The Bairns

(2007)

Includes: Felton Lonnin –  Fareweel Regality –  I Wish –  Sea Song – Blue Bleezing Bline Drunk

Nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize

“The Bairns is a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece… music as tough as it is gentle, as ancient as it is modern, and as coldly desolate as it is achingly intimate.. a joyous, virtuous and luscious un-folk album – ancient melodies, graphic atmospheres and everyday concerns radically transformed by bloody-minded and discriminating modern sensibilities. If you only buy one folk album this year… Rachel Unthank & The Winterset’s eerie, heart-rending masterpiece The Bairns” Paul Morley, Observer Music Magazine (Top 50 Albums of the Year, Number 17)

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“spine-tingling.. deeply atmospheric.. constantly surprising **** ” Colin Irwin, Mojo Folk Album of the Month

“a magical album…a work of towering quality” The Telegraph

“If Fairport Convention’s recent revival of their classic Liege and Lief album was a reminder of how English traditional music was radically transformed in the 1960s, then Rachel Unthank shows how the process is still continuing. One of the folk records of the year****” Robin Denselow, The Guardian

“Rough edges and shimmering experimental production.. original and moving” Neil Spencer, The Observer

“The Bairns is a hugely ambitious and strikingly original.. a startlingly contemporary atmosphere.. theirs is an expansive and panoramic music vision.. quite possibly the folk album of this generation. *****” Rock’n’Reel (R2)

“Here’s a second album that consolidates, nay, surpasses, an outstanding debut. Breathtaking. *****” Manchester Evening News

“Rachel Unthank & The Winterset deliver magnificently” **** Songlines

“..a landmark release.. a quietly devastating towering achievement in anyone’s book.. an overpoweringly haunted atmosphere.. Yes, this disc is very, very special indeed.” Net Rhythms

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