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Ashore

June Tabor

Ashore

Latest album from the veteran English folk singer is a concept album about the sea

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7.4

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UK Release date
21/02/2011
US Release date
15/02/2011
  1. 9.0 |   BBC

    It’s not an album for those with short attention spans but, in a world of lightweights, Tabor’s a colossus and this is one of her finest hours
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The exquisite treatment of Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding matches even the classic recording by Robert Wyatt
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  3. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    All in all, another real treat from the 63-year-old queen of English folk
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A voice that conveys unusually evocative depths of character on some testing material. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Her version of Elvis Costello’s Shipbuilding is a gem
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Rugged and beautiful, like a perfect cross-breeding of Nico and PJ Harvey, she sings timeless songs with a timeless voice
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  8. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    There is in these performances a slightly mannered theatricalism
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  9. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only


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June Tabor: Ashore

  • Download full album for just £8.49
  • 1. Finisterre £0.99
  • 2. The Bleacher Lassie of Kelvinhaugh £0.99
  • 3. The Grey Funnel Line £0.99
  • 4. Le Vingt-Cinquième du Mois D'Octobre £0.99
  • 5. Shipbuilding £0.99
  • 6. Jamaica £0.99
  • 7. The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry £0.99
  • 8. Winter Comes In / Vidlin Voe £0.99
  • 9. The Oggie Man £0.99
  • 10. I'll Go and Enlist for a Sailor £0.99
  • 11. The Brean Lament £0.99
  • 12. Le Petit Navire £0.99
  • 13. Across the Wide Ocean £0.99
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