Tunng + Charles Atlas

Tunng began life in 2003 as a duo, but listening to the British band’s most recent album, …And Then We Saw Land, is akin to entering a favored coffeeshop and encountering a largely new staff. Singer Sam Genders is absent; in his place stands Becky Jacobs. Yet if the record deviates from Tunng’s previous three albums, the carefully woven emotional aura long at this band’s core remains intact. What in other players’ hands might prove unsettling seems gentle and unaffected. Far from band as amorphous blob, this is wholly personable—forever wintry and soothing.