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Rachel Unthank & The Winterset
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket infoRachel Unthank and The Winterset - Biography
"Rachel Unthank and the Winterset's eerie, heart-rending masterpiece The Bairns - the young Unthank sisters plus two, an abstract Victorian north-east gothic girl band influenced by Tom Waits, Steve Reich, Robert Wyatt and the Cocteaus, drifting across oceans of time, taking seriously the importance of songs in transmitting intimate, secret and controversial information from person to person, moment to moment."
Paul Morely
"Just beautiful, beautiful music. One day all music will sound like this"
Phil Jupitus
"I just love it..I simply can't recommend them enough"
Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
"Simply gripping..their ambition knows no bounds"
fRoots
"joyous..refreshingly forthright and in-yer-face"
Mojo Magazine
"austere and glacial.. one of my favourite albums of the year"
Stuart Maconie
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Biography
Dancing down the leftfield and singing in their own lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the "inheritors, purveyors and gleeful distorters" (Ian MacMillan) of Tyneside's traditions. Elements of blues, jazz, burlesque cabaret, classical and leftfield contemporary music make their take on folk music peerless, fearless and wholeheartedly brave, winning fans as disparate as Robert Wyatt, Kate Rusby, Phil Jupitus and Duke Special. Debut album Cruel Sister won Mojo Folk Album of the Year, and new album The Bairns has been described at "utterly gorgeous" by The Guardian and as "a work of towering quality" by The Telegraph. Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are nominated for Best Group, Best Live Act, Best Album and The Horizon Award in the forthcoming 2008 BBC Folk Awards, and The Bairns was number 17 in the Observer Music Magazine’s Top 50 Albums of the 2007 - the only folk album in the 50.
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Links
www.rachelunthank.com/
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset at last.fm
www.myspace.com/rachelunthank
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset at youtube
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End of Year Honours for The Bairns
Observer Music Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2007 (number 17)
"The Bairns is a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece."
Channel 4 Music Top Ten Albums of 2007
"Not just a great record but an important one; a classic in its own lifetime."
Daily Telegraph Top Folk Album of the 2007
"It is by turns passionate, defiant and angry, and the strings of the Northern Sinfonia add to the intense beauty."
"glorious" **** Uncut
"utterly gorgeous" **** The Guardian
"spine-tingling.. deeply atmospheric.. constantly surprising" **** Mojo
"Understated, elegant, plaintive brilliance" The List, Scotland
"a magical album.. a work of towering quality" The Telegraph
"Quite possibly the folk album of this generation" ***** Rock’n’Reel
Nominated for Best Album in the forthcoming 2008 BBC Folk Awards
HMV Choice Top 30 Albums of the Year (number 18)
fRoots Top Ten Albums of the 2007
Financial Times Top Ten World/Folk Albums of 2007
Mojo Magazine Top 10 Folk Albums of 2007
Allaboutjazz.com Best of 2007
Robert Wyatt’s Personal Top Ten Albums of 2007
Tracey Thorn’s Personal Top Ten Albums of 2007
Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk - Top Songs of 2007 in The List
"Seldom can traditional music have sounded quite so bold and unsentimental.. If the effect is austere, it is never bleak. Rather, the starkness is graceful, gripping and utterly thrilling.. It all adds up to one of the most striking and unflinchingly honest records you're likely to hear this year" Number One Recommended Album of the Month in HMV Choice Magazine
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Written: 14th Feb, 70
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