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The Smoke Fairies, Jessica Davies & Katherine Blamire, talk about Led Zep dragging the blues into the modern day and about Jefferson Airplane reprising folk with a psychedelic sheen. For their part the Smoke Fairies take the delta blues of the deep south of America and fuse it with English folk.
On opening track and single, "Living With Ghosts", the girls set the scene with a track of slow blues with haunting vocals pasted on top. The overall feeling is one of melancholy. Just like the opening track, the rest of the album seems to drift along at one pace with little variety, resulting in set of songs that all merge into one big depressing pit of emptiness. My wife walked in while I was listening to this and described it as 'music to slash your wrists to, like..... what is the name of that guy…………Leonard Cohen".
I guess some people, with perhaps more refined tastes to mine, will hear this and describe it as "worthy". Others might describe it "sexy and sultry". They have toured along with Bryan Ferry and from what little some research I did most of the other reviews of their work, admittedly at much more 'trendy' websites, have been positive, but after a few tracks it leaves me drifting into a sense of desolation and ultimately boredom.
