Comments of the Inner Chorus
There’s a definite sense of that community and cohesion which underlines Comments Of The Inner Chorus. It features the kind of interplay you get only from musicians highly attuned to each others radar, picking up subtle threads of ideas, music and song and running with them like streamers. You’ve already heard the deceptively delicate Woodcat – the single based on a Sam story ‘about a guy whose girlfriend does something wrong in the local village and for punishment gets turned into a hare, but he wants to find out what she did so that he can do it and be turned into a hare too....then they can be together’ - but Man In The Box, It’s Because We’ve Got Hair and Red And Green are similarly less songs written, than those whittled right before your ears in concentric patterns of guitar and effect. Tunng’s mastery of the balance between engagement and over-arrangement never falters, making Comments Of The Inner Chorus a very individual, subjective listening experience.
Second album from UK collective is a well-crafted blend of grainy electronics, organic percussion, sampled dialogue, and traditional British folk.
Tunng's sophomore outing finds the folktronic fabulists further exploring and refining the distinctive, gently whimsical blend of pastoral acoustic folk, electronic programming, and musique concrète that they unveiled on earlier releases.
Next week in Newcastle...Continuing where they left off with the release last year of 'This Is Tunng' which featured in many Top Ten Critics lists, the intriguingly named Tunng (phonetically - sounding Norwegian, or could it a tuning fork perhaps? a speech impediment - Tunng-tied) are very much a part of British shores and its folk lineage, yet bridge the acoustic instruments and poetic-sensibility with the found sounds and samples, glitches and minimal-beats that technology brings.
<p>Their sinister, retro-modern folk is <strong>Tom Cox</strong>'s idea of bucolic bliss. Even if it scares the bejesus out of him.</p>
<p>Their sinister, retro-modern folk is <strong>Tom Cox</strong>'s idea of bucolic bliss. Even if it scares the bejesus out of him.</p>