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  • Artist(s): Jessica Davies, Katherine Blamire
  • Summary: This is the debut full-length album for the British folk duo of Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies.
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  • Record Label: Smoke Fairies
  • Genre(s): Folk, Folk-Rock, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, British Folk-Rock
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Devil in My Mind
eyes blurry and red trains roar through my head london churns like it wants me for dead river do you see? you're circling me angry waters that long... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Jun 30, 2011
    80
    An extended pilgrimage to New Orleans allowed the longtime friends to hone the 11 songs that make up Through Low Light and Trees into something truly magical, and while the album is clearly the product of the green fields and misty mountains of their homeland, it's obvious that the time spent in the Big Easy had a profound effect on them.
  2. Jun 30, 2011
    80
    Just like the way in which the Fairies use musical forms from the past to ground their songs, they also use musical repetition to make the point that the only thing that doesn't change is that change is always happening.
  3. 70
    At times, it's too lovely and woozy for its own good--but when the mood sours, as on standouts 'Devil In My Mind' and 'Erie Lackawanna', it's really rather intoxicating stuff.
  4. Jun 30, 2011
    70
    For all the minor detours, Through Low Light and Trees is consistent in proffering a dreamy, timeless music which could have been recorded at any time in the last 40-odd years. That in itself is a kind of recommendation.
  5. Jun 30, 2011
    60
    Ultimately this is a solid record, if not necessarily one that will change either the world or people's perceptions of folk.
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