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Songs from the Shipyards

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Songs from the Shipyards

Album number seven from the Northumberland folk group, which is also volume three of their "Diversions" series

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Universal
UK Release date
05/11/2012
US Release date
05/11/2012
  1. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Instead of folk songs about damsels and knights on moors, the songs featured jetties, bollards, tankers and warships
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    They've assembled poignant soundscape that lends assorted songs their offkey harmonies and eerie chamber folk. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Wistful blend of piano and ambient sounds
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

    There really is no better folk band in the land. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Tts minimalism lends poignancy to songs and poetry narrating the glory and grime of a vanished era
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  6. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    As a film soundtrack it is an emotive, image-ridden heart-breaker, but as an stand-alone listen it too easily fades
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