Ghosts: A Compilation of A-Sides, B-Sides and an EP from the Recent Past

VINYL FORMAT. SECOND PRESSING, now on marbled vinyl! Comes with a digital download (including the download exclusive "Riverbed")! Female London-based duo Smoke Fairies present Ghosts, a limited edition vinyl album compiling their first two singles and an EP. Their unique interweaving of ethereal vocal harmonizing and swampland guitars draws inspiration from sources as seemingly contradictory as the rolling hills of the pair's native Sussex and the foothills of the Appalachian mountains; the smoky jazz cafes of New Orleans to the sunny meadows of the English countryside. Try to pigeonhole the Smoke Fairies? You might as well try to capture a storm in a whisky bottle. This music wells up from deep in their souls, sometimes dark, sometimes delicate and unmistakably shaped by distinctly British sensibilities and filled with a delicious tension - at once warm and haunting; soothing and unsettling. Following in the footsteps of artists like the Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin (on their respective third albums), and Jefferson Airplane, they've overhauled their musical roots and brought something new to the world. ''Frozen Heart,'' for instance, is a paean to love whose influences span five decades and all manner of traditional genres, putting all those pieces together in a strikingly fresh and original way. Ghosts follows four very collectible singles, including a one-off on Jack White's label Third Man Records.