Through Low Light and Trees

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Through Low Light and Trees
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Studio album by
Released6 September 2010
Genre Folk rock, Indie rock
Length64:20
Label V2 Records
Smoke Fairies chronology
Strange the Things
(2007)
Through Low Light and Trees
(2010)
Blood Speaks
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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NME 7/10 [4]
PopMatters 8/10 [5]

Through Low Light and Trees is the debut studio album by English duo Smoke Fairies. It was released in September 2010 on V2 Records and later worldwide via Year Seven Records. [6]

Contents

Track list

Disc One
No.TitleLength
1."Summer Fades"4:11
2."Devil In My Mind"4:46
3."Hotel Room"4:11
4."Dragon"2:37
5."Erie Lackawanna"4:34
6."Strange Moon Rising"3:25
7."Morning Blues"3:39
8."Storm Song"4:16
9."Blues Skies Fall"3:04
10."Feeling Is Turning Blue"3:51
11."After the Rain"3:16
Disc Two
No.TitleLength
1."Dancing Lights"4:06
2."Storm Song (Alternate Version)"3:48
3."Strange Moon Rising (Alternate Version)"3:04
4."Requiem"4:01
5."Devil in My Mind (Alternate Version)"4:09
6."Human Concerns"3:22

Personnel

All personnel credits adapted from Through Low Light and Trees' album notes. [7]

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