Following on from their Mercury Prize nomination, Geordie folk inventors Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are back with a name tweak (The Unthanks), revised line-up and a brand new album, 'Here's The Tender Coming', that rests not one jot on the incomparable sound that has earned them admirers from the ranks of Radiohead and Portishead.Forging links between folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel and her set have blown a bracing north-easterly gale through traditional English song since the release of their debut album 'Cruel Sister', which was nominated MOJO's Folk Album of the Year in 2005. Subverting folk music with love and authority, the Unthanks are perhaps unprecedented in their ability to ability to communicate traditional music to unforgiving mainstream audiences: "a sensationally graceful sound that can be epic and subdued, dreamy and specific, as well as supernaturally ancient and defiantly modern.. easily more contemporary and stylish than boys in skinny trousers holding electric guitars like it's 1969." - Paul MorleyWhile the abbreviated name reflects the long-established reality that the band is co-fronted by Rachel Unthank's sister Becky Unthank, the real development on the new album sees an extended arrangement approach that includes drums and bass, all kinds of tuned percussion, strings and brass and The Unthank's producer Adrian McNally taking on piano responsibilities from Stef Conner who returns to finish the final year of her PHD.