Initially achieving renown as Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, The Unthanks craft an entrancing and deeply personal brand of folk that folds tradition into modernity and heartbreak into beauty. Ensemble cofounders Rachel and Becky Unthank—whose exquisitely melancholic voices feel haunted by ghosts centuries old—wrap enduring ballads of love, loss, family and death in sophisticated arrangements and striking instrumentation. The result is a repertoire that covers a startling amount of sonic terrain, from the ornate and intricately layered to the simple and achingly spare.