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May 27, 2011Though it's one of the few songs on Last that isn't sad and bleak, their voices come together just so, and the result is mystifying and devastating.
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May 2, 2011This is some of the most mature and eloquent music I've heard in quite a while.
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Apr 22, 2011Last is not the sort of music you'll want to play at a party on a Friday night, but if you're looking for the proper accompaniment as you ponder life's twists and turns on a rainy Sunday afternoon, the Unthanks will give you all the deeply shaded wisdom you could use.
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Apr 18, 2011The Unthank sisters' voices form the musical core of the album. Whether they are singing together or as soloists, the vocals are richly sung with deep emotion.
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Mar 29, 2011Somehow the group manages, with masterfully restrained piano and strings, to wring joy from bygone heartache.
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Mar 21, 2011Last retains the intimacy of their previous recordings, but it's augmented with more orchestral flourishes.
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Mar 17, 2011It's this ability to pare back extraneous matter and to stare unflinchingly into the very soul of a song that makes Last such a spellbinding, if at times unsettling, experience.
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Mar 16, 2011Apart from a short reprise of the McNally-penned title track this, then, is how the album closes, and the lasting image that it leaves you with. It is a fitting summary of all that is great, and troubling about this unique, uncompromising band.
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Mar 16, 2011The fourth album from the award-winning strings-and-sisters folksters is a thing of shivery and spooky charms.
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Mar 16, 2011There's not the emotional range of the last Unthanks album, Here's the Tender Coming, but it's a bold and highly original set.
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Mar 16, 2011They take a sombre aspect of their native Northumbrian traditional music, regional accent and dialect intact, and, sprinkling in a few intriguing covers along the way, build something string-laden and luscious but also delicate, wistful and melancholy.
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UncutMar 17, 2011This is a bleakly beautiful record which unfolds slowly. [Apr 2011, p.87]
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Q MagazineMar 17, 2011Bewitching and hugely ambitious. [Apr 2011, p.110]
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MojoMar 16, 2011This is a big album in every way, full of ambitious layers, heavy on piano, strings, brass and drums producing vast soundscapes and lavish arrangements which place strong emphasis on the atmospheric undercurrent of some unerringly dramatic material. [Apr 2011, p.99]
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