Sorrows Away

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Neil Spencer (8 February 2015). "The Unthanks: Mount the Air review– more voices please". The Observer . Retrieved 4 April 2015. Tell me about the lyrics in Old News. They slowly whittle down, so it just becomes Old News / Whole Truth at the very end. Jude Rogers (25 March 2020). "Ongoing Adventures: Rachel Unthank's Favourite Albums". The Quietus . Retrieved 26 March 2020.

Alex Gallacher (30 October 2015). "Memory Box– Limited Edition 10th Anniversary Box of Unthanks Treasure". Music news. Folk Radio UK . Retrieved 12 December 2015. It’s quite a rare thing now. They’ve really got everything you could want from music. And I’m very fussy.”An T-Switch induction loop in some areas of the auditorium (please indicate when booking as this facility is not available on the balcony) Sorrows Away, the latest album from The Unthanks, not only marks a welcome return but also brings one of their most extraordinary albums to date. The second “new” song, following The Old News, is Rachel Unthank’s instant classic, The Isabella Colliery Coke Ovens. It’s a sliver of bucolic beauty in which Unthank recounts a Tyneside walk among the remnants of the region’s steel ovens and reflects on the way that moments of pleasure can carry us through hard times.

Neil Spencer (20 November 2011). "The Unthanks: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons– review". The Observer . Retrieved 30 November 2011. Alex Gallacher (11 November 2014). "The Unthanks– New Album & Video: Mount The Air". Folk Radio UK . Retrieved 11 January 2015. David Honigmann (6 February 2015). "The Unthanks: Mount The Air— review". Financial Times . Retrieved 11 February 2015.Reinhard Zierke (30 January 2015). "Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . Retrieved 6 April 2015. The Unthanks have covered a lot of ground in the past decade and watching them evolve over this period has been truly inspiring.”

We were really drawn to songs that gave us comfort or reminded us of singing with other people, that’s such a big part of our lives Robin Denselow (2 December 2009). "The Unthanks: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 March 2015. McNally goes on to explain some of the modus operandi behind his arrangements, explaining that “on the surface, a lot of folk music – because it comes from those unaccompanied voices -might appear to be simplistic, but often the message in them is anything but. So a lot of folk songs are traditionally performed in a very throwaway style, in a jolly, high tempo, when the song might actually be about something like being pressed to war. So when we add layers musically, it’s also to add more layers in terms of the storytelling.” Martin Townsend (26 July 2012). "CD Review: The Unthanks, Diversions Vol 2". Daily Express. London . Retrieved 15 August 2012. Reinhard Zierke (13 April 2017). "Flit". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . Retrieved 17 May 2017.Reinhard Zierke (5 November 2016). "Water of Tyne". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . Retrieved 17 May 2017. Their follow-up album, The Bairns, released on 20 August 2007, [14] was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 [15] and was runner-up for the 2008 Mercury Prize. [16] The album debuted in the UK Top 200 Albums Chart at number 178 in the week after the Mercury Prize award ceremony. [17] Reviewing The Bairns for BBC Music, Mel Ledgard described it as "an album with a cinematic quality, huge in dramatic atmosphere". [18] In a four-starred review, Robin Denselow of The Guardian nominated it as "one of the folk records of the year". [19] The Unthanks' 'Archive Treasures' to be released 11 December" (Press release). Prescription PR. 1 December 2015 . Retrieved 7 December 2015. The Unthanks have teased us recently with talk of their upbeat, pop album, but to some extent it’s true. “It’s more hopeful and warm, less melancholy, which isn’t to say there’s no deaths! But I think we were drawn to songs that gave us comfort and made us feel more hopeful.”, explains Rachel Unthank. “There’s not quite as much outright despair.” The stunning opener, The Great Silkie Of Sule Skerry, is a case in point. It’s a traditional Orkney song, a supernatural tragedy in which a male selkie (a Scots word for a changeling capable of transforming between human and seal forms) visits his human lover to inform her that he is the father of their child. He’d deceived her as a human and returned to his home in Sule Skerry – now he’s demanding that she hand over their son in exchange for a purse of gold. As if this wasn’t enough, the selkie informs her that she will eventually marry a “proud gunner” who is destined to shoot and kill her son and the selkie. It may sound fantastical on the surface, but it’s underpinned by themes of seduction, deception, control, and devastation – the woman is helpless to do anything about any of it.

R: I think every generation probably thinks they’ve got all the answers. You know, like other people haven’t thought about it. But there’s a lot of inherited knowledge too. Thomas H Green (11 March 2011). " 'Last' by The Unthanks' is luscious and delicate". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 28 April 2011. Thank you for supporting The Unthanks and for protecting the art form of recorded music, by buying it! John Crosby (September 2009). "The Unthanks: A new line-up". John Crosby music publicity/PR . Retrieved 26 May 2017. David Honigman (7 October 2022). "The Unthanks: Sorrows Away album review — upbeat folk celebration". Financial Times . Retrieved 16 October 2022.Sorrows Away is a landmark album by an extraordinary band, full of brutal truths, hope, and moments of musical transcendence that will resonate for generations to come. If there was such a thing still as having a favourite band like in the old days, I’d say they were my favourite band.” On 3 August 2018 the group performed at The Proms in Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland. Their set included "Magpie", "Gan to the Kye", "Mount the Air" and "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry". [62] [63] [64] Using the traditional music of the North East of England as a starting point, the influence of Miles Davis, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The Johnsons, King Crimson and Tom Waits can be heard in the band’s fourteen records to date, earning them a Mercury Music Prize nomination and international acclaim along the way. Martin Townsend (13 March 2011). "Album review– The Unthanks: Last (Rabblerouser/EMI)". Sunday Express. London . Retrieved 24 August 2014.