It's a curious thing, this strangely eccentric music of U.K. neo-folk outfit The Unthanks . Led by Mercury Prize nominee Rachel Unthank and her sister Becky, this provocative quintet take the bleakest, most despairing traditional British folk laments and then dresses them up with modern, minimalist neo-classical embellishments. Telling tales of a lost lover's suicide, harrowing coal mine child labor, drunken wives and other equally morbid topics, the recently released Here's The Tender Coming (EMI, U.K. only) could be an unrelenting downer. But thanks to the spare but richly tailored production and imaginative arrangements - think Erik [...]
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