This Is Tunng: Mothers Daughter & Other Songs

Tunng | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ace Fu Records
• ASIN: B000CSULOA
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,385 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Originally released in January 2005 now available again mid price. Tunng (you read that right first time) are comprised of producer / guitarist Mike Lindsay and singer / guitarist Sam Genders, and you have in your possession their very special debut release. So, This Is.Tunng. What then can you expect? 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 and Out The Window With The Window is a spooky semi-instrumental, perfect spot music for The Wicker man itself. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "glitch" folk!, March 24, 2006

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Sound Chaser (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Tunng: Mothers Daughter & Other Songs (Audio CD)

This lovely hybrid of "glitch" electronica and "old school" british isles folk is one of the best overlooked releases of the year. While the combo of these two styles soulds like a recipe for sonic disaster, it actualy works amazingly well. Think Fairport Convention produced by Boards of Canada and you start to get the idea.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my absolute favourite discoveries of the last few years, July 11, 2008

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Piers Moktan "Piers Moktan" (Khorsor Elephant Stable, Nepal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is (Mother's Daughter) (Audio CD)

Emerging from the British Nu-Folk scene, Tunng revitalise a musical genre many either dismiss as outmoded and twee, or claim cannot be bettered since its 70s heyday of fragile, acoustic angst a la Nick Drake. And whilst Pause era Four-Tet may serve as a useful reference point, this isn't so much Folktronica as it is Laptop Folk. The songs and the acoustic instrumentation come first, underpinned by subtle electronic treatments. And the tunes are truly infectious- I just can't keep myself from playing them again and again. This music satisfies in me both the afficionado of contemporary electronica as well as the lover of good old-fashioned folk rock (like John Martyn's 1973 classic 'Solid Air'). This album is basically a collection of previously released 12" singles and has just received a US release. Meanwhile, back in the UK, now signed to Full Time Hobby, Tunng have released their equally awesome new album `Comments of The Inner Chorus', and then in 2007 `Good Arrows'. A favourite for several years now, I'm eager for anything else Sam Genders or Mike Lindsay might be involved with, so am eagerly anticipating release of the album by `The Accidental' (featuring Tunng man Sam).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tunng are brilliant, October 14, 2006

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J. L. marchant - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is (Mother's Daughter) (Audio CD)

this is really warm sounding album even though the songs are about things like, for example, a girl having a breakdown and robbing a bank. played with some lovely sounding acoustic guitars alongside some clever bleeps and samples, these songs are really imaginative stories instead of cliched ballads or angry political inaffectual nonsense.