I'm posting about experimental folk. Tunng from the UK, in particular.Though I have little to nothing to do with this genre, I can't help it, I like their song Bullets so much and it has a beautiful new video!(maybe I like Bullets 'cause it's not _that_ folky? I wonder)Speaking of Tunng beautiful videos, It's Because...We've Got Hair:Check out the Tunng MOG love by Jenny, Puffy, Kate and Michae...
You've probably heard that Harp is kaput, which is a drag from any number of perspectives, but one of them is that the stuff that they haven't published will never be published. I'm going to put it here. You'll have to squint a little to imagine the photos and glossy paper and neat typefaces, but you're all imaginative, creative people. I'm sure you can do it.RIP Harp. It was fun.The tip of...
Tunng, Geoff Farina and Brown Bird Live in CambridgeMiddle EastCambridge, MA USAOctober 25, 2007by Jennifer Kelly Who ever thought that Tunng would be such a party?The British band Tunng has been steadily moving away from it origins in delicate electronic folk towards a poppier, more exuberant sound. The newest album Good Arrows bobs and weaves giddily, its hooky melodies couched in three- and ...
Tunng, the British electronic/folk/pop duo that has recently grown into a band, has a new album out, called Good Arrows. It’s very fine, as you’d expect if you’ve heard either of their previous albums, but maybe a bit more conventionally pop…anyway, my Dusted review went up today, and here’s the beginning:In the past several years, Tunng has evolved from a studio-only, sound-pasting, me
Just got this album, this song is a HIT if it ever gets played once, just a great bizarre pop song and it reminds me of very early Pink Floyd. Anyone who can write tunes as catchy as this and Bricks - and check out the first verse to the latter - The bicycles inside your skullSend you away and off you goInto the streets where all the pretty girls collect their thoughts for youand pin them up to...