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
BRADFORD LEE FOLK & THE BLUEGRASS PLAYBOYS
Somewhere Far Away
ANNE McCUE
East of Electric
Merlin Snider
One Light Many Windows
LERA LYNN
Have You Met Lera Lynn
JAY FARRAR/BENJAMIN GIBBARD
One Fast Move or I'm Gone
China Forbes
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