Tunng released their second album, Comments of the Inner Chorus, through Full Time Hobby in May. Since then they have spent recent months extending their social and creative networks.

Mike, in particular, has been an industrious soul, collaborating with rising Brazilian star Cibelle on her new record and remixing Flotel’s track for the new Expanding Records compilation. They’ve even touched down over the Pond, with their remix of Bloc Party’s Pioneers featuring in a recent episode of The OC. Hollywood, here they come!

The most recent single, Jenny Again, is proof once more that it’s the quiet ones you have to keep an eye peeled for. It’s a spooky paean from the grave to killer from victim – an original perspective for song if ever there was one. Delivered with such wit and melody as to neatly counterbalance the subversive subject material and embroidered by Tunng’s usual eye for detail, such as the creepy repetitive voice in the intro. Says Mike:

“The sample at the start is from an old educational 70s poetry record. The song is about a guy who kills his brother so he can be with his brother’s girlfriend, written from the dead brothers point of view… so it’s like a forgiveness song not so much a murder ballad….”

All in three minutes’ work for Tunng, who excel in the art of making a slightly unsettling lyric orbit your brain like it’s the chorus of some unassuming chart-friendly pop song. It’s not all tweed jackets and peering at wildlife in the folk world, you know.

“I feel the tune has a quite traditional structure, a kind of familiarity about it, and the production is very subtle, but this track is really all about Sam’s lyrics. It’s sweet and sad.”

Tunng are signed to FULL TIME HOBBY Recorded at: ABC Glasgow on 20th October 2006 Gig promoted by: PCL