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  • Audio CD (30 Jun 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Static Caravan
  • ASIN: B0006TL9RI
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,148 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Mother's Daughter
2. People Folk
3. Out The Window With The Window
4. Beautiful And Light
5. Tale From Black
6. Song Of The Sea
7. Kinky Vans
8. Fair Doreen
9. Code Breaker
10. Surprise Me 44

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Tunng; Edgy yet irresistible, songs that slide under your skin or clamber softly into your ear whilst you sleep. Even the very name is designed to confound. "it must go into peoples heads, scramble and come out wrong... it brings out the dyslexic in all of us."

"People Folk" lounges gently over a pagan beat, like the Beta band lost in the Congo; "Fair Doreen" melds scratchy electronica with a pastoral, quintessentially English dynamic.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars There's no Excuse for not buying this!, 5 Jul 2005
By Ms. F. Ford "Knit Cook Read" (Reading, Berkshire) - See all my reviews
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I got this album because it kept appearing on my reccomendations page, and frankly, it's the best thing Amazon ever let me know about.

The blend of English folk and gentle electronica could become a disastrously psychadelic noise-cocktail in some hands, but Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay have managed their material so skillfully that labels like "folkatronica" or "indie-electronica" just don't encapsulate what you're listening to. The solid, dark mood of the whole album is Earthy and tightly-arranged and the word "psychadelic" just doesn't apply.

Samples are handled with real sensitivity and intelligence, as in the female vocal with piano that drifts over the guitar chords in "Tale from Black;" or even the sample used in the opening track. Other, more traditional arrangements, such as "Fair Doreen" find the pair singing in luscious harmonies.

This album feels like it builds more on the country-based, Wicker-man, pagan aspect of folk, and not on the loosely arranged, joyful ambience of folk music of the Incredible-String-Band variety. The arrangements are well organised, rhythmically, and the electronic music/acoustic folk blending is seamless. Electronic sounds become another interesting musical texture in what are very original, and interesting folk-inspired arrangements.

Comparisons to four tet are inevitable for tracks like "out the window with the window," which has quite a lot of chiming, glitchy, delicate four-tet-esque qualities; but the similarities end there. Lyrical compositions and acoustic instruments prevail with Tunng, whereas four tet tends to go more in for pure acousto-electric ambience.

If you like efterklang, four tet, Colleen, or even Bjork'e Vespertine, you will enjoy this well-crafted acoustoelectric gem. Enjoy! I really can't reccommend this to you highly enough.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Almost There, 10 Mar 2006
A friend bought this album for me. On first listen, I wasn't that impressed; but as time went on, I became more and more seduced by the interesting sonorities expressed through the ethereal electronica present on the album. This album certainly has its high points, and you get the impression that the pair behind it know this. Their blend of warm acoustic folk music with cold, desolate blips and beeps is incredibly well-realised; unfortunately, it's not without its downfalls.

The main thing that lets this album down, is the fact that there aren't enough ideas within tracks. 'Suprise Me 44' has a brilliantly addictive guitar riff that really draws you in for the first few listens... however, after that, there really isn't much to listen out for. Nearly all of the songs fail because of this pattern - there will be some exquisite ideas there, but there simply won't be enough of them. And with this lack of ideas stretched over only 10 tracks, the album doesn't sustain too many listens.

That said, what Tunng do, they do well. The haunting guitar riffs in 'Out The Window...', and 'Beautiful and Light', the sound manipulation in 'Kinky Vans', and the great use of sampling in 'Tales From The Black', all make for beautiful pieces of music. This is a fabulous, original introductory album, and I really cannot wait to hear what else this band do in the future. I strongly recommend it.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Can I forgive myself for not hearing this when it came out?!, 3 Aug 2006
By Jonny (WAKEFIELD) - See all my reviews
Can I forgive myself for not hearing this when it came out?! The usual answer is "yes" because it was probably too cool then or everyone was into it and for some stupid unjustified reason I would usually distance myself on the principal that everyone has sold out except me! BUt oh no stupid me, this is Br**iant homegrown talent clicks and bleeps and all!

Please for your own sake listen to track four - "beautifull and light" it will be your new favourite song and will make some part of your life hopefull, ambitious and brave.
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Although the term 'Folktronica' seems to be used entirely as a derogatory term now, it is a useful word to help describe this album, which is a fairly literal fusion of... Read more
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