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Sid Smith, of [[BBC Music]], described it as an "astonishing record", "beautiful”, “haunting”, and “beguiling".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fb9p|title= Here’s the Tender Coming raises the group’s standard higher still|author= Sid Smith |publisher= ''[[BBC Music]]'', BBC website |date= 2 October 2009 |accessdate= 28 April 2011}}</ref> For ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[Colin Irwin (journalist)|Colin Irwin]] said: "This album may not be quite as bleak as The Bairns, and the sound is more sophisticated, but they still sound like nobody else... Tracks build slowly and mysteriously, but all are in service of the song. Their arrangement of the title track − a traditional song about the emotional devastation wrought by press gangs − brilliantly encapsulates the story's fraught desperation. Their version of Nobody Knew She Was There, one of Ewan MacColl's lesser-known songs about his mother, painstakingly paints a similarly dramatic backdrop with more atmospheric brass, and they put their own stamp on the Nic Jones classic, Annachie Gordon."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/06/unthanks-here-s-the-tender-coming |
Sid Smith, of [[BBC Music]], described it as an "astonishing record", "beautiful”, “haunting”, and “beguiling".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fb9p|title= Here’s the Tender Coming raises the group’s standard higher still|author= Sid Smith |publisher= ''[[BBC Music]]'', BBC website |date= 2 October 2009 |accessdate= 28 April 2011}}</ref> For ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[Colin Irwin (journalist)|Colin Irwin]] said: "This album may not be quite as bleak as The Bairns, and the sound is more sophisticated, but they still sound like nobody else... Tracks build slowly and mysteriously, but all are in service of the song. Their arrangement of the title track − a traditional song about the emotional devastation wrought by press gangs − brilliantly encapsulates the story's fraught desperation. Their version of Nobody Knew She Was There, one of Ewan MacColl's lesser-known songs about his mother, painstakingly paints a similarly dramatic backdrop with more atmospheric brass, and they put their own stamp on the Nic Jones classic, Annachie Gordon."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/06/unthanks-here-s-the-tender-coming |
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|title= The Unthanks: Here’s the Tender Coming|author= Colin Irwin |publisher= ''[[BBC Music]]'', BBC website |date= 6 September 2009 |accessdate= 28 April 2011|authorlink= Colin Irwin (journalist)}}</ref> Neil Spencer, for ''Uncut Magazine'', said: "It’s an often exquisite mixture of light and dark, instinct and artistry, that honours both the power of old songs and the stoicism of the lives that shaped them. Rarely has the deep past sounded so stirring, or so modern."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/the_unthanks/reviews/13596 |
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Here's the Tender Coming, the third album by English folk group The Unthanks, and the first under The Unthanks moniker, was released on 14 September 2009.[1] It was Folk Album of the Year for The Guardian and also for MOJO magazine.[2]
Reception
Sid Smith, of BBC Music, described it as an "astonishing record", "beautiful”, “haunting”, and “beguiling".[3] For The Guardian, Colin Irwin said: "This album may not be quite as bleak as The Bairns, and the sound is more sophisticated, but they still sound like nobody else... Tracks build slowly and mysteriously, but all are in service of the song. Their arrangement of the title track − a traditional song about the emotional devastation wrought by press gangs − brilliantly encapsulates the story's fraught desperation. Their version of Nobody Knew She Was There, one of Ewan MacColl's lesser-known songs about his mother, painstakingly paints a similarly dramatic backdrop with more atmospheric brass, and they put their own stamp on the Nic Jones classic, Annachie Gordon."[4] Neil Spencer, for Uncut Magazine, said: "It’s an often exquisite mixture of light and dark, instinct and artistry, that honours both the power of old songs and the stoicism of the lives that shaped them. Rarely has the deep past sounded so stirring, or so modern."[5]
Track listing
- "Because He Was a Bonny Lad" (Traditional)
- "Sad February" (Graeme Miles)
- "Annachie Gordon" (Traditional)
- "Luck Gilchrist" (Adrian McNally)
- "The Testimony of Patience Kershaw" (Frank Higgins/The Unthanks)
- "Living by the Water" (Anne Briggs)
- "Where've Yer Bin Dick?" (Traditional)
- "Nobody Knew Shew Was There" (Ewan MacColl)
- "Flowers of the Town" (Anonymous)
- "Not Much Luck in Our House" (Traditional)
- "At First She Starts" (Lal Waterson/Oliver Knight)
- "Here's the Tender Coming" (Traditional)
Personnel
- The Unthanks
- Rachel Unthank – voice, cello, ukelele, clogs
- Becky Unthank – voice, feet, autoharp
- Niopha Keegan – violin, voice, accordion, mandolin
- Adrian McNally – piano, dampened piano, plucked piano, drums, marimba, chime bars, autoharp, Wu-Han tam tam, Chinese temple gongs, Tubular bells, backing voice
- Chris Price – guitar, bass, ukulele, dulcitone, marimba, backing voice
- Additional musicians
- Jo Silverston – solo cello
- Rosie Biss – quartet cello
- Mike Gerrard – viola
- Andre Swanepoel – violin
- Iona Brown – violin
- Jenny Chang – violin
- Dan Rogers – bowed double bass
- Graham Hardy – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Simon Tarrant – trumpet
- Chris Hibberd – trombone
- Adam Sinclair – drums, cymbals, shaky egg
- Julian Sutton – melodeon
- Neil Harland – double bass
- Shelley Thomson – backing voice
- Jane Pollinger – backing voice
References
- ^ Steve Drayton (4 September 2011). "BBC Introducing: New name and sound for The Unthanks". BBC Local/Tyne, BBC website. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ^ "The Unthanks: Biography". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Sid Smith (2 October 2009). "Here's the Tender Coming raises the group's standard higher still". BBC Music, BBC website. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Colin Irwin (6 September 2009). "The Unthanks: Here's the Tender Coming". BBC Music, BBC website. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Neil Spencer. "Uncut Album Review: The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming". Retrieved 15 October 2011.
External links
- Official website – http://www.the-unthanks.com