Now available on vinyl for the first time! Limited to 500 copies. Originally released in 2012, it was one of the Mail On Sunday's albums of the year.
Diversions Vol. 3 contains the music created by The Unthanks for the Tyneside Cinema commissioned film of the same name, Songs from the Shipyards – a beautiful and moving film, tracing the story of shipbuilding and is a studio album that documents a non-sequential 'best of' the live soundtrack. This exquisitely realised record is so heavy with a sense of time and place that one might be on the docks. Sorrowful and magical, a riveting, rigorously unsentimental yet deeply moving experience.
The Unthanks are never better than when singing about dignity in the face of adversity. Every crushed knuckle and slide down a slipway is elegantly evoked. There really is no better folk band in the land.
1. The Romantic Tees (Prelude)
2. A Great Northern River
3. Black Trade
4. Fairfield Crane
5. Big Steamers
6. All in a Day
7. The Romantic Tees
8. Shipbuilding
9. Monkey Dung Man
10. Taking on Men
11. Only Remembered