The Unthanks

Forging links between folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel and her set have 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. "If the effect is austere, it is never bleak. Rather the starkness is graceful, gripping and utterly thrilling" says Nigel Williamson in HMV Magazine.

THE UNTHANKS MYSPACE