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- Summary: The British folk band changed its name from Rachel Unthank & the Winterset to its current (shorter) name after a lineup change.
- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Folk
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The Unthanks’ voices are hair-raisingly exquisite in the most sororal of ways.
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Rarely has the deep past sounded so stirring, or so modern. [Oct 2009, p.94]
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MojoAny notions that this [name change]--and additions of brass and strings--is a major label ploy to smooth their edges and distance them from the spiky traditional elements that chracterised "The Bairns" is soon decimated by this new album's equally moody, uncompromising nature. [Nov 2009, p.102]
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Here's an album that's even more satisfying, compelling, and varied than the Mercury-nominated The Bairns--though only slightly less bleak.
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As good as their 2007 Mercury Prize-nominated album, The Bairns, undoubtedly was, Here’s the Tender Coming raises the standard higher still.
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Musically, there's much greater richness and variety in the arrangements now, heightening the shadings that have always been there, and bringing them to the fore, while also making it easier for a wider audience.
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Q MagazineTheir trad arrangements of others' songs are bewitching, but it's a pity they don't pen more original songs. [Nov 2009, p.112]
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