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You could make a case that all popular music is an argument about technology — how far we should take it, what role it should play, what you lose when you use technology rather than unadorned voice and instruments (which, come to think of it, are a form of technology in themselves). The question really surfaces, though, with bands like Tunng, who combine the most traditional forms of folk music with electronic flourishes in ways that seem so natural that you wonder where the borders are. This is the kind of music where human voices morph into computerized washes of sound, where the simplest, loveliest sorts of folk harmonies lie comfortably atop the blurps and twitches of electronic beats, and where it all fits together, almost magically. You can compare Tunng's iridescent tunes to Manitoba (now Caribou) or the Beta Band, but this band is rooted more in deep folk modality, luminous as Gary Higgins in spots, but structured with space-age rhythms and accents.

Mother's Daughter & Other Songs percolates along, remaining intense and driving even at low volumes. There's a pulse to it that gives its tunes a modern edge, even when the melodies sound like 1960s British folk. "Fair Doreen" is perhaps the most folky. It glows with Pentangle-ish guitar chords and close harmonies, yet its crackling, popping electro beat moves the piece forward. "Pool Beneath the Pond" layers precise, world-beat-ish drums with a looped guitar phrase in a way that is jigsaw-complicated yet full of air and light. And the title track, "Mother's Daughter," takes a beautiful fragment of a woman's voice and transforms it into electronic squiggles mid-tone, making it wonderfully natural and strange at the same time. This vocal sound floats atop abrasive, burped-out percussion and radiant, resonant guitar chords, its tone stretched and mutated in the background. It lends a ghostly, visionary quality to the verse, when it comes, making a song that could be CSN-conventional into something unearthly and mysterious.

One of the disc's highlights comes near the end in "Code Breaker," where, over a clipped and mantra-ish guitar line, the singer whispers lyrics about the limits of science and the mysteries of human attraction. Though referencing double-helix discoverers and quantum theorists, the cut seems to come down on the side of love, unknowable as always but communicated through gorgeous fragments of song.


by Jennifer Kelly




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