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Here's The Tender Coming (2023 reissue)

180g 2lp in gatefold sleeve w/ booklet including new foreword by Nick Hornby - £26.99 | Buy
Originally released and licensed to EMI in 2009, 'Here’s The Tender Coming' is now reissued on RabbleRouser Music.
the unthanks

Sorrows Away

180g 2LP w/laser-etched 4th side - 1 per customer - £22.99 | Buy
Perhaps you heard? The most important and best loved British folk group in the last 20 years have been on the road since mid-April 2022 showcasing Sorrows Away....
the unthanks

Diversions Vol.5 - Live And Unaccompanied

cd - £10.99 | Buy
lp + dvd - £26.99 | Buy
we’re super grateful for this spellbinding live performance from The Unthanks, as they return to their roots by singing brand new songs in unaccompanied h...
the unthanks

Lines - Part One: LillianBilocca

cd - £7.99 | Buy
Lines is a trilogy of song cycles from the adored duo and friends, with very different subjects but each inspired by poetry and focused on a different female pe...
In Winter
  1. In Freezing Winter Night
  2. O Tannenbaum
  3. Dark December
  4. Gower Wassail
  5. The Holly and the Ivy
  6. O Come All Ye Faithful
  7. Carol of the Birds
  8. Carol of the Beasts
  9. The Cherry Tree Carol
  10. Bleary Winter
  11. In The Bleak Midwinter
  12. The Snow It Melts the Soonest
  13. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  14. Coventry Carol
  15. River, River
  16. Nurse Emmanuelle
  17. Tar Barrel in Dale
  18. Greatham
  19. Dear Companions

the unthanks

In Winter

RabbleRouser Music
  • 2LP in gatefold sleeve with booklet

    Released: 29th Nov 2024

    £32.99
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Sisters, Rachel and Becky Unthank, had been researching and idly harmonising to songs for a winter album that has been on the Unthank to-do list for 15 years.

Recorded in one wintry week on the North York Moors, The Unthanks' 'In Winter' is an extensive, completist time-capsule of the season. Features Christmas tunes known throughout the western world, mixed with the traditional and the newly written, all passed with great care and love through The Unthanks filter. The band’s sixteenth album creates a world in itself, capturing the warmth and nostalgia of the festive season, the chill of the winter months, and the reflective ritualisms of the turn of the year.

In typical magpie style, The Unthanks collect and reimagine. You will hear what a Tyneside band playing a German Christmas song in the style of The Beach Boys sounds like (O Tannenbaum); a Spanish carol performed by English folkies through the filter of Tom Waits (Carol Of The Birds); a French carol given desert blues menace, a newly written tribute to the NHS to the tune of O Holy Night (Nurse Emmanuel); an opening piece inspired by A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten (In Winter’s Night); traditional wassails and old stories coloured with folk noir and traces of Vincent Guaraldi’s Merry Christmas Charlie Brown.