In quiet, understated celebration of their 10th anniversary, The Unthanks release an album of rarities, exclusive live tracks, demos and outtakes. It is the only item available for individual purchase from The Unthanks Memory Box - a limited edition 10th anniversary box of Unthanks treasure, including this CD, a live DVD, 3 books, a 7” single, prints, postcard and photos, all hand-finished and signed by the band...

Archive Treasures (2005-2015) is, at heart, a fan album. Organised on the record in sections, the album features never-before-heard Winterset recordings, live recordings of the 10 piece Unthanks from Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre, radio session tracks, childhood folk-club snapshots, a new Christmas single, a very different work-in-progress version of 'Queen of Hearts', three years before it appeared as a single on Last, plus tracks which have previously only been available on compilation albums featuring other acts, such as crowd favourite 'Tar Barrel in Dale', The Beatles’s 'Sexy Sadie', Peter Bellamy’s 'Oak, Ash and Thorn' and from Adrian McNally’s Harbour of Songs album, a collaboration with fellow Barnsleyite, poet Ian McMillan.

It probably goes without saying that if you're not a fan of folk, then you'll find nothing here to change your musical tastes. And, if you're a fan of The Unthanks, this album is a great chance to hear some rare material.

01 - '2000 Miles' (Christmas Single 2015)
02 - 'On a Monday Morning' (Live from TFF Rudolstadt, Germany 2009)
03 - 'I Wish, I Wish' (Live from Melbourne, Australia 2008)
04 - 'Blue Bleezin Blind Drunk' (Live from Holywell Music Room 2008)
05 - 'Close the Coalhouse Door' (Live from The Tyne Theatre, Newcastle 2011)
06 - 'Alifib/Alifie' (Live from Brighton Dome 2012)
07 - 'The Gallowgate Lad' (Live from The Tyne Theatre, Newcastle 2011)
08 - 'Felton Lonnin' (BBC Radio 1 Rob Da Bank Session)
09 - 'Tar Barrel in Dale' (BBC Radio 2 Radcliffe and Maconie Session)
10 - 'Queen of Hearts' (Alt Demo 2009)
11 - 'Sexy Sadie' (Recording for Mojo Magazine's White Album)
12 - 'A Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard' (From Harbour of Songs 2012)
13 - 'Oak, Ash and Thorn' (Recorded for the Peter Bellamy Oak, Ash Thorn Project)
14 - 'The Unthank Family Band' (Recorded at Hartlepool Folk Club 2000)

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Nick Smithson