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Having gained a reputation as spearheaders of the recent folktronica movement through their last two records, Tunng have created a much fuller recording this time. Good Arrows is less folk, increasingly experimental and a whole lot darker. Lyrics such as "he stands with his head in his hands, in the corridor of A and E, he couldn't resuscitate her, and now he'll go home to his wife for tea" are a snapshot of the macabre, evocative and often witty tales from little England. Stand out tracks like Bullets see the collective drive organic, folky melodies into the skin but the juxtaposition of oblique and haunting lyrics define Tunng's sound. The record is beautifully produced with sounds, bleeps, samples and noises reminiscent of Autechre and Aphex Twin heavily embedded in the music thanks, largely, to Phil Winters the "laptop man". Tunng are a hard band to pigeon hole with Mike Lindsay feeling the misnomer "folktronica" is perhaps too misleading and the range of acoustic instruments, earthy melodies, brooding lyrics and eclectic samples create a warm sound placed a million miles from their contemporaries. Ultimately, as the seasons filter from one to the next, this longplayer arouses long-forgotten fervours like the child-like rapture of discovering secrets hidden in a remote oak at the bottom of a scorched field.
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