Opera (Dobrawa Czocher & Hannes Kretzer Collaborative Rework)

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Pause (The Shadow Line Theme)

Pre-order both the single and the new album now from www.the-unthanks.com
Two years in the making and four years since their last studio album, Mount The Air is the new record by The Unthanks, and the title track is the first single from it - an arresting revision of the ten minute opening piece, that marks their return in audacious and scintillating style. 

When The Unthanks released Last in 2011, Uncut wrote that “The Unthanks seem to regard folk music the same way Miles Davis regarded jazz: as a launch pad for exploring the wider possibilities”. The Unthanks have taken that analogy a step further on Mount The Air, with a beautiful opening title track and single that has echoes of Miles Davis and Gill Evans in their Sketches of Spain period, and climaxes with a euphoria reminiscent of Arcade Fire or Elbow, but without guitars, creating power instead with breathtaking musical colour and beauty.

Written by pianist and producer and husband of Rachel Unthank, Adrian McNally, Mount the Air is based on the themes of a one-verse traditional ditty, found in a book of Dorset songs in Cecil Sharp House by Becky Unthank, who co-writes some of the words with McNally. The piece features the playing of the world-class trumpet player, Tom Arthurs; a former BBC New Generation Artist and Elysian Quartet collaborator, now immersed in the Berlin improv scene.

Released Monday 8th Dec 2014	
Pre-Orders available from Tuesday 11th Nov 2014
Limited Edition (500 copies) 10 Inch Vinyl available from band website only

Mount The Air (Single Version)

The Way You Dream - Michael Stipe and Asha Bhosle

The Evangelist

Demon Days

Like I Used To

I Only Ever Loved Your Ghost

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