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Time flies when you’re being Tunng. Can it really be over two decades since the band’s genre-blurring ‘pagan folktronica’ first emerged from an east London studio courtesy of a clutch of Gilles Peterson-endorsed singles on the small Static Caravan imprint? It surely can.
January 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of This is Tunng... Mother’s Daughter and Other Songs. Sieving acoustic guitars and poetic disquisitions on nature, mythology and the human condition through a lattice of fractured beats and crackling electronics, the album still sounds like an impiously postmodern wedding of the rustic and the synthetic, the arcane and the futurist.
Whichever way we choose to describe it, that 20-year-old signature sound makes a warm return on Tunng’s eighth studio album, Love You All Over Again.
A winning amalgam of texture and melody, disconcerting imagery and shape-shifting production, Mike Lindsay reveals that the record was grounded in a conscious reacquainting with the band’s first principles.
“I went back to the first two albums just to listen to how we fused genres - things like Davy Graham, Pentangle, the Expanding Records catalogue and the Wicker Man soundtrack”, Lindsay says. “Over the years, Tunng’s sound has varied and twisted, but at the root there is always a flavour of what Sam [Genders] and I made on that first album. Rather than searching for a new avenue we went back to what we used to do, which, after all this time, felt like it was a new avenue.”
Love You All Over Again is an album that gets to the very essence of Tunng. “For Tunng to work, it has to feel surprising, odd and unpredictable. This album has all that. It’s all about Tunng being back, as a family, within our original boundaries, bringing the love to all who have been a part of our journey over 20 years”, Lindsay sums up nicely.