Name: The King Of Rome by The Unthanks in Unthanks
Duration: 7 min 38 s
Description: Taken from the album Diversions Vol 2 - The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band

A beautiful song and then....... this ❤️❤️❤️

Greetings from Italy!...a "subject" of Rome! :-)

You speak to me and the people I miss most

Stunning track, wonderfully sensitive lyrics, and that voice .....!!

I've watched the video of this performance 20 or 30 times over the last few days. I love Dave Sudbury's bare-bones version but this  soars.

Unthanks

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

The King Of Rome

Taken from the album Here's The Tender Coming

Lucky Gilchrist

The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw

Starless

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)

Bohemian

Songs from the man on the moon watching the world go by.

Bandcamp

...colour of your name

The band's debut single, taken from 'The Sleeper'.

The Last of the Melting Snow

Pascal Finkenauer- Islands in the Stream(Rogers/Parton/Bee Gees Cover in Feist&Constantines Version)

Arrivals & Departures

God Has Taken A Vacation

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

Lines - Part Three - Emily Bronte

The Night Is Darkening Round Me

Love Remains

Counterfeit

Under The Sun

"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

The King Of Rome

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