reviews / 2013

TUNNG - Turbines

2013 (Full time hobby)
ambient-folk, folk-pop, psych-folk
by Lorenzo Righetto
6

Un’ambientazione fioca, un registro sempre più abbozzato – che sembra sottintendere un più severo e riflessivo impianto concettuale – sembrano le caratteristiche del nuovo album dei Tunng, un disco che non si concede quasi mai ai più solari motivi della carriera della band inglese, ma resta preda di oscure visioni (“Heavy Rock Warning”) e groove irrisolti (“The Village”).

Amid tribal shards ("So Far From Here") and chewed-up, Vernon-esque riffs ("By This"), "Turbines" betrays an ever more prevalent psych streak, a dark maturity of sound that doesn't, however, carry through into the songwriting, where it's hard to tell inspired refinement from flagging inspiration ("Embers", the trip-hop nursery rhyme of "Trip Trap").

In definitiva, un disco dal tono solenne, complessivamente spento, grigio come il pallido tono pastorale delle sue armonizzazioni.

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10/07/2013

This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Lorenzo Righetto, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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Tracklist

  1. 1. Once
  2. 2. Trip Trap
  3. 3. By This
  4. 4. The Village
  5. 5. Bloodlines
  6. 6. Follow Follow
  7. 7. So Far From Here
  8. 8. Embers
  9. 9. Heavy Rock Warning

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