The Sunday Telegraph London, February 17th, 2008
On their magical, discreetly twisted records, the female north- east avant garde folk group Rachel Unthank and the Winterset create a sensationally graceful sound that can be epic and subdued, dreamy and specific, as well as supernaturally ancient and defiantly modern. Their music is extremely serious, and seriously moving, and is respectful, beautifully played traditional music that will please purists. It is abstractly influenced not only by the now traditional gestures and textures of 1960s folk-rock music (Denny, Drake, Pentangle, the Watersons), but also by more daring experimental music ...
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