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The Unthanks - A Retrospective (2011)
mp3 320 kbps | 128 MB (5% recovery inf.) | covers
Folk, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop

&#147;British folk group the Unthanks took shape in 2004 under a different name, Rachel Unthank & the Winterset. Formed by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, the Winterset released two albums and earned a loyal following in the U.K. before switching monikers in 2009. With a slightly different lineup in place -- one that featured Rachel&#146;s husband, pianist Adrian McNally, as well as fiddler Niopha Keegan and guitarist Chris Price -- the Unthanks released their debut album, Here&#146;s the Tender Coming, that same year. <AMG>

Empathetic stories of love, loss, birth, death, brawls and booze make for a rollercoaster ride through the human condition, as Rachel and Becky&#146;s folk-club unaccompanied singing upbringing is set against otherworldly musical pictures, arranged by a band with influences from Steve Reich to Miles Davies, Martin Hayes to Robert Wyatt, Portishead to Sufjan Stevens, Penguin Cafe Orchestra to Antony & The Johnsons. It&#146;s hard to conceive how music could sound so traditional and adventurous at once. It is a spell that has earned them fans as disperate as members of Radiohead and Portishead, Elvis Costello, Robert Wyatt, Ewan McGregor, Ryan Adams, Colin Firth, Ben Folds, Rosanne Cash, Nick Hornby and Dawn French! They have no bigger fan than in Britain&#146;s leading music journalist Paul Morley who has described them as &#147;two of my favourite singers of all time.. music that is both supernaturally ancient and defiantly modern, as coldly desolate as achingly intimate&#148;. <bowers-wilkins.com>&#148;

01. Because He Was A Bonnie Lad
02. Felton Lonnin
03. The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw
04. Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
05. Blue&#146;s Gaen Oot O&#146;The Fashion
06. Fair Rosamund
07. Annachie Gordon
08. Lucky Gilchrist
09. Here&#146;s The Tender Coming
10. Bonny At Morn
11. Fareweel Regality