Name: The Unthanks - Magpie - High Quality Mp3 by The Unthanks
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Description: Taken from the 2015 album, Mount the Air, as seen live on Later With Jools Holland

such a beautiful song, my sister went to see you all in Dublin a few days ago and sent me to this song . Such strong enpowering words and the harmonies give it such depth and innocence somehow 💜💜

Raoul Vignal "Years in Marble" out on Talitres, may 28th, 2021.

Years in Marble

Red Fresco

Raoul Vignal - Red Fresco

Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit

Diggin' A Grave -Micah P. Hinson

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

The Unthanks - Magpie - High Quality Mp3

The Full exogenesis symphony ***Made by Muse***

Muse - Exogenesis Symphony Full

Taken from "Endless Summer" out on Morr Music May 2017
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Sóley’s latest offering is the warmth beneath the snow at the end of winter, the seeds waiting to grow as spring whispers to us. From the heavy organs, synths, and minor keys of her last album Ask The Deep, 'Endless Summer' emerges with a kind of hopeful sweetness, and feels even more vulnerable, as Sóley climbs with us to incandescence. "The idea for the album came pretty randomly one night in beginning of January 2016 when I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote a note to myself: ‘Write about hope and spring’," she says about the LP’s general direction. "So I painted my studio in yellow and purple, bought a grand piano, sat down and started playing, singing and writing."

And 'Endless Summer' delivers just that, opening with the song "Úa" (named after her young daughter) that washes over us like a hopeful dream. It’s based on an adventurous acoustic arrangement reminiscent of Joanna Newsom or Agnes Obel, which sets the tone for what is to follow in its wake. Throughout the new album, Sóley’s arrangements for a small orchestra give 'Endless Summer' a colorful touch: Take, for example, the track "Never Cry Moon", in which the sound of clarinet, trombone and cello beautifully engulf Sóley’s repetitive piano playing.

Comprised of eight songs, 'Endless Summer' is an album that’s grounded in fertile wisdom. Not just an ethereal dream of love and light, but a subtle, accumulative wisdom, a conscious choice to cling to vitality. One might say that one of Sóley’s signatures is the childlike wonder in her lyrics, and 'Endless Summer' delivers the same wonder, but with a kind of reverence for it, for she’s no longer a wanderer in a nightmare, but an enchanted lover of mystery.

With the album’s title track, "Endless Summer", Sóley soothes the wandering mind in her lyricism, asking: "Did you see the stars?/Did you see the sun come up?/You can find me in the flowers/You can find yourself some peace."

'Endless Summer' is like the Icelandic summer, a liminal, endless turning, a shift of consciousness, an endless awakening of continual brightness not without the acknowledgement of winter; it is the eruption from which the rebirth of light emerges.

Endless Summer

Sóley: Never Cry Moon

Sea Sew

05 I Don't Know

Jill Tracy - Evil Night Together

Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling - The Water

Saturn Return

Water Witch (feat. Brandi Carlile)

Plays Well With Others

Wolf Like Me ft. Shovels & Rope

Wolf Like Me ft. Shovels & Rope

"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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