The Unthanks – Sorrows Away (2022) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Perhaps you heard. The most important and best loved British folk group in the last 20 years have been on the road since April 2022 showcasing Sorrows Away. The anticipation for the delayed record release is all the greater, after nights like the London Palladium show, which climaxed with a mass sing. On many other nights too, in Edinburgh and Dublin, Newcastle and Nottingham, sold out audiences already on their feet for a standing ovation, would sing the album title, sonorously, defiantly, again and again, while the band presided silently, with wide smiles and the odd tear, before rejoining in chorus for one last time. On the one hand, it shows that a band who have been making us cry for nearly 20 years, have done the unthinkable and made some music of joy and light! Inviting us after two years of Brexit, Covid and no live music to banish our ‘sorrows away’, The Unthanks have turned two simple words into a prayer – a cathartic incantation to sing at the top of our voices, from the depths of our souls – SORROWS AWAY! – sending us home feeling like we have seen off the past, welcomed in the new and reconnected with one another. Sorrows Away is perhaps the most complete Unthanks album to date, showing greater contrasts between light and dark, joy and sorrow, intimate and epic, bitter and sweet. There is also archetypal Unthanks territory – rich, tender, exploratory and long-form. 180g Gatefold Vinyl LP.This collection represents a proper follow-up to the Unthanks sisters’ 2017 album Mount the Air. The Tyne & Wear folk act’s intervening years have featured projects interpreting the work of Molly Drake, Emily Bronte, and Lillian Bilocca, as well as a soundtrack to the 2019 TV reboot of Worzel Gummidge. Here, longtime collaborator Adrian McNally provides lavish production on tastefully arranged ensemble recordings of a set largely comprising traditional music from the British Isles, alongside a handful of original compositions. – James Wilkinson

Tracklist:

1-1. The Unthanks – The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (07:45)
1-2. The Unthanks – The Sandgate Dandling Song (08:49)
1-3. The Unthanks – The Old News (03:56)
1-4. The Unthanks – The Royal Blackbird (04:02)
1-5. The Unthanks – The Isabella Colliery Coke Ovens (04:05)
1-6. The Unthanks – The Bay of Fundy (04:29)
1-7. The Unthanks – The Month of January (Uncle Rat) (04:38)
1-8. The Unthanks – My Singing Bird (07:05)
1-9. The Unthanks – Waters of Tyne (02:58)
1-10. The Unthanks – Sorrows Away (Love Is Kind) (09:11)

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