TLike The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Tunng”s fifth album is set in a fictional village – but where Ray Davies luxuriated in bucolic nostalgia, Tunng convey a landscape of vague disquiet and a cast of misfits. There”s the girl unravelled by a kiss in Bloodlines; the sweet-sour woman in Trip Trap, described in such fairytale language you wonder if she”s a witch; the truculent gang at the heart of The Village, who ”don”t believe what they have sold us”. The music is shaped by the characters, with rhythm particularly affected: in The Village, percussive clicks and snapping chords power across electronic samples until the rhythm gets trapped in a loop; in Follow Follow and So Far From Here, both depicting village outsiders, guitars, keyboards and vocals are syncopated, creating an atmosphere of slipperiness and shift. It”s such a nuanced album that it can feel undemonstrative, with even the choruses lacking impact – but that, too, typifies a place where nothing is what it first seems.

Additional Details

Label: Full Time Hobby

Genre: Folk

Run Time: 39:05 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 06/18/13

UPC: 5060246124316