Singer Sam Genders and producer Mike Lindsay started out writing soundtracks for soft-porn movies, but don't let that put you off sampling the rather more subtle delights of their new project. In theory, mixing folk music with electronic beats sounds like a fairly unappetising recipe. In the hands of people who know what they're doing, however, it can prove surprisingly tasty - and on the evidence of Tunng's debut album, they know exactly what they're doing. If you're familiar with the cult horror movie The Wicker Man, you'll get the general idea - these are exactly the sort of songs that psychotic pagans on a remote Scottish island might hum to themselves as they're offering up another unfortunate human sacrifice. And somehow, the intrusion of modern sound effects into these elemental, doom-laden compositions only heightens the general sense of foreboding. A creepy classic.

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