Tag: The Unthanks

Album | Unthank : Smith – Nowhere and Everywhere

The Unthanks have always taken risks, how else can you explain covering King Crimson’s ‘Starless’? Yet when Rachel Unthank joined with Maximo Park’s Paul Smith as Unthank : Smith on Nowhere and Everywhere, no one really knew what to expect.…

Album | The Unthanks – Sorrows Away

I’ve got an unsent greeting card sat on the side which reads “I heard you’ve been watching a lot of news lately so here’s a card with a comforting duck on it”. I’ve not sent it to anyone yet because…

Album | The Unthanks – Lines

Lines, a trilogy of song cycles from the Unthanks inspired by poetry and focusing on three female perspectives over time – World War One poets, Emily Bronte and Hull fishing worker Lillian Bilocca – is a staggering meeting of music…

News | The Unthanks return with Volume 4 of their Diversions & tour dates for Spring 2017

For Folks Sake favourites The Unthanks have announced their latest release, Diversions Volume 4: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake, set for release on May 26th 2017. Ostensibly a continuation of their exploitative work into the folk traditions, Songs of……

End Of The Road Festival 2015: Sufjan Stevens, Laura Marling, Marika Hackman, The Unthanks, This Is The Kit

It’s 3pm, a couple of days after the glorious End Of The Road Festival 2015 and I’m online buying early bird tickets for EOTR 2016. I’m diligently clicking and refreshing waiting for the link to explode into life so I…

Competition | Win tickets to The Unthanks’ 10th anniversary gig

It’s been a decade since The Unthanks first started making music as Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, and they continue to go from strength to strength – with their latest critically-acclaimed record Mount The Air winning them new fans. They…

News | The Unthanks: new single and Glastonbury appearance

Fronted by sisters Rachel and Becky, The Unthanks are an English folk group who are known for their unique blending of traditional folk tunes with other, eclectic sounds and influences. The band’s 8th studio album, Mount The Air, was released in…

Album | The Unthanks – Mount The Air

The Unthanks’ latest album is filled to the brim with the epic, the grandiose, and the fairytale-­esque. The finest moments of Mount The Air are perfect slices of modern folk, always with a nod to some of the genre’s greatest…