The 3rd single from Sorrows Away by The Unthanks, described by Uncut as "a masterpiece of nuanced drama".

Sorrows Away

The Royal Blackbird

Taken from the album Diversions Volume 3 - Songs From The Shipyards

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A Great Northern River

Taken from the album Here's The Tender Coming

Because He Was A Bonny Lad

Taken from the album Diversions Volume 1 - The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons (Live from Union Chapel, London)

Bird Gerhl

Gan To The Kye

Taken from the album Diversions Vol 1 - The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons

Spiralling

Taken from the album Diversions Vol 3 - Songs From The Shipyards

The Romantic Tees (1 - 3)

Taken from the album Diversions Vol 2 - The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band

The King Of Rome

Trimdon Grange Explosion

Sea Song

Here's The Tender Coming

Lucky Gilchrist

The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw

Starless

I Wish, I Wish (Album Version)

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)

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Flutter, released 16.02.15, taken from the new album, Mount The Air by The Unthanks, released 09.02.15. 

Flutter

The third single by The Unthanks from the album Mount the Air. “Strong, stange and true” ★★★★ Q Magazine “An exquisite set” ★★★★ The Guardian “Utterly beguiling” ★★★★ The Independent “An album of studied precision and endless textures” ★★★★ Mojo Magazine 

Died For Love

Taken from the 2015 album, Mount the Air, as seen live on Later With Jools Holland

The Unthanks - Magpie - High Quality Mp3

The Unthanks cover 2000 Miles for Christmas 2005, taken from the new 10th Anniversary album, The Unthanks - Archive Treasures (2005-2015). Buy now from www.the-unthanks.com

2000 Miles (Christmas Single 2015)

War Film is inspired by a poem by WW1 poet Teresa Hooley, taken from the forthcoming record World War One by The Unthanks. The record is Part Two of Lines, a trilogy of records by The Unthanks and inspired by poetry, and available exclusively from www.the-unthanks.com Pre-Order links up very soon.

Lines - Part Two - World War One

The Unthanks - Lines - Part Two - World War One

War Film

The opening track from our forthcoming record World War One, Roland And Vera, originally conceived by Sam Lee, Nico Brown, Cosmo Sheldrake and Gwendolen Chatfield in development work for A Time And A Place, before being arranged not once but twice by McNally, firstly for the 2014 performances, and then again this summer for the record, McNally feeling the first attempt was incomplete. The song is adapted from letters between frontline soldier Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain, an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist. By the time Vera received the letter, Roland had died at the front of a gunshot wound, aged 20. Her reply is therefore written knowing that her fiancé was dead.

Lines - Part Two - WW1

Roland And Vera (feat. Sam Lee)

From Lines - Part One - Lillian Bilocca available from www.the-unthanks.com/lines/

Lines - Part One - Lillian Bilocca

The Sea Is A Woman

From Lines - Part Two - World War One more info from www.the-unthanks.com

Suicide In The Trenches

Taken from Lines - Part Three - Emily Bronte 
More info from www.the-unthanks.com/lines/

Lines - Part Three - Emily Bronte

Deep Deep Down In The Silent Grave

She Dried Her Tears And They Did Smile

Remembrance

Lines

The Night Is Darkening Round Me

"They make my heart beat faster, or smile a lot, or cry. I'm glad to be around at the same time as them."
Martin Freeman

The Unthanks seem to regard folk music the same way Miles Davis regarded jazz: as a launch pad for exploring the wider possibilities.” Uncut Magazine

“Just beautiful” Lauren Laverne

Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and the only British folk representation in The Guardian’s and Uncut’s best albums of last decade (worldwide, all genres).

Notable fans - Martin Freeman, Elvis Costello, Colin Firth, Robert Wyatt, Portishead, Radiohead, Ben Folds, Antony Hegarty, Ryan Adams, Rosanne Cash, Dawn French, Matt Lucas, Al Murray, Paul Morley, Ewan McGregor, Nick Hornby.

“Rachel and Becky's voices are one of the true wonders of 21st-century music" NME

‘Intimate, epic, overflowing with feeling and musical intelligence’ The Independent

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