Comments Of The Inner Chorus

Tunng

The second album from Tunng, Comments Of The Inner Chorus is more of band effort than their first album that was mainly the work of Sam Gender and Mike Lindsay. Tunng's unique sound comes from stripped to the wire arrangements that are a mixture of pastoral folk and twisted electronica. The generation weaned on raves and beats have now turned their attention to the mist shrouded world of Englands green and pagan land. They capture the miasma of childhood dreams replete with shapechanging and Little Chefs, then filter it through drowsy perceptions to concoct a soundscape at once comforting and surreal.

It opens a can of mythical worms that thread their way from such bizzare extremes as trumpton and the soundtrack to the Wicker Man. They mix these fears and fascinations in an alchemical welding of acoustic folk, beats and samples, and once more I find myself in the realm of childhood fantasy and fascination.

Tunng are to new folk what the Pixies were to rock - visceral, cerebral and vibrant.

Guitar pared to it's barest essentials, samples at once incongruous yet wholly appropriate, vocals that captivate with barely a murmur in your ear and lo-fi percussion. Comments Of The Inner Chorus is, depending on your perspective, an interesting experiment or a turning point in what can be termed folk music. Where Jim Moray has interpreted, Tunng have evolved and shown us a possible future.

Iain Hazlewood