Mojo Magazine - 'Folk Album of the Month' - August 2007. 'One of the folk records of the year' The Guardian 24th Aug 2007.

'Rough edges and shimmering, experimental production do not make for comfort zone listening, but behind these young voices lie the power fo old songs and stoical lives. Original and moving, the group deserve to prosper.' - The Observer 12th August 2007

Nominated for Best Album in the forthcoming 2008 BBC Folk Awards
HMV Choice Top 30 Albums of the Year (number 18)
fRoots Top Ten Albums of the 2007
Financial Times Top Ten World/Folk Albums of 2007
Mojo Magazine Top 10 Folk Albums of 2007

Nominated for four awards at teh upcoming 2008 BBC Folk Awards

Rachel Unthank voice, cello & feet, Becky Unthank voice and feet, Belinda O’Hooley piano and voice, Niopha Keegan fiddle and voice.

Dancing down the leftfield and singing in their own lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset make friends of staunch tradition and sonic adventure. The all-girl Northumbrian quartet have courted the mainstream without diluting their folk music, luring fans as disparate as Phil Jupitus, Nic Jones, Joan As Policewoman, Kate Rusby, Alasdair Roberts and Stuart Maconie. Fearless, peerless and wholeheartedly brave, they do the North-East proud with the honesty and imagination they bring to its traditions. Also don’t rule out charming interpretations of songs by the likes of Antony & The Johnsons, Robert Wyatt and Bonnie Prince Billy.

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset were born in the summer of 2004. In some ways, it was a odd choice of name, as Becky Unthank continued to take equal lead vocal duties. But with Becky about to go to University and unsure of the path she wanted to pursue in life, the band name was designed to alleviate responsibility from her while she concentrated on studies. If the band and studying became too much for her, or she decided she wanted to take a year out to travel, she could do so without the band having to be renamed and re-branded.

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