Comments Of The Inner Chorus

One of the most anticipated releases of the year (at least for me) came out today: Tunng's Comments Of The Inner Chorus, a crazy, neo-folk/electronica mish mash that sounds like the result of a Four Tet and Elliott Smith collab. Funny, too, because as with FT, Tunng also uses a mix of real, acoustic instruments and electronic blips and effects...and as with ES, they took the layered vocals approach...ok, ok, you get my drift.

Tunng had a spot of brilliance, both musically and entrepreneurially, as they decided to release a cover of the more-popular-than-jesus Bloc Party as a single (see below). What a perfect P.R. move for a band that few had heard of up until then. Anyway, take a listen to a few of these tracks taken from today's release:

[MP3] Tunng - Jenny Again (for AL)
[MP3] Tunng - The Wind Up Bird

Grab more Sung Tongs...err...Tunng songs over at the Hype Machine
Get off your asses and buy this record!
Stylus gave it a B+

Bonus MP3 #1:

[MP3] Tunng - The Pioneers (Bloc Party Cover) (great cover)

Bonus MP3 #2:

[MP3] The Arcade Fire - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover)
Didn't even know this existed until yesterday, figured maybe a few of you hipsters might be outta the loop too. I don't really know how I feel about the song yet though...don't be expecting Funeral, that's for sure.