 6.0 |   Q

    Not so festive folk. Print edition only

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