Pitchfork

It's getting harder than ever to pigeonhole London sextet and recent Thrill Jockey signings Tunng as simply "folk". Prior albums like 2006's Comments of the Inner Chorus allowed electronics and unusual instrumentation to creep into pastoral songwriting indebted to, yes, British folk luminaries like the Incredible String Band and Nick Drake. "Bullets", from Tunng's new album Good Arrows, plucks its lyrical vividness from the Brit-folk songbook, but it opens over an indietronic keyboard hum that might fit comfortably on a playlist alongside Apparat's "Komponent (Telefon Tel Aviv remix)". "Your words are gelignite," co-founder Sam Gender intones, tossing off vocab you thought only Morrissey knew. Then "Bullets" picks up the oompah of Pulp's "Mile End", and it's off to the music hall. Progress is a grand tradition, too.

[from Good Arrows; due 09/25/07 in the U.S. on Thrill Jockey, and out now in the UK on Full Time Hobby]