Smoke Fairies Release New Single 'Elevator'

Smoke Fairies Release New Single 'Elevator'

New Album: Darkness Brings The Wonders Home Out 1/31/20

'Smoke Signals' Podcast #1 in Apple Podcasts Music Commentary

December 4th, 2019, New York NY/London, UK:  Smoke Fairies release a new single today entitled 'Elevator.' This is the third single from their forthcoming album Darkness Brings The Wonders Home set for release January 31st, 2020. 

Katherine Blamire explains the concept behind the track: “Someone said to me ‘I never say goodbye in elevators’ and then the doors rolled shut and I whizzed off upwards. The exchange spurred this song - there is no way of knowing what is going on in someone else’s mind and sometimes it just feels like you’re kind of lost, like being in an elevator stuck between floors, trying to figure them out”. 

“The song is set in Hollywood. How many weird exchanges, miscommunications and career breaks and falls must have taken place inside of Hollywood elevators?”

The riff-heavy track debuted on Marc Riley's BBC 6Music show last night and also saw a spin on John Kennedy's Radio X Show.

Listen to 'Elevator' on YouTube: 

Listen to 'Elevator' on Soundcloud.

Smoke Fairies also recently unveiled their new video for 'Disconnect' directed by Annick Wolfers. "The video was a really simple idea encapsulating how your everyday domestic world gets turned upside down when someone gets inside your head - how your normal world goes slightly askew and there is a sense of strangeness to everything you normally go about doing "  Katherine Blamire

Check out 'Disconnect' on Consequence of Sound:

Watch 'Disconnect' on YouTube

Listen to 'Disconnect' on SoundCloud

Smoke Fairies recently played a sell-out single launch at The Social in association with Rough Trade to celebrate the release of a limited edition 7”. The song landed at #3 in the UK Vinyl Singles chart, surrounded by Coldplay, Queen and Kate Bush. They will play additional UK dates (below) in February just after the release of Darkness Brings The Wonders Home.  The ladies will also appear on John Kennedy Radio X with an interview and live session on January 28th.

Also keeping the band busy is the new podcast 'Smoke Signals'  launching to a great response upon the release, ranking in the Top 10 in Music on Apple Podcasts, #1 in the Music Commentary category in fact, beating Dolly Parton & Robert Plant. Check it out here: https://smarturl.it/smokesignalspodcast

 
Smoke Fairies are Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire who first met at school in their native England. For this LP they traveled to our side of the pond in 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, 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.

Smoke Fairies were the first UK act to release a single on Jack White's label Third Man Records and was produced by White who also played guitar and drums. Other notable recordings include a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Alabama’  from his Harvest LP which appeared on a special Mojo album to mark the approaching fortieth anniversary of the album.  Jessica and Katherine also contributed vocals to the track ‘Valentina', a tribute to Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space on The Race For Space, the second album by Public Service Broadcasting.  The band has toured this side of the Atlantic with Laura Marling, Rasputina, and most recently Blitzen Trapper and Dawes. More U.S. shows to be announced at a later date.

Smoke Fairies Tour Dates:
Feb. 1 -  Soup Kitchen - Manchester, UK 
Feb. 2 -  Oporto - Leeds, UK 
Feb. 3 -  Norwich Arts Centre - Norwich, UK 
Feb. 5 -  The Bullingdon - Oxford, UK 
Feb. 6 -  Hoxton Hall - London , UK 
Feb. 7 -  Birmingham, UK 
Feb. 8 -  Bristol, UK 
Feb. 9 -  Portsmouth, UK 

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