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Here's the Tender Coming

The Unthanks

Here's the Tender Coming

Mercury-nominated Northern English folk quartet led by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank with their first album in their new format

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7.3

Label
EMI
UK Release date
22/09/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Amid a blossoming British folk scene, the group remain a distinctive presence
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    …it's the gentle but unsettling vocals and harmonies of the two sisters that dominate the set, but the arrangements are even braver and more confident than before
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  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    An often exquisite mixture of light and dark, instinct and artistry, that honours both the power of old songs and the stoicism of the lives that shaped them. Rarely has the deep past sounded so stirring, or so modern
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  4. 8.0 |   State

    The stories are local and the sound is warm and it asks you to abandon the world outside when listening and if the mood takes you (and it will) have a good whisky to hand
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  5. 8.0 |   Spin

    Its doomed subjects are well served by the band's dark, gentle strums and ghostly piano lines
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  6. 7.0 |   FasterLouder

    Essentially a traditional folk record re-contextualised in the modern world. The magic comes from the sister’s voices that can blend seamlessly or wander off in different tonal directions
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  7. 7.0 |   Sydney Morning Herald

    Neither has a regulation voice but they do have tenderness and spirit
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  8. 6.0 |   Rave Magazine

    When the group transcend their instrumentation and lock into more radical textures and sounds, the album soars. They just need to let go more
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