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“Music as tough as it is gentle, as ancient as it is modern, and as coldly desolate as it is achingly intimate. They might not end up being the best-selling British all-girl group of all time, but they’re well on their way to being the most charismatic and imaginative”-Paul Morley, The Observer, UK
“Every now and again, and I mean, every now and again, once in a blue moon type of every now and again, you hear music that is so complete, so wonderful, unique and yet familiar that it stops you in your tracks. They have that blue moon magic about them, and they have it in spades.”
-BBC Website Live Review
Forging links between folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel Unthank has blown a bracing north-easterly gale through traditional English song, casting it in an endlessly inventive and playful new mould. Transcendent and grounded music folds around unsentimental old, new and imaginatively borrowed stories of booze, brawls, abuse, loss, fear, infantile death, depravity and sorrow. Unlikely covers of songs by Robert Wyatt, Antony and the Johnsons and Bonnie Prince Billy shouldn’t sit easily alongside traditional English song, but Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are an unprecedented concern. Winners of the BBC Horizon Award 2008, their debut USA tour coincides with the American release of their awarding winning second album The Bairns, described back home as “glorious” by Uncut and by Channel 4 as “not just a great record but an important one; a classic in its own lifetime”.
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