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The Unthanks

English folk group

The Unthanks (until called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset)[1][2] are an English folk group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional English folk, particularly Northumbrian folk music, with other musical genres.[3][nb 1][nb 2] Their debut album, Cruel Sister, was Mojo magazine's Folk Album of the Year in [4] Of their subsequent albums, ten have received four or five-starred reviews in the British national press.

Their album Mount the Air, released in , won in the best album category in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.[5][6][7] In they released two albums featuring the songs and poems of Molly Drake, mother of singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake.

Lines (Parts One, Two & Three), a trilogy of albums about the Hull triple trawler tragedy (), the First World War and the poems of Emily Brontë – the principal link between them being their focusing on female perspectives across time – was released in [8] Their album, Live and Unaccompanied, was released in [9] Their album Sorrows Away was released in and received four-starred reviews in The Observer[10] and The Scotsman[11] and a five-starred review in the Financial Times.[12] Their double album, In Winter, received a four-starred review in the Financial Times[13] and a five-starred review in The Times.[14]

Career

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

Cruel Sister

Originally an all-female band, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset made their debut performance at Holmfirth Folk Festival on 7 May [15] and launched their debut album Cruel Sister at the same festival venue the following year, on 11 May Cruel Sister received support from a number of DJs on BBC Radio 2 and was subsequently awarded Folk Album of the Year by Mojo magazine.[4]

The Bairns

Their follow-up album, The Bairns, released on 20 August ,[16] was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards [17] and was runner-up for the Mercury Prize.[18] The album debuted in the UK Top Albums Chart at number in the week after the Mercury Prize award ceremony.[19] Reviewing The Bairns for BBC Music, Mel Ledgard described it as "an album with a cinematic quality, huge in dramatic atmosphere".[20] In a four-starred review, Robin Denselow of The Guardian nominated it as "one of the folk records of the year".[21]

The band were nominated for three further BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in (Best Band, Best Live Act, Horizon Award), and were successful in one category, receiving the Horizon Award at the ceremony in The Brewery, London.[22]

The Unthanks

Here's the Tender Coming

In , the band became the Unthanks, and their manager Adrian McNally and his childhood friend Chris Price[23] joined the group.

Here's the Tender Coming, their third album (and the first under the Unthanks moniker), was released on 14 September [2] It was Folk Album of the Year for The Guardian and also for Mojo magazine.[3]Sid Smith, of BBC Music, described it as an "astonishing record", "beautiful", "haunting", and "beguiling".[24] In a four-starred review for The Guardian, Colin Irwin said: "This album may not be quite as bleak as The Bairns, and the sound is more sophisticated, but they still sound like nobody else Tracks build slowly and mysteriously, but all are in service of the song.

Their arrangement of the title track − a traditional song about the emotional devastation wrought by press gangs − brilliantly encapsulates the story's fraught desperation. Their version of Nobody Knew She Was There, one of Ewan MacColl's lesser-known songs about his mother, painstakingly paints a similarly dramatic backdrop with more atmospheric brass, and they put their own stamp on the Nic Jones classic, Annachie Gordon."[25]

Last

Their fourth album, Last, was released on 14 March , reaching number 40 in the UK albums chart, and received a five-starred review in the Sunday Express and four-starred reviews in The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.

In his review for the Sunday Express, Martin Townsend proclaimed it "a gorgeously unhurried, utterly mesmerising masterpiece".[26] Thomas H Green of The Daily Telegraph said it was "string-laden and luscious but also delicate, wistful and melancholy".[27]Robin Denselow, for The Guardian, described it as "a bold and highly original set".[21] Sid Smith, for BBC Music, said that "Proving once again that sad songs are very often the best, their fourth album is brimming with material that is as haunting as it is beautiful."[28]

Writing in NME, Anthony Thornton said that the album "proves the mix of Rachel and Becky's voices to be one of the true wonders of 21st-century music".[29] As well as traditional material, the album included a song written by band member McNally ("Last"), and versions of songs by Jon Redfern ("Give Away Your Heart"), Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ("No One Knows I'm Gone"), King Crimson ("Starless") and Alex Glasgow ("Close the Coalhouse Door").

The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons

In a departure from their usual practice of showcasing material from their studio albums, the Unthanks performed two concerts at London's Union Chapel on 8 and 9 December consisting entirely of material written by Robert Wyatt and by Anohni of Anohni and the Johnsons.[30]The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons, a live album based on recordings of these concerts, was released on 28 November to coincide with a UK tour.

In a four-starred review, The Observer called the album "A triumphant excursion".[31]

The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band

In July , starting with concerts at Durham Cathedral and at London's Barbican Hall, they began a UK tour with the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, performing new brass arrangements of songs from all four Unthanks albums, as well as new material.[32]A live album, based on these concerts, was released in July In a four-starred review, Robin Denselow of The Guardian described the album as the Unthanks' boldest experiment yet.[33] In a five-starred review, Martin Townsend in the Daily Express said it was "easily the band's best and most mature album to date".[34] The album was designated Vol.

2 in the Unthanks' Diversions series and followed on from Vol. 1 (The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons).

Songs from the Shipyards

Songs from the Shipyards, Vol. 3 in the Unthanks' Diversions series, was released in November This is a studio-recorded album of songs from a soundtrack, compiled by the Unthanks, which was first performed live in February at Newcastle upon Tyne's Tyneside Cinema to accompany the showing of a documentary film by Richard Fenwick about the history of shipbuilding on the Tyne, Wear and Tees.[23][35][36] The album includes Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" and songs by Graeme Miles, Alex Glasgow, Archie Fisher, John Tams, Peter Bellamy and Jez Lowe, plus a centrepiece track, "The Romantic Tees", written by McNally.

In a four-starred review The Observer's Neil Spencer described it as "a stark creation, using little more than piano, violin and voices" but said that its minimalism "lends poignancy to songs and poetry narrating the glory and grime of a vanished era".[37]

Mount the Air

Their album Mount the Air, released in February , received five-starred reviews in The Daily Telegraph and The Irish Times.

The Telegraph's reviewer Helen Brown described the album as "a slow, swirling affair that mixes original material with traditional tales. Underpinned by McNally's cool, fluid piano it's simultaneously ancient and fresh."[38] Joe Breen, writing in The Irish Times, called it "their most ambitious work" and said that it "places them in the same league as the likes of The Gloaming and the Punch Brothers".[39] In a four-starred review for the Financial Times, David Honigmann said: "Once a bleak Northumbrian chamber folk outfit, the Unthanks have reinvented themselves on a symphonic scale, as witness the minute title track, ushered in on harps and with an orchestration that recalls Gil Evans's work for Miles Davis."[40] Robin Denselow, in a four-starred review for The Guardian, said: "This is a return to the gentle melancholia of Last, and while there are fine vocals from the Unthank sisters, the dominant figure is Rachel's husband, Adrian McNally, who plays keyboards and percussion, and produced and wrote much of the music It's a lush, often exquisite set".[41] Teddy Jamieson, writing in the Sunday Herald, said: "The Unthanks return with an album that takes the folk tradition the sisters grew up on and sails it into wilder waters Folk's storytelling tradition is still very much at the heart of this album.

But what thrills here is the sense of scale at play in the music, the unrushed, easeful way the musicians stretch into songs, let them linger without ever overstaying their welcome.

Niopha keegan biography for kids Discover traditional folk customs, rituals and traditions on the Tradfolk. From wassailing to Yule, and the arc of the year in-between. In their latest studio double album, The Unthanks In Winter, the North East group ventures into a seasonal fantasia that weaves folk, jazz and atmospherics into a comforting wrap against the cold. For the past year, Michael Depp has been working on a biography of the Unthanks and the wider moment in English folk music. Spending time with the band and their families, as well as undertaking dozens of interviews with colleagues, folk culture bearers and more, Michael sat with the band for the first play of their upcoming record, The Unthanks In Winter , in their Newcastle studio.

That and the earthy humanity of the sisters' voices."[42] However, The Observer's Neil Spencer bucked the trend, giving the album three stars, and criticising the "ambitious but lumbering orchestration Two instrumentals eschew the group's strength; more voices please".[43]

Mount the Air was the winner in the best album category in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.[5][6][7]

Memory Box and Archive Treasures –

In December the Unthanks released Memory Box, a package containing a new CD, a Christmas 7" single (the first Unthanks single to be issued in this format) and other items to commemorate the band's 10th anniversary.

The CD, Archive Treasures –, which was also released as a stand-alone item, includes exclusive live tracks, demos and outtakes and BBC session tracks.[44][45]

The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake

In May they released two albums, The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake and The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake: Extras, featuring songs written by Molly Drake, mother of Nick Drake.

The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake received a five-starred review in The Independent.[46]

Lines

Lines, a trilogy of albums about the Hull triple trawler tragedy, poetry of the First World War and the poems of Emily Brontë, was pre-released on the band's website in November and officially released on 22 February It received a four-starred review in The Guardian.[47]

Live and Unaccompanied

Live and Unaccompanied, released in March , is an audio CD of 13 songs, sung by Rachel and Becky Unthank and Niopha Keegan without the accompaniment of other members of The Unthanks band.

The album was recorded live at various venues in the UK and Ireland in April and May It was also packaged in a "special film edition" which includes a film, As We Go by musician and animator Ainslie Henderson (who is the partner of band member Becky Unthank), about The Unthanks' life on the road.[9]

The album is designated Vol.

5 in the Unthanks' Diversions series[9] and follows on from Vol. 1 (The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons), released in , Vol. 2 (The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band), released in , Vol. 3 (Songs from the Shipyards), released in and Vol. 4 (The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake), released in

Sorrows Away

Their album Sorrows Away was released on 14 October and received four-starred reviews in The Observer[10] and The Scotsman[48] and a five-starred review in the Financial Times.[49]

In Winter

Their double album, In Winter, received a four-starred review in the Financial Times[13] and a five-starred review in The Times.[14]

Other recordings

The Unthanks performed the title track "Oak, Ash and Thorn" on the Oak Ash Thorn, a compilation of songs by Rudyard Kipling set to music by Peter Bellamy.[50] The album Harbour of Songs, produced by McNally, featured the Unthanks in two songs, "The Ruler" with Nick Hornby and "Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard" with Ian MacMillan.[51] The latter track subsequently appeared on the Unthanks' album of archive recordings, Archive Treasures –.

In , the Unthanks contributed vocals to the song "A Forest" from the album , a project by Paul Hartnoll.[52]

Becky Unthank and Rachel Unthank are featured on Sting's album The Last Ship and on Kathryn Tickell's album Water of Tyne.[53]

Rachel Unthank provided vocals and cello on Simon Haworth's album Coast to Coast[54] and on his album Taking Routes.[55] She also played cello on Julian Sutton's album Melodeon Crimes.[56] Rachel Unthank and Adrian McNally provided backing vocals on Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell's EPThe North Farm Sessions and on their album Kite.[57]

Becky Unthank provided vocals and music boxes on Martin Green's album Crows' Bones and co-wrote two of the songs.[58] She also sings on Martin Green's album Flit.[59]

Television and radio

On 16 December (repeated on 4 March ), the Unthanks presented A Very English Winter: The Unthanks, a one-hour television programme on BBC Four.[60] This showed the customs that people celebrated on different days of the later autumn and winter, and ended with information about the famous Pancake Race at Olney.

Series 3 of the BBC Four TV series Detectorists was inspired by Davey Dodds' song "Magpie", as performed by the Unthanks on their album Mount the Air, and the song was played in the first episode of the series.[61]

On 3 August the group performed at The Proms in Prom Folk Music around Britain and Ireland.[62][63]

The Unthanks composed and performed the soundtrack for the BBC production of Worzel Gummidge,[64] and appeared on screen in the Christmas episode "Saucy Nancy".[65]

Personal lives

Rachel and Becky Unthank are sisters, born seven and a half years apart, who grew up in Ryton, Tyne and Wear.

Rachel graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in History and Theatre Studies; Becky studied History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University.[66] Their father, George Unthank, is an interior designer[67] and a well-known local Northumberland folk singer in a group called The Keelers, named after the boatmen (keelmen) who sailed the Tyne.[23][66][68][69] Their mother sings in folk choirs.[66]

Rachel was married to, but is now divorced from, group member Adrian McNally.[70] McNally grew up in a mining village near Barnsley, Yorkshire[71] and as well as being a member of the band is also its manager, musical arranger and producer.[23][35][72] They have two sons: George, born in ;[32] and Arthur, born in [73]

Members

Current

  • Rachel Unthank (voice, cello, kalimba, feet)[nb 3]
  • Becky Unthank (voice, autoharp, feet)
  • Niopha Keegan (violin, viola, voice)
  • Adrian McNally (piano, dulcitone, autoharp, marimba, celeste, kalimba, Fender Rhodes piano, chord organ, glockenspiel, Indian harmonium, percussion, voice)
  • Chris Price (guitar, bass guitar, double bass, ukulele, voice)

Former

Discography

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

The Unthanks

Singles Release date Notes
"Lucky Gilchrist" (Single edit) (Adrian McNally)[1]/ "Tar Barrel in Dale" (Live) (George Unthank)[69]/ "Sexy Sadie" (Lennon and McCartney) 30 November [76]Although sometimes described as an EP, this was released as a double A-sided single with a bonus track.

"Lucky Gilchrist" is a single edit of one of the tracks on the Unthanks' Here's the Tender Coming album. "Tar Barrel in Dale" is taken from a live performance on Radcliffe and Maconie, BBC Radio 2, on 23 December The "bonus track", "Sexy Sadie", first appeared on the Mojocovermount CD album of Beatles covers, MOJO Presents the White Album Recovered.

"Last" (Radio edit) (Adrian McNally) 13 June From the album Last
"Mount the Air" (Single version) (Adrian McNally/Traditional/Becky Unthank)/[77] "Died for Love" (Traditional, arranged by Adrian McNally) 8 December [78]From the album Mount the Air
"Flutter" (Becky Unthank/Adrian McNally) 16 February From the album Mount the Air
"Died For Love" (Traditional, arranged by Adrian McNally) 8 June [79]From the album Mount the Air
" Miles" (Chrissie Hynde) / "Tar Barrel in Dale" (George Unthank) (Christmas single )[80]11 December From the album Archive Treasures –
"The Bay of Fundy" 12 April From the album Sorrows Away
"The Old News" 22 July From the album Sorrows Away
"Dear Companions" (Tune: traditional; words by Becky Unthank and Ainslie Henderson) 21 October From the album In Winter

Various artists

Album Release date Notes
Oak, Ash, Thorn21 February The Unthanks perform one track: "Oak, Ash and Thorn" (Traditional, arranged by the Unthanks).

Harbour of SongsJune The Unthanks perform two tracks: "The Ruler" with Nick Hornby and "Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard" with Ian MacMillan.

Notes

  1. ^"They may call themselves folk musicians, but it is the strains of jazz, foreign scales and other unlikely influences that set The Unthanks apart from the rest of the Neo-folk movement."
    Ed Rex (10 December ).

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  2. ^"The Unthanks seem to regard folk music the same way Miles Davis regarded jazz: as a launchpad for exploring the wider possibilities."
    Graeme Thomson (18 March ). "The Unthanks&#;– Last". Uncut. Archived from the original on 24 July Retrieved 29 September
  3. ^Clog dancing&#;– and the sound that the feet make when they do it&#;– is integral to the Unthanks' stage act and to the recording of some of their songs.

    They include "feet", alongside vocals and instruments, on their albums' track listings.

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    The Unthanks until called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset [ 1 ] [ 2 ] are an English folk group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional English folk, particularly Northumbrian folk music , with other musical genres. Originally an all-female band , Rachel Unthank and the Winterset made their debut performance at Holmfirth Folk Festival on 7 May [ 15 ] and launched their debut album Cruel Sister at the same festival venue the following year, on 11 May In , the band became the Unthanks, and their manager Adrian McNally and his childhood friend Chris Price [ 23 ] joined the group. Here's the Tender Coming , their third album and the first under the Unthanks moniker , was released on 14 September Tracks build slowly and mysteriously, but all are in service of the song.

    "The Unthanks: 'We're miserable buggers and not afraid of it'". The Observer. Archived from the original on 12 January Retrieved 28 April

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    Biography for 2nd graders: Becky and Rachel Unthank with Niopha Keegan at TFF Rudolstadt, Their follow-up album, The Bairns, released on 20 August , [16] was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards [17] and was runner-up for the Mercury Prize. [18].

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