tunng – Anoraks
British folktronica outfit tunng close out a busy 2025 with “Anoraks,” following their January album “Love You All Over Again” and a sold-out European and UK tour. The band has spent over two decades exploring the space between acoustic and electronic music, helping define the folktronica genre before moving beyond it.
“Anoraks” came together differently than most tunng songs. Mike Lindsay sent Sam Genders a musical track, but instead of immediately inspiring lyrics, Genders sat with it. He was about to suggest they make it an instrumental when the story arrived fully formed, faster than he could write it down. He sent the surreal narrative to Lindsay, who asked for a chorus to complete it.
The track centres on a dreamlike story about jumping off cliffs and passing into strange realms. Intertwining acoustic guitars sit under electronic textures, with percussion that gives the song its unsettled feeling. Each member recorded their parts from home in different locations—Sweden, Margate, London—but the assembled pieces create the sonic unity tunng has become known for.
The lyrics move through vivid imagery: wet rocks flying at breakneck speed, skies made of painted tea bags, plastic grass revealed as tiny green cats. Genders captures the disorientation of lucid dreaming, where reality folds in on itself and you’re back on the clifftop in wet anoraks before you can process what happened.
Tunng formed in 2003 and has released seven studio albums, consistently redefining what folktronica can be while avoiding easy categorisation. “Anoraks” continues that tradition, proving they’re still finding new ways to blend the organic and the electronic.
