Album Review: Love You All Over Again by Tunng

Two decades on from their debut, Mike Lindsay and co are back with an album that seems to greet you like an old friend This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Tunng album, Mother’s Daughter And Other Songs – and in the two decades since its release, they’ve become known as leading lights in the ‘folktronica’ movement. Whether it be Sam Genders’ other band, Diagrams, or Mike Lindsay’s work with Laura Marling in LUMP, their influence seems to have spread far and wide. For the band’s eighth album, Love You All Over Again, they’ve returned to the sound of that debut album.

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Their eighth studio album, Love You All Over Again, reaffirms the British sextet's signature - a rich amalgam of the rustic and cosmopolitan, the acoustic and digital, conventional stylings run through a Dadaistic filter. Over the course of their 20-year run, the band have demonstrated a keen absorption of folk precedents, including the Irish/British/Appalachian canon, possibly owing a notable debt to Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson. They have also, however, consistently situated themselves in an avant-garde context, their early recordings exemplifying the folktronic subgenre, and likely inspiring such artists as Bon Iver and Sylvan Esso.

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