Past Event

The Unthanks

4th Feb 2011

Presenter: Mobile Industries
Website: http://www.mobileindustries.com.au
Event Duration: 240 minutes

Following on from their Mercury Prize nominated sophomore album The Bairns and relentless touring across the globe, Geordie folk re-inventors Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are back - with a slight name tweak to The Unthanks, reflecting the new line-up and album. Here’s The Tender Coming, the third stunning release rests not one jot on the incomparable sound that has earned them admirers from the ranks of Radiohead, Portishead, Robert Wyatt, Ben Folds, Nic Jones, Ewan McGregor and Nick Hornby.

Here's The Tender Coming has that Unthank mix of traditional song, self-penned songs written in the folk idiom and material imaginatively adapted from writers little known outside the folk world, mostly from the North East of England. Yet in Annachie Gordon there are overtones of Steve Reich counterpoint; Beach Boys / Fleet Foxes playful harmony in opener Because He Was A Bonnie Lad; shades of Antony & The Johnsons in the opening to Flowers of the Town; the quietly shambolic  eccentricity of Robert Wyatt in Living By The Water, and in Lucky Gilchrist the playful joy of Sufjan Stevens.

Here's The Tender Coming is the sound of a creative team with no interest in treading old and trusted ground, preferring the adventures of a new chapter to the comfort of resting on laurels.

“Even more satisfying, compelling and varied than the Mercury-nominated The Bairns. Haunting, original and magnificent" 4 stars, The Guardian

"Folk music's most beguiling act is back" 4.5 stars The Sun

"Absolutely exquisite. A real work of art. I will be playing it at least forever" Paul Morley

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DOORS FROM 8.00PM