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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Single/Download Review

Smoke Fairies:
Gastown Third Man Records 7”

Article written by Ged M - Jan 6, 2010

It must have been a massive high for the Smoke Fairies to be invited to Nashville to record with Jack White (he produces both sides and adds a distinctive touch to the finale of ‘River Song’) but their sound remains recognisably their own: that blend of R.P. English vocals and melancholy blues guitars. ‘Gastown’ starts like winter, with a distant feel and sense of emotions repressed, and then becomes fully animated and memorably alive right at the end. They repeat the soft/loud trick on ‘River Song’, opening like an English folk song full of pastoral imagery and ending as acid-folk, with Mr White’s electric guitar blazing and timpani rumbling; there’s a direct link to the Dead Weather sound just there but you’re always aware that the Fairies have now created their own distinctive, fragile sound that gets better with every release.

Links:
http://www.smokefairies.com
http://www.thirdmanrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/smokefairies