Tunng present new standalone single, "Anoraks"

The release of "Anoraks" concludes a busy year for Tunng, who released their 20th anniversary album Love You All Over Again in January, which was followed by a sold-out headline tour throughout Europe and the UK. Each band member’s part on the song was recorded from home in different places – Sweden, Margate, and London.

“One of the ways we write songs in Tunng is that Mike [Lindsay] sends me a musical track and I write a melody and lyric over it”, says Sam Genders. “That was our plan with this but for reasons I can't explain Mike's beautiful piece of music didn't immediately inspire a song in the way it usually might. I was about to send it back and suggest we turn it into an instrumental but then the story popped into my head. It fell in a bit like a dream... faster than I was able to write it down. It's a little different to what we usually do so I was slightly nervous to send it to him. Luckily he liked it and asked for a chorus.”

“It took me a while to get my head back into Tunng world to write this piece of music. It’s different to starting an album, where you know you will build a journey out of 10 songs. We knew we just wanted to write one really special song. One day my head was very much IN Tunng world and these intertwined acoustic guitars and electronic textures pinged out. Then when Sam sent me a voice recording of this incredibly beautiful, psychedelic story, only one day after I sent the instrumental to him, I was in love. Becky then sent me a voice recording from London of her vocal and Phil and Marty came to my Margate studio for clarinets, percussion and synth bass lines. Ash then flew in his hauntingly perfect saw parts from Somerset and a beautiful guitar part on the nylon string,” adds Mike Lindsay.