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No one else really sounds like this band. Which is pretty rare. The title track of Last by McNally, is a wonderful example of something that sounds like it wasnt written but just appeared. On first hearing you think you must have heard it before, that it always existed, but you cant put your finger on it. Its playful and profound, a hymn to us all getting our mess together and getting on with the business of being alive. A beautiful, unsettling, wildly romantic record. Martin Freeman Originally released and licensed to EMI in 2011, Last is now reissued on RabbleRouser Music, and on vinyl for the first time. Includes Gan To The Kye ndash Queen of Hearts ndash Last ndash Starless The Unthanks seem to regard folk music the same way Miles Davis regarded jazz as a launchpad for exploring the wider possibilities.. a bleakly beautiful record ndash Uncut … mystifying and devastating ndash Pitchfork … When the latest pop fad fades from view, The Unthanks music will continue to resonate down through the generations… This is music that will last. And that perhaps is precisely the point that the ambiguous album title is getting at. Ben Myers, The Quietus … This is a big album in every way ndash Mojo … sparse, intensely focussed production and some stunningly imaginative, minimaliststyle arrangements..the strings have an icy, autumnal countenance about them, and itrsquos against their chilled and often foreboding presence that the voices of Rachel and Becky radiate warmth and compassion… their ability to pare back extraneous matter and to stare unflinchingly into the very soul of a song makes Last such a spellbinding experience BBC Music … their fourth and best album.. bewitching and hugely ambitious Q Magazine … gorgeously unhurried, utterly mesmerising masterpiece. Sunday Express … quietly subverting English folk music.. proves the mix of Rachel and Beckyrsquos voices to be one of the true wonders of 21stcentury music 810 NME … Just beautiful Lauren Laverne … stringladen and luscious but also delicate, wistful and melancholy The Telegraph In 2010, The Unthanks seemed to be diversifying ndash a visit to Africa with Damon Albarn, Flea and Joan Wasser, exploratory concerts of music by Robert Wyatt and Antony amp The Johnsons, collaborations with conductor Charles Hazelwood, Adrian Utley Portishead, presenting TV programmes for BBC4, theatre shows with Colin Firth and Keira Knightley, long European and American tours, and Rachel Unthank expecting a first child with husband and band mate Adrian McNally… yet all along they were plotting and making their most ambitious music to date. Last was their most expansive and expensive sounding record to date, yet it was made for next to nothing, using a combination of a Northumberland village hall, the snow covered farmhouse home of Rachel and Adrian, and a Victorian concert hall in Suffolk, where McNally wrote the title track. The Unthanks continued their predilection for unlikely covers, with interpretations of King Crimsons Starless, a Tom Waits song, and a song covered to champion the unheralded British songwriter Jon Redfern. 180g double vinyl with 12 page booklet including lyrics, a new foreword from Martin Freeman, original sleeve notes and extra images.