I have to admit that I've not, as yet, heard the Unthanks' music. It may be good bad or indifferent, I really don't know. It just irritates me that so many successful folk acts get a slagging. The point I failed to get across to the Philistine and her coruscating chum is that even if we don't enjoy their music, the fact that any sort of folk music is getting covered in the mainstream press is a good thing. There may or may not be acts more deserving of the coverage but at least the world at large is being made aware that folk is worth a listen.