Neil Spencer 

Never Forget review – folk trio the Young’uns prove adept historians

The Young'uns bridge the gap between Teesside's past and present on this singularly British set, writes Neil Spencer
  
  


One part of folk's remit is to honour the past and keep old songs alive; another to maintain the tradition of social commentary. This Hartlepool trio document Teesside history with gusto; this latest album has songs about the peasants' revolt of 1381, fallen second world war sailors and a potted history of the Middlesbrough iron industry. All are delivered in robust but precise three-part vocal harmony, often a cappella, with some accompaniment from guitar and squeeze-box. As bookends come pieces about a 2013 English Defence League "protest" at a York mosque being defused by tea and biscuits; like the album, a touching, singularly British affair.

 

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