Tunng

In the organizer's words:

Time flies when you're Tunng. Can it really be over two decades since the band first released their genre-bending, self-proclaimed "pagan folktronica" in an east London studio with a series of Gilles Peterson-assisted singles on the small but perfectly formed Static Caravan imprint? Surely, and what's more, January 2025 will mark the twentieth anniversary of This is Tunng... Mother's Daughter and Other Songs, a debut long-player whose acoustic guitars and poetic treatises on nature, mythology and the human condition, courtesy of Sam Genders, are sifted through band founder Mike Lindsay's grid of fractured beats and crackling electronics, still sounds like an irreverently postmodern marriage of the rustic and the synthetic, the arcane and the futuristic - one for which the label "pagan folktronica" is as good a shorthand as any.

However we want to describe it, the 20-year-old, unmistakable sound returns on Tunng's eighth studio album Love You All Over Again. It's a successful blend of texture and melody, unsettling imagery and a shifting production that Lindsay reveals is based on a conscious return to the band's first principles. I looked at the first two albums to hear how we fused genres - things like Davy Graham, Pentangle and the Wicker Man soundtrack, which I discovered at the time, along with Expanding Records [the Shoreditch-based "beautiful electronic music" label] whose studio we shared. It all fed into the early records. Over the years Tunng's sound has changed and morphed, but at its core there's still a hint of what Sam and I did on the first album. Instead of looking for a new path, we went back to what we've always done, and that felt like a new path after all this time... Love You All Over Again is our way of coming full circle.

"For Tunng to work, it has to feel surprising, strange and unpredictable, and the new album delivers all of that. It's about Tunng being back as a family, within our original boundaries, and bringing our love to everyone who has been part of our journey over the last 20 years."

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