Darkness Brings the Wonders Home

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Darkness Brings the Wonders Home
Darkness Brings The Wonders Home by Smoke Fairies.jpg
Studio album by
Released31 January 2020
Genre
Length41:12
Label Year Seven Records
Smoke Fairies chronology
Live at St Pancras Old Church
(2015)
Darkness Brings the Wonders Home
(2020)
Singles
(2022)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Album of the year71/100 [3]
Islington Gazette Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Darkness Brings the Wonders Home is the fifth studio album by English duo Smoke Fairies. [5] It was released in January 2020, on the band's Year Seven Records label. [6] It marked the return of much-anticipated new music from Smoke Fairies after a 5 year break.

Contents

Background

The album was produced by Phil Ek in Seattle, Washington; the first time the band had recorded an album outside of the UK. [7]

The album arrived shortly before the first COVID-19 outbreak. Although some early launch gigs took place, many other planned activities were put on hold/performed as streamed events. [8] Smoke Fairies commented that this album took on special meaning for them, due to personal loss and the general isolation caused by the pandemic.

In April 2020, Smoke Fairies released 'No Matter How This Goes, Just Make Sure That You're Kind' [9] , a song recorded during the making of Darkness Brings The Wonders Home, but didn't make the final cut. The band wrote "It now seems this track makes sense and we wanted to share it because no matter how this situationgoes, we are certain that if we just feed it love, good will conquer". [10]

The album was released on standard and signed limited edition CD, 180g black vinyl, signed limited edition gold vinyl, deluxe limited edition black/gold splatter 'dinked' [11] vinyl as well as digital download.

Chart performance

Darkness Brings the Wonders Home reached the following chart positions: [12]

PositionOfficial UK chartDate
1Rock & Metal Albums13 February 2020
1Independent Album Breakers13 February 2020
3Record Store13 February 2020
6Independent Albums13 February 2020
6Vinyl Albums13 February 2020
18Physical Albums13 February 2020
20Albums Sales13 February 2020
81Top 100 Albums13 February 2020

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."On the Wing"4:21
2."Elevator"3:17
3."Disconnect"3:27
4."Coffee Shop Blues"5:12
5."Left to Roll"4:28
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Out of the Woods"4:01
2."Chocolate Rabbit"3:48
3."Chew Your Bones"4:57
4."Don't You Want to Spiral Out of Control"4:14
5."Super Tremolo"3:27

Personnel

All personnel credits adapted from Darkness Brings the Wonders Home liner notes.

References

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  2. "Darkness Brings The Wonders Home - Smoke Fairies". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  3. "Darkness Brings The Wonders Home - Smoke Fairies". albumoftheyear.org. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  4. "Darkness Brings The Wonders Home - Smoke Fairies". Islington Gazette-date=05 February 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  5. Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings The Wonders Home, 31 January 2020, retrieved 30 July 2025
  6. "Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings the Wonders Home on CD, Vinyl LP | Rough Trade - (CD., Black | LP, Gold | LP, CD)". Roughtrade. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  7. "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  8. "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  9. No Matter How This Goes, Just Make Sure That Y... | AllMusic , retrieved 30 July 2025
  10. "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  11. "Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings The Wonders Home". Dinked. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  12. "DARKNESS BRINGS THE WONDERS HOME". Official Charts. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2025.