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Mount The Air

&#;I hope you hear it all.” Elvis Costello

&#;Truly jaw-dropping” Bright Young Folk

&#;Compositionally on a different planet” musicOMH

“An epic that Sigur Rós or Elbow would be proud of.” Drowned in Sound

BBC Folk Awards Album of the Year

Includes: Mount The Air &#; Magpie &#; Flutter &#; Died For Love

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Diversions Vol 5: Live And Unaccompanied

“Unbelievably spellbinding” Folk Radio

Recorded live across a five-week tour in March and April , The Unthanks go back to what they know and do best &#; singing in unaccompanied harmony.

Includes: Magpie &#; One By One &#; We Picked Apples In The Graveyard Freshly Mown &#; Bread and Roses

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Lines: Parts One, Two & Three

&#;The Unthanks continue to experiment ravenously and joyously&#; Jude Rogers, The Guardian

A trilogy of song cycles inspired by poetry, focusing on three female perspectives across time &#; writer Emily Brontë, World War One poets, and British Hull fishing worker Lillian Bilocca.

Niopha keegan biography definition Sorrows Away, the latest album from The Unthanks, not only marks a welcome return but also brings one of their most extraordinary albums to date. The dynamics at the core of what is one of the most distinctive-sounding bands around appear to have not really changed. Still at the heart are two sisters, Rachael and Becky, with their uncanny blend of familial harmony singing. Whether it is due to the interlocking of accents, years of attunement and paired practice or rather down to genetic similarities in tone; together they are heard as one strain, tight-knit like the double helix braiding of DNA. If the sisters are the heart, Adrian McNally, as once mentioned on these pages, is like the vessels, the veins and arteries down which the music flows to the limits of its creation.

The trilogy is available as &#;medium play&#; records on 10&#; vinyl or CD. Both come in a neat unshouty slipcase, illustrated by Natalie Rae Reed.

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Diversions Vol 4: The Songs And Poems Of Molly Drake

As a private songwriter and poet, Molly Drake was every bit as talented as her famous children, Gabrielle and Nick Drake.

The Unthanks interpret her songs and set some of her poems to music too, performed by Molly&#;s daughter, the actress Gabrielle Drake.

Includes: What Can A Song Do To You? &#; Little Weaver Bird &#; Never Pine For The Old Love

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Diversions Vol 4: The Songs And Poems Of Molly Drake EXTRAS

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The Unthanks fell in love with so many of Molly Drake’s songs, that in addition to a full album, they released an appendage called Extras featuring a further 8 tracks, released on 10” vinyl and CD, and exclusively available from The Unthanks website.

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Archive Treasures

In celebration of their 10th anniversary, The Unthanks released a 76 minute CD of rarities, exclusive live tracks, demos and outtakes, the only item available for individual purchase from The Unthanks Memory Box.

Includes: Tar Barrel In Dale &#; Alifib / Alifie &#; Sexy Sadie

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Diversions Vol 3: Songs from the Shipyards

“A riveting, rigorously unsentimental yet deeply moving experience.

It’s surely a future classic.” Songlines

“There really is no better folk band in the land” Q Magazine

The music from Songs from the Shipyards – a beautiful and moving film, tracing the story of shipbuilding. Includes: A Great Northern River &#; The Romantic Tees &#; Shipbuilding

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Diversions Vol 2: The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band

&#;Easily the band’s best and most mature album to date&#; Daily Express

“The Unthanks&#; boldest experiment yet” The Guardian

Commissioned by the Durham International Festival of Brass and supported by Arts Council England.

Includes: The King Of Rome &#; The Trimdon Grange Explosion &#; The Fathers Suite

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Diversions 1: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons

&#;A triumphant excursion” The Observer

A live album of a show that made The Independent’s Gigs of the Year list , recorded at the Union Chapel, Islington, London.

Niopha keegan biography definition wikipedia All right, that's not entirely true, but Becky Unthank cackles with laughter at the idea. God, no. No, no. Then again, stranger things have happened — like the Northumberland band Becky, her sister Rachel, Rachel's husband Adrian McNally, and friends Chris Price and Niopha Keegan becoming one of England's most celebrated folk acts over the past 10 years. In fact, stranger things have happened to The Unthanks themselves, such as having Bilbo Baggins proclaim his love for the group.

Includes: Sea Song &#; You Are My Sister &#; Spiralling &#; Lullaby For Hamza

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Last

“Their fourth and best album” Q

&#;Gorgeously unhurried, utterly mesmerising masterpiece.&#; Sunday Express

&#;The Unthanks seem to regard folk music the same way Miles Davis regarded jazz: as a launchpad for exploring the wider possibilities..

a bleakly beautiful record&#; Uncut

Includes: Gan To The Kye &#; Queen of Hearts &#; Last &#; Starless

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Here's The Tender Coming

“..a rare, undisciplined is another formidable work” fRoots

“Absolutely exquisite. A real work of art. I will be playing it at least forever” Paul Morley

Mojo Folk Album Of The Year.

Top 50 Albums Of The Year, The Guardian and Uncut.

Biography examples The Unthanks until called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset [ 1 ] [ 2 ] are an English folk group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional English folk, particularly Northumbrian folk music , with other musical genres. Originally an all-female band , Rachel Unthank and the Winterset made their debut performance at Holmfirth Folk Festival on 7 May [ 15 ] and launched their debut album Cruel Sister at the same festival venue the following year, on 11 May In , the band became the Unthanks, and their manager Adrian McNally and his childhood friend Chris Price [ 23 ] joined the group. Here's the Tender Coming , their third album and the first under the Unthanks moniker , was released on 14 September Tracks build slowly and mysteriously, but all are in service of the song.

Includes: Patience Kershaw &#; Lucky Gilchrist &#; Annachie Gordon

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The Bairns

Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize

&#;A magical album…a work of towering quality&#; The Telegraph

&#;Quite possibly the folk album of this generation. *****&#; Rock’n’Reel (R2)

&#;The Bairns is a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece…&#; Paul Morley, Observer Music Magazine (Top 50 Albums of the Year)

Includes: Felton Lonnin &#;  Fareweel Regality &#;  I Wish &#;  Sea Song &#; Blue Bleezing Bline Drunk

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Cruel Sister

&#;Joyous…refreshingly forthright and in-yer-face&#; Mojo Magazine Folk Album of the Year

&#;Beautiful, beautiful music&#; Phil Jupitus

The debut album by Rachel Unthank & The Winterset.

Includes: On A Monday Morning &#; Riverman &#; Bonny At Morn

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