This Is Tunng: Mothers Daughter & Other Songs

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This lovely hybrid of "glitch" electronica and "old school" british isles folk is one of the best overlooked releases of the year. While the combo of these two styles soulds like a recipe for sonic disaster, it actualy works amazingly well. Think Fairport Convention produced by Boards of Canada and you start to get the idea.

Emerging from the British Nu-Folk scene, Tunng revitalise a musical genre many either dismiss as outmoded and twee, or claim cannot be bettered since its 70s heyday of fragile, acoustic angst a la Nick Drake. And whilst Pause era Four-Tet may serve as a useful reference point, this isn't so much Folktronica as it is Laptop Folk. The songs and the acoustic instrumentation come first, underpinned by subtle electronic treatments. And the tunes are truly infectious- I just can't keep myself from playing them again and again. This music satisfies in me both the afficionado of contemporary electronica as well as the lover of good old-fashioned folk rock (like John Martyn's 1973 classic 'Solid Air'). This album is basically a collection of previously released 12" singles and has just received a US release. Meanwhile, back in the UK, now signed to Full Time Hobby, Tunng have released their equally awesome new album `Comments of The Inner Chorus', and then in 2007 `Good Arrows'. A favourite...Read more

this is really warm sounding album even though the songs are about things like, for example, a girl having a breakdown and robbing a bank. played with some lovely sounding acoustic guitars alongside some clever bleeps and samples, these songs are really imaginative stories instead of cliched ballads or angry political inaffectual nonsense.