Tunng
Tunng are a London, England, neo-folk / folktronica band, formed in 2003. … Read Full Bio ↴Tunng are a London, England, neo-folk / folktronica band, formed in 2003. The band consists of Mike Lindsay (vocals, guitar), Becky Jacobs (vocals, percussion, synths), Ashley Bates (banjo, guitar), Phil Winter (electronics, sampling, keyboards), Martin Smith (percussion, keyboards/piano) and Simon Glenister (drums). Their latest album is "Songs You Make at Night" (Aug 2018, Full Time Hobby).
Former members include co-founder Sam Genders (vocals, guitar), who left the band before the release of "...And Then We Saw Land" (Mar 2010, Full Time Hobby).
Tunng started after Genders and Lindsay met, in the latter's Soho basement studio (below a clothes shop). Genders was a singer-songwriter and Lindsay had the studio (making electronica and living through advertising music production). They found that Lindsay's distinctive way with twinkling sounds, and tight production, significantly enhanced the folky songs they were writing - A signature sound developed.
Tunng's first album was "Mother's Daughter And Other Songs" (Jan 2005, Static Caravan) - However, since Genders made at first the choice not to play live, Lindsay found Jacobs and Bates. to help with live shows. Over time, Winter and Smith became part of the band and have all contributed more to recordings, first on "Comments Of The Inner Chorus" (May 2006, Full Time Hobby), then more so on "Good Arrows" (Aug 2007, Full Time Hobby).
The 2010 album, "...And Then We Saw Land", has been the most successful to date and was recorded in the semi-legendary Play Industries Studio, Shoreditch, with access to its vast collection of vintage synthesizers helping develop a more delicate and inter-woven production style. Glenister added live drums to the gigs, from 2009, for a heavier sound, a long way from the seated studio project Tunng once was.
On "Turbines": "...often beloved for its bucolic oddness and modernist gleam, Tunng's polyphonic future folk blossoms with enchanting melodies, simmering grooves, and found sound that has propelled the band into a paradise of exceeded expectations" (Absolute Punk).
Former members include co-founder Sam Genders (vocals, guitar), who left the band before the release of "...And Then We Saw Land" (Mar 2010, Full Time Hobby).
Tunng started after Genders and Lindsay met, in the latter's Soho basement studio (below a clothes shop). Genders was a singer-songwriter and Lindsay had the studio (making electronica and living through advertising music production). They found that Lindsay's distinctive way with twinkling sounds, and tight production, significantly enhanced the folky songs they were writing - A signature sound developed.
Tunng's first album was "Mother's Daughter And Other Songs" (Jan 2005, Static Caravan) - However, since Genders made at first the choice not to play live, Lindsay found Jacobs and Bates. to help with live shows. Over time, Winter and Smith became part of the band and have all contributed more to recordings, first on "Comments Of The Inner Chorus" (May 2006, Full Time Hobby), then more so on "Good Arrows" (Aug 2007, Full Time Hobby).
The 2010 album, "...And Then We Saw Land", has been the most successful to date and was recorded in the semi-legendary Play Industries Studio, Shoreditch, with access to its vast collection of vintage synthesizers helping develop a more delicate and inter-woven production style. Glenister added live drums to the gigs, from 2009, for a heavier sound, a long way from the seated studio project Tunng once was.
On "Turbines": "...often beloved for its bucolic oddness and modernist gleam, Tunng's polyphonic future folk blossoms with enchanting melodies, simmering grooves, and found sound that has propelled the band into a paradise of exceeded expectations" (Absolute Punk).
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Tunng Lyrics
01. Mother's Daughter Young girl stuck to the water Time will tell if you're…
4. Beautiful and Light Katie feels a snap and switches off the tap Walks out…
Arms In your veins the bed slips away brick dissolve and the…
Beautiful & Light Katie feels a snap and switches off the tap Walks out…
Bloodlines His turbines twisting back to her Sea ripples like thin-skin…
Bodies You've grown up so much since I saw you all…
Bricks The bicycles inside your skull Send you away and off you…
Bullets Green hills and enemies These things they make us sentimenta…
By This Now the dawn is breaking All the breath has gone In the…
Cans here comes another one faster than the one before here com…
Clump (hello?) You will run to You will run to In the distanc…
Code Breaker Like Watson and Crick You seem to look Into my soul And thou…
Crow Old friend, do you make the sun set Do you make…
death and the maiden retold She walked out quietly one morning in May Cars and the…
Death Is the New Sex Faded old paper on the walls Open door window rattle Crackle…
Don't Look Down Or Back She rises with the sun Awoken and undone The postman passe…
Engine Room Stuck in a holiday Far into the river Sick of the flower…
Evaporate Time Slows Down Everything crystalline Your soft smile Sowin…
Fair Doreen Oh fair Doreen the night has seen You ply your trade…
Flatland People wear the strangest skins Faces made of plasticine Li…
Follow Follow Through smoke and sleight of hand He does what he can He…
Hands He stands with his head in his hands In the corridor…
Hanged Breaking the son 'til the son breaks down…
Hustle When I come home, you won't be there any more When…
It Breaks Milly passes from the swing Runs home for her tea Wants to…
It's Because... We've Got Hair We don't like it anymore, than you do We don't like…
Jay Down Soft wings and gentle tongue Mountains that breathe as long …
Jenny Again Jenny so shy Jenny so shy So shy So shy Jenny Throw the kni…
King Four foot nothing knees stained with dirt When we went hidi…
Kinky Vans Kinky vans Kinky vans Kinky vans Kinky vans Kink…
Magpie Bites The voices in your head have borrowed songs in from…
Man in the Box Distance..of.. the barrel The joining.. of.. the tin man D…
Mother Young girl stuck to the water Time will tell if you're…
No Man Can Find the War Photographs of guns and flame Scarlet skull and distant game…
October A trick of the light, a turn of the tide A…
Once Steal for the last time She must be the One Time is…
Out the Window With the Window Oh... I was smart, drunk, alright Oh, I remember, oh, oh,…
People Folk I saw the sun I saw the sun I saw the sun…
Pioneers If it can be broke then it can be fixed It…
Pool Beneath The pond Pool beneath the pond The skater shall beware Touch the sa…
Red and Green Red heels and bright blue eyes Walking a steady line Fire …
Santiago Remember the first and last goodbye Looking for answers to …
Sashimi Escaping through plastic White beads into the mixture Ex…
Secrets find a pine tree up in the hills with a hole…
So Far from Here What we had was all the same We were all so…
Song of the Sea My old transistor radio buzzing Hot crazy island dirty she d…
Soup Soup!…
Spoons up the stairs they glided into the attic dusting the sheets…
Stories Comments of the inner chorus x 3 Tomes, stories, magical wo…
String hang my eyes up on a hook swells the panic i…
Surprise Me We'll come around when the sun falls down We'll slow retrea…
Sweet William I saw you kiss sweet William In a forest of red…
Take All eyes ablaze We saw her in the old light Oh Oh,…
Tale Fom Black She washes all the young blood from her hands in…
The Bonnie Black Hare On the 14th of May, at the dawn of the…
The Pioneers If it can be broke then it can be fixed It…
The Roadside where are you going to? can I go with you? no, you…
The Village And there were people And there were choices Our minds wer…
The wind up bird These books were alive they spoke to me The books have…
These Winds helena's hollow she lives in a sail drift on a promise of…
Weekend Away Wander through the wreckage, all is said and done Faces dan…
Wind Up Bird These books were alive they spoke to me The books have…
With Whiskey He believed in you Remember when he said: "Words are alway…
Wood The boys pitched their old canvas in sun And the scattering…
Woodcat Woodcat oh once a girl but not since the incident Lives…