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Tunng
Mother’s Daughter and Other Songs
Static Caravan
Article
written by Ged M
Mar 13, 2005.
We cover electronica and independent music and here’s where they cross. Taking folk music and grimy electronica, acoustic guitars and scratchy samples, this is a pastoral pop that creates its own space because it ignores the usual boundaries. Other such folkanauts include Four Tet, Gravenhurst and especially the Beta Band, whose dreamy wanderings Tunng bring to mind. If you care for these, Tunng ought to fill your field of vision.
The folkatronica touches are there from the outset with the spooky beginnings of ‘Mother’s Daughter’ and there are much darker folk touches on ‘Tale From Black’ with its dirty and organic sound. It adopts certain old-folky conventions (as on ‘Fair Doreen’) but retains a totally contemporary feel. Individual tracks are, however, far less important than the overall effect that is laidback and calming but every so often it jolts you out of your folky trance, as on the romance-as-hard-scientific-metaphor on ‘Code Breaker’. Ultimately this may not be so substantial as to shift the world from its axis but these folky beeps and wibbles have a place in every serious music fan’s collection.
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