2013-10-11
Six people, multiple instruments and multiple voices. That's what you get on Turbines, the fifth release from British band Tunng. This folk band offers boy/girl multi-tracked vocals, guitar, keys, and beat programming, so one can't really call it straight-up folk. Let's call it experimental electro-folk (folktronica?). Turbines is somewhat quiet, yet it's rich and full of substance. Tunng reminds me a bit of Grand Rapids band, The Soil and The Sun, a band that I thought was like no other....until now.
Rebecca Ruth
JOHN McCUTCHEON
Passage
TV MIKE AND THE SCARECROWS
Out at Sea
TOM MORELLO, THE NIGHTWATCHMAN
The Fabled City
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS
Genuine Negro Jig
Lucinda Williams
World Without Tears
Black Jake and the Carnies
Sundry Mayhems
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