Artist : Tunng
Title : Comments Of the Inner Chorus Special Edition
Genre : Folk / Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : Jun-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Full Time Hobby fth019cdx
Source : CDDA
Length : 46:07 min
Size : 72,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.hanged 02:01
02.woodcat 03:52
03.the wind up bird 04:18
04.red and green 02:41
05.stories 02:47
06.jenny again 03:23
07.man in the box 04:56
08.jay down 03:38
09.it's because... we've got hair 03:03
10.sweet william 03:36
11.engine room 04:19
12.band stand 03:04
13.bodies 04:29
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46:07 min
Thx for the advance RNS, here is the special edition
retail with 13 tracks instead of 11 and the pinch
of higher bitrates.
Without wanting to exhaust your tolerance for figurative
comparisons this early on in a review, Tunngs second full
length ('Comments On The Inner Chorus') opens with the kind
of mealy instrumentation and fizzing electronics that
suggest leaden skies and fog-shrouded ramparts - a
situation merely heightened with the distant cry of "break
in the Sun, till the Sun breaks down".
If it wasn't such a hoary clich, this is where we'd pull
out our Wickerman reference... Very much at the crossroads
where the more traditional aspects of British folk and the
new-guard of -tronica suffixed troubadours collide, Tunng
have seen their idiosyncratic breed of honeyed-acoustica
attract attention from the Broadsheet/BBC4 cabal, as well
as appealing to scene fanaticists and those who've stumbled
in via Jose Gonzales and his bouncy-balls.
Now signed to Full Time Hobby, Tunng really do coax the
very best of their well-worn palate - luxuriating in a
sound that references the likes of Nick Drake, Jose
Gonzales, The Notwist, and any number of talented
folk-founded types, yet never descends into the more twee
regions that can often blight this genre. Unreasonably
accessible throughout, 'Comments...' follows on from the
opening electro-folk of 'Hanged' with previous single
'Woodcat'; wherein the Tunng duo of Sam Genders and Mike
Lindsay unreel a fleeing-glimpse of a song that builds
incrementally throughout with heartfelt melodies (which
wouldn't look out of place on a Simon & Garfunkel record)
and a sense of joyful loss ("I miss having coffee watching
TV") that is poignant, rather than mawkish. Closing with a
stuttering patch of silicon-sliced production that keeps it
firmly in the 21st Century, 'Woodcat' acts as a a camera
obscura for the rest of the LP - with 'The Wind Up Bird'
undercoating it's fragile shell with a brace of violins and
mandarins, 'Stories' coming across like 'Pause'-era Four
Tet, whilst 'Jenny Again' (borrowing a melody from The
Sundays) is likely what Elliot Smith would have sounded
like were he from Blighty. Elsewhere, 'Sweet William'
matches waterlogged timber with filigree electronics,'It's
Because We've Got Hair' is a beautiful slice of boy/girl
folk-pop, whilst the throbbing bass, cold-water synths and
chittering beats of album closer 'Engine Room' could
happily grace a Daedelus release.
Beautiful... Go BUY!