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Folk.

“There are few times when you discover a band and they stalk immediately to the heart of everything you love and hold dear.”        Maxine Peake

Sorrows Away, the latest album from The Unthanks, not only marks a welcome return but also brings one of their most extraordinary albums to date.

For many, The Unthanks’ ‘Mount the Air’ (BBC Folk Album Of The Year 2015) marked a significant transformation in their music, balancing the orchestral with the intimate for which they have become masters. The dynamics at the core of what is one of the most distinctive-sounding bands around appear to have not really changed. Still at the heart are two sisters, Rachael and Becky, with their uncanny blend of familial harmony singing.

Whether it is due to the interlocking of accents, years of attunement and paired practice or rather down to genetic similarities in tone; together they are heard as one strain, tight-knit like the double helix braiding of DNA. 
David Weir, Folk Radio

If the sisters are the heart, Adrian McNally, as once mentioned on these pages, is like the vessels, the veins and arteries down which the music flows to the limits of its creation. At the same time, Niopha Keegan, Chris Price, Lizzie Jones and the others who make up the band put the flesh on the bones. What’s most remarkable, though, is that they somehow manage to reinvent themselves on each album. Adrian McNally once told us:

…we constantly demand that we reinvent ourselves as a band in order to become ‘different bands’ – one which is the right sort of line-up or ensemble to perform and re-imagine the next project which is invariably unrelated to the last incarnation.
This is, in part, what makes a new album from The Unthanks so highly anticipated and welcome. Since Mount the Air, they have delivered some remarkable gems. In 2017, as part of their Diversions series, they introduced us to the simple, personal, and universal wisdom of the songs and poems of Molly Drake, while their 2019 Lines project, a trilogy of albums, offered three discrete song cycles inspired by poetry, the principal link between them being their focusing on female perspectives across time.

Sorrows Away not only marks a welcome return, it’s also one of their most extraordinary albums to date. Of the ten tracks on the album, eight are traditional folk songs to which they bring their unique interpretations; these are, in turn, beautifully complimented by a new song written by each of the sisters.

Tracks:
1. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (7:45)
2. The Sandgate Dandling Song (8:49)
3. The Old News (3:56)
4. The Royal Blackbird (4:02)
5. The Isabella Colliery Coke Ovens (4:05)
6. The Bay of Fundy (4:29)
7. The Month of January (Uncle Rat) (4:38)
8. My Singing Bird (7:05)
9. Waters of Tyne (2:58)
10. Sorrows Away (Love Is Kind) (9:11)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RbIEqABRcg