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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.
Biography examples Becky and Rachel Unthank with Niopha Keegan at TFF Rudolstadt, Their follow-up album, The Bairns, released on 20 August , [16] was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards [17] and was runner-up for the Mercury Prize. [18].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.
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.
Niopha keegan biography definition Niopha Keegan is a singer and fiddle player brought up in the London Irish tradition, recruited by The Unthanks before she could leave Newcastle after completing the Folkworks Folk Degree, while the multi-talented and multi-instrumentalist and singer Chris Price, grew up three doors from Adrian McNally in the same Yorkshire mining village.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.
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.
Niopha keegan biography definition wikipedia Read the full biography of Niopha Keegan, including facts, birthday, life story, profession, family and more.Top 50 Albums Of The Year, The Guardian and Uncut. 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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