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Mount The Air

The Unthanks

Mount The Air

Album number eight from the Northumberland folk group featuring self-penned songs and arrangements of traditional material

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Cadiz Music
UK Release date
09/02/2015
US Release date
17/02/2015
  1. 10.0 |   State

    This is properly epic stuff. Brass and strings swell the sound, amplifying the emotion already existing in the songs
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  2. 10.0 |   The Irish Times

    Mount The Air is their most ambitious work and places them in the same league as the likes of The Gloaming and the Punch Brothers
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  3. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    The sisters voices are often gossamer-like but combine into a choral anthem as this records swings and sways its way through their whimsical and charming tales
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  4. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    All these tracks have folk deep in their roots, but to label them simply as such would only tell half the story
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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Reinventing the sound of epic, even by their own standards, this is huge. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Q

    More than muddy-hemmed revivalists but rooted in a time long gone. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    The Unthanks are stretching the parameters of their genre with an ambition that’s rarely been heard before
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  8. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    A floating, swirling, blend of folk, indie-rock, and jazz. Subscription required
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  9. 8.0 |   The List

    The sisters voices are often gossamer-like but combine into a choral anthem as this records swings and sways its way through their whimsical and charming tales
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  10. 8.0 |   All Music

    It's the Unthanks' acumen for crafting highly refined overcast ballads that ultimately wins out, and some of us are all the better for it
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  11. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Stylish and extremely skilfull, but a bit too much arr and not enough trad
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  12. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    There are times when Mount The Air does feels like an elaborately illustrated story book (engrossing yet, at times, hard to follow) but this a first class effort and - more often than not - a thing of true beauty
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  13. 6.0 |   The Observer

    The band hit form on the gorgeous, unadorned Magpie, while Hawthorn is an elegant, plaintive treatment of Charles Causley’s poem
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