The Unthanks - Diversions Vol 4: Songs and Poems of Molly Drake

The Guardian 60

(RabbleRouser)

Cover versions of Robert Wyatt and Anohni songs, hook-ups full of thunder and chug with a Yorkshire brass band, a stark soundtrack about shipbuilding, and now this: the fourth side-project in the Unthanks’ intriguing parallel career. This album features settings of poems and songs by Nick Drake’s mother, Molly, first revealed to the world on a 2007 compilation of her son’s music, Family Tree.

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