They sing well / sound good, and they are likable lads to boot. Please let them shine on their own well-earned merits, and leave off the promotional nonsense about who is authentic and how traditional or how old this or that is. We are music people here, not schmucks that need to be lured in by marketing talk ("This washing powder gets your whites whiter than white"). We tend to know what shanties are, for example -- or when the shanty being sung is something based in stock revival interpretations of Group X and which has absolutely nothing to with how many fish they've pulled from the sea. We are familiar with issues of "authenticity," and how to separate those notions from the issue of interesting/uninteresting music. So let's leave those shenanigans (including the awkward concept, "Cornish sea shanties") to whatever "mainstream" audience Universal hopes to attract. Another case in point: Universal is the biggest record label in the world (surely most people are familiar with it), but instead of just saying the are on Universal, the articles say "They are on the same label with Lady Gaga" -- quite meaningless (might as well say they are on the same planet as Lady Gaga). Needless to say, I am irked that this fine group of singers is being dished up in such silly terms. It seems disrespectful even, to involve them in spreading more mis-info about this genre of music.