{"title":"The Unthanks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Unthanks are an English folk group hailing from Tyneside in Northumberland. Founded by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, the band originally went by the name Rachel Unthank \u0026amp; The Winterset. However, in 2009 they changed their name when Rachel's manager and husband Adrian McNally joined as a musician. With their unique blend of traditional folk music and modern influences, The Unthanks have become a beloved fixture in the folk music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar to other renowned artists such as Eliza Carthy, June Tabor, and Karine Polwart, The Unthanks have carved out their own distinct sound that resonates with fans across the globe. Drawing inspiration from acts like The Imagined Village and Bellowhead, their music showcases a deep appreciation for tradition while also pushing boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a discography that spans over two decades, The Unthanks continue to captivate audiences with their heartfelt lyrics and haunting melodies. Their work has garnered critical acclaim and earned them comparisons to legendary performers like Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to their enchanting soundscapes, exploring The Unthanks' catalogue is sure to be a rewarding musical journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mount-the-air-dvw6dg","title":"Mount the Air","description":"\u003cp\u003eMount the Air, the eighth album by English folk group the Unthanks, was released on 9 February 2015. It received five-starred reviews in The Daily Telegraph and The Irish Times and four-starred reviews in the Financial Times and The Guardian. In a four-starred review for the Financial Times, David Honigmann said: \"Once a bleak Northumbrian chamber folk outfit, the Unthanks have reinvented themselves on a symphonic scale, as witness the 10-minute title track, ushered in on harps and with an orchestration that recalls Gil Evans’s work for Miles Davis.\"Robin Denselow, in a four-starred review for The Guardian, said: \"This is a return to the gentle melancholia of Last, and while there are fine vocals from the Unthank sisters, the dominant figure is Rachel’s husband, Adrian McNally, who plays keyboards and percussion, and produced and wrote much of the music... It’s a lush, often exquisite set\". Alexis Petridis, also writing in The Guardian, said it was \"ambitious and rooted in folk traditions, without being hard work for the listener\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RabbleRouser Music","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50469609701707,"sku":"2217767","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/product_id._1af860e2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727364131"},{"product_id":"sorrows-away","title":"Sorrows Away","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps you heard. The most important and best loved British folk group in the last 20 years have been on the road since mid-April 2022 showcasing \u003ci\u003eSorrows Away\u003c\/i\u003e. The anticipation for the delayed record release is all the greater, after nights like the London Palladium show, which climaxed with a mass sing. On many other nights too, in Edinburgh and Dublin, Newcastle and Nottingham, sold out audiences already on their feet for a standing ovation, would sing the album title, sonorously, defiantly, again and again, while the band presided silently, with wide smiles and the odd tear, before rejoining in chorus for one last time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the one hand, it shows that a band who have been making us cry for nearly 20 years, have done the unthinkable and made some music of joy and light! Inviting us after two years of Brexit, Covid and no live music to banish our 'sorrows away', The Unthanks have turned two simple words into a prayer - a cathartic incantation to sing at the top of our voices, from the depths of our souls - \u003ci\u003eSorrows Away!\u003c\/i\u003e - sending us home feeling like we have seen off the past, welcomed in the new and reconnected with one another. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first summer of lockdown, The Unthanks lost their studio to property developers. Producer and band leader Adrian McNally had to relocate home in order to find new space. \u003ci\u003eSorrows Away\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded entirely at home near Hexham, Northumberland and is perhaps the most complete Unthanks album to date, showing greater contrasts between light and dark, joy and sorrow, intimate and epic, bitter and sweet. There is also archetypal Unthanks territory - rich, tender, exploratory and long- form. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RabbleRouser Music","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50470073991499,"sku":"1167550","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50470074417483,"sku":"1167548","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50470074941771,"sku":"1167549","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1fed30be-ca46-4c19-9e55-5bdf6b5b470d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727371958"},{"product_id":"here-s-the-tender-coming","title":"Here's The Tender Coming","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeordie folk inventors Rachel Unthank and the Winterset are back with a name tweak (The Unthanks), revised line-up and a new album. Following on from their Mercury prize nomination for 2007's \u003ci\u003eThe Bairns\u003c\/i\u003e, the new album and line-up adds strings, horns and most arrestingly of all, drums and percussion for a much more developed, layered sound this time around. \u003ci\u003eHere's The Tender Coming\u003c\/i\u003e is the usual Unthank mix of traditional songs, self-penned and songs written in the folk idiom - many imaginatively borrowed from writers little known outside the folk world and mostly from the North East of England. Yet this is not just folk - in Annachie Gordon there are overtones of Steve Reich Counterpoint, and the Beach Boys \/ Fleet Foxes playful harmony in opener Because he Was a Bonnie Lad. There are even shades of Antony and the Johnsons in the opening to 'flowers of the town' or the quietly shambolic eccentricity of Robert Wyatt in 'living by the water', and in 'lucky gilchrist' the playful joy of Sufjan Stevens. 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Without doubt the most confident and important Unthanks album to date, \u003ci\u003eLast\u003c\/i\u003e was made predominantly at the snowed-under Northumberland farmhouse that is home of Rachel and Adrian. Having made the highly successful \u003ci\u003eHere's the Tender Coming\u003c\/i\u003e in a studio, the return to home recording might have signalled a move back to the intimacy of their earlier work, but in practice, \u003ci\u003eLast\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the epic hallmarks of a masterpiece, in terms of the scale and atmosphere of the setting. This in part is down to the unlikely locations the Unthanks chose to gamble on. Having written last during a soundcheck at Snape Maltings, a beautiful Victorian wooden maltings converted into a concert hall, Mcnally couldn't resist but go back and record it there on the piano and acoustics he had fallen in love with. The piano for some of the other tracks was done there, and then the Unthanks discovered a local Northumberland village hall in which they recorded the strings, along with the haunting group vocals on the opening track 'gan to the kye'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RabbleRouser Music","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50521105596747,"sku":"2052400","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50521100943691,"sku":"2052398","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Last_d8994fa1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727988145"},{"product_id":"in-winter-3","title":"In Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt this point in their almost 20 years together, it’s easy to imagine that The Unthanks must surely have done a seasonal winter album already, but no! The Unthanks premiere their dream-like winter fantasia – embracing both the dark and the light in the most ritualistic of seasons – moving in and out of focus – like a memory – a hymnal to our shared winter experience. Echoes of winter tunes known throughout the western world, mix with the traditional and the newly written, all passed with great care and love through The Unthanks filter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RabbleRouser Music","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50829877838155,"sku":"2232625","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CDx2","offer_id":50829874135371,"sku":"2232624","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Packshot-The-Unthanks-In-Winter-1400-x-1400-pixels_691a50ef_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731528965"},{"product_id":"diversions-vol-3-songs-from-the-shipyards","title":"Diversions Vol. 3: Songs From The Shipyards","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiversions Vol. 3 contains the music created by The Unthanks for the Tyneside Cinema commissioned film of the same name, Songs from the Shipyards – a beautiful and moving film, tracing the story of shipbuilding. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiversions Vol. 3 is a studio album that documents a non-sequential ‘best of’ the live soundtrack.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eThough The Unthanks became a 10-piece live band from 2009, Songs from the Shipyards is a much more sparse and intimate affair, bringing the vocals of Rachel and Becky sharply back to the fore, and was the first record to capture purely the core 5-piece creative unit that is The Unthanks. The centrepiece of the record is The Romantic Tees – a self-penned piece devised by Adrian McNally, inspired by the poetry of the late Teesside writer Graeme Miles, written to accompany a part of the film called Launch – the beautiful, iconic, cult 1973 film made by Amber Films. The album was the last of three Diversions volumes released inside a prolific 12 month period, and with little time to squeeze it in, The Unthanks recorded most of the album during a tour, finding Vale Studios more or less ‘on route’; an old country house in Worcestershire converted into a studio full of vintage gear and mics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RabbleRouser Music","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57559249486155,"sku":"R4174-3836","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_0518ef42-4f1d-4322-842b-9ca548f34260.jpg?v=1781200859"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/the-unthanks.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}