Tunng’s original line-up return for an album that builds seamlessly on their strengths; dreamy moods, pastoral scenes, cut with dark currents

Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay became the founding fathers of ‘folktronica’ in the 00s with a slew of innovative albums with Tunng. The pair have travelled separate paths over the past decade: Genders forming the band Diagrams, Lindsay moving to Reykjavik, then on to this year’s collaboration with singer Laura Marling as Lump. Here, they reconvene Tunng’s original line-up for an album that builds seamlessly on its predecessors’ strengths; dreamy moods, pastoral landscapes undercut with dark currents, and conjurations of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. It’s lighter on the sampled clicks, whirrs and speech of their early work, and heavier on the beats; Dark Heart has a Kraftwerk-like coda, and there are burbles of Fender Rhodes piano throughout.

Additional Details

Label:Full Time Hobby

Genre:Folk

Run Time:42:25 mins

Region:0

Release Date:08/24/18

UPC:5060626460065