Sounding like you might expect a collective whose key members met at the Green Man Festival to do, The Accidental are a lesson in super-friendly, shaggy-dog bonhomie. Much of this warm, easy welcome has to do with one member in particular, Sam Genders of Tunng. If you’re familiar with those film-sampling, toenail-playing Pentangle fans, not hearing Tunng in ‘There Were Wolves’ is like ignoring a large elephant sat in your favourite chair.
It’s not a problem. Anything that resembles Tunng’s shambling psych-folk is a delight and The Accidental’s other members, Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band), Hannah Caughlin (The Bicycle Thieves) and Liam Bailey, bring their own patches to this comfort quilt of music. Tunng’s glitch stylings and other distractions are nowhere to be heard, allowing these songs (co-written by Genders and Cracknell) to blow by on a warm breeze of harmonies and cheerful chorusing, invisibly looped picking, strings and a soft, beatsy pitter-patter.
Melodically it’s a little grey, but this album’s charm would be overwhelmed and muddied if it were adorned with too much pop.
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