closing track, "Alexander MacAskill of Berena, Harris" features a fusion of African music, dub music and pipes. The track which precedes it on the album, "Weirdness", is a minute long instrumental interlude which is described in the liner notes as simply "weird noises" created by the band. Release Although the album was recorded in 1999, releasing the album became a problem when, as the band had signed to New York-based Astor Place Recordings, the label went bankrupt and closed. The band also credit "contractual hassles" and "remixes being called for" as also reasons for the delay. During the ongoing problems, the band had initially self-released the album as a "limited edition" in 2000, although after such problems were finished, the album was officially released with different artwork on 4 June 2001 on Greentrax Recordings, five years after their previous effort Mellowosity, also released on Greentrax. The Astor Place Recordings logo still features on the back cover nonetheless. Faerie Stories would be their last album on Greentrax, as the band would later set up their own record label, Peatbog Records, to release their albums, although Greentrax would continue to support the band, and included their early track "Lexy MacAskill" on an anniversary compilation album of songs from the label entitled Scotland, The Music and the Song: 20 Year Profile of Greentrax (2006). The meaning of the album title is described in the booklet as being "tunes which describe and commemorate notable faeie as an faerie events". On 29 September 2008, the band's own label Peatbog Records re-released the album in a digipak. The copyright on the album is credited to Astor Place Recordings with the copyright year of 2000. Several other differences on this re-issue include the track lengths of certain tracks, and that the front cover features the Moon in the sky whereas the original Greentrax Recordings album cover did not. The re-release has replaced the Greentrax version in first hand retail and was probably created to do so. Critical reception The album received very positive reviews from critics, and has been noted as the band's first album to bring the band some attention. Keith Whitham of The Living Tradition reviewed the album alongside the recent re-release of The Easy Club's 1984 album The Easy Club. He said that "with this CD they have stamped their place at the forefront of Celtic cool territory. Musically Faerie Stories is light years