The darlings of folk return with their first album in four years, Mount The Air.  The fact that it is independently released, and is something of a serious, one-paced record, suggests that The Unthanks don’t want to play by anyone’s rules but their own.  Their popularity means that they are still courted by major labels but nonetheless they are choosing this time to go it alone.  So, they are making this music on their own terms and thus are fully able to indulge themselves with sprawling, slow-building epics; long passages of jazzy meandering and neat instrumental vignettes.  It’s at this point I should also warn off anyone with an allergy to trumpets.  There is a whole flood of trumpetry happening here, courtesy of the great Tom Arthurs.