Two years in the making, the newly-released album by British contemporary folk band The Unthanks is a majestic collection. If all the lyrics are still curated from old poetry and song collections, learnt from other singers or newly written in the mode of traditional ballads, the overall sound of Mount the Air (2015) points to ... [Continue Reading]
The Unthanks
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset: The Bairns
A song only becomes a folk song when people start singing it. Rachel Unthank The Unthanks are an English folk band from Newcastle formed in 2004. Originally an all-female quartet, Rachel and Becky Unthank with Niopha Keegan (violin & voice) and Belinda O’Hooley (piano & voice) recorded their début Cruel ... [Continue Reading]