Tunng's fourth album had to have a big sound, band member Mike Lindsay said in an interview. A comment like that arouses interest almost immediately, because the folktronica formation on previous albums was just dealing in small, almost hidden sounds. Fans of the first hour can indulge themselves: And Then We Saw Land simply has the same characteristics as its predecessors. The record is based on
… acoustic listening songs that are graced with electronic tricks. Production never stops and attentively listening leads to many discoveries. Here and there the sound is more layered than before, with a choir or a rousing solo for example. But compared to Phil Spector's 'wall of sound', or an average shoega band, it remains small-scale music. Lindsay puts it best:more