Lullaby and - the ceaseless roar
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The guardian
d. 25. May 2017
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Jude Rogers
d. 25. May 2017
"Molly's original songs are cut-glass and polite, with a harder, darker melancholy bubbling underneath, and it's this tough, tender soul that this album aspires to reveal. Fans of the girlish northern voices of sisters Becky and Rachel Unthank, and the soft, shining piano of Adrian McNally, will adore it; others might get lost in the whispery sweetness of Dream Your Dreams and Never Pine for the Old Love, longing for more gravel and grit. When it comes, at the end of the subtly heartbreaking, I Remember, and the sombre Set Me Free, it hits".
fRoots
2017 June
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Colin Irwin
2017 June
"One of the most impressive factors in The Unthanks' resourceful crossover success has been their absolute refusal to conform to accepted stereotypes of widespread appeal ... Continuing to stick to their defiantly independent guns, they go aff at another tangent here, devoting an entire album to the work of Molly Drake, who may yet become the subject of a retrospective cause cèlebre even more unlikely than that of her tragic, celebrated son Nick ... In her own rarefied voice, Drake's songs belong to a distant, antiquated era, but in Becky Unthank particularly, they find an ideal champion, shaping them for the modern world with her creamy, affecting voice. It's an oddly sensual, even at times unnerving collection, built around Adrian McNally's piano arrangements, with the added dimension of Molly's daughter, actress Gabrielle Drake, interspersing the music with poems providing further gravitas and subtle drama ... They are not, they insist, on a crusade for Molly Drake - theyaremerely pursuing a long-held desire to share great songs and music they love. Safe to say on that basis they succeed gloriously".