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  • Summary: The latest full-length release for British folk group The Unthanks was produced by Adrian McNally.
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  1. Oct 18, 2022
    90
    It's wonderful to have them back, and on such imperious form. [Nov 2022, p.30]
  2. Oct 18, 2022
    80
    The Unthanks don’t falter on what is their first “proper” album in seven years, though the nine minutes of the Sandgate Dandling Song, a Victorian ballad about domestic violence, inclines to the ponderous. They are better when airborne, as on The Old News or Royal Blackbird, a Jacobite song given a lively violin arrangement.
  3. Mojo
    Oct 18, 2022
    80
    There's often an old-world gravitas and a contemporary lightness of touch at play simultaneously, the tangible lineage of these story-rich, often long-form songs reaching deep within you. [Nov 2022, p.89]
  4. Oct 18, 2022
    80
    Sorrows Away is a landmark album by an extraordinary band, full of brutal truths, hope, and moments of musical transcendence that will resonate for generations to come.
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