Love that song. Love your music. Hope I can see you on stage in France one day.

Fantastic track, look forward to the lp x

Such a special sound!  Becky's voice is very special on this and the folk and jazz influences just hit the spot effortlessly.  Looking forward to the album arriving shortly!

I was so looking forward to hearing you sing this live in October at Lancaster, sadly it's sold-out already which is a shame.

Fine version, & Tom Arthur's solo is a masterpiece of elegance & concision.

Love the realness of your songs, such a pure moving voice!!

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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

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"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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