Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Summer Make Good sees the band return with a bold and beautiful new album, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2002's acclaimed, Finally We Are No One. More cinematic than its predecessor, and undeniably darker in tone, Summer Make Good is as playful, narrative, and dynamic as it is melodic and emotive. Seamlessly blending live instrumentation and electronic/programmed elements, Múm produce a wealth of sonic texture, with instrumentation that includes m   [ read more ]

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Finally We Are No One is the stunning, highly anticipated second album from this Icelandic four-piece. Beautifully meshing dense-but-intricate programming with gorgeous vocal and instrumental melodies, richly textured, hypnotic, and unashamedly sumptuous, this is a stunning, emotive album whose pop surface belies a deep sense of exploration. Now based between Reykjavik and Berlin, múm are four kids from a middle class background, like most everybody else in Iceland. Two guys (Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örv   [ read more ]

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In a way it was only a matter of time before Múm would end up on Morr Music. Anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to the Icelandic quartet's celebrated debut album "Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK," knows that Múm's "eye shutting-bicycle beats, sounds and melodies" would feel suitably at home with the Morr. In a way their machines wrote this record themselves, while Múm were playing around on a mountain, lying down, standing up, running around. When they came back, they were surprised by their b   [ read more ]

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DELUXE DIGIPAK PACKAGING. It has been more than three years since the release of múm's last album, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge. And now, finally, a string of European festival appearances heralds their long-awaited new album, which will be supported by a full USA tour this fall. Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy is a colourful, twitching, playful work of art, full of life-affirming energy. Exuding an otherworldly, almost magical aura, múm make sonically warm, richly melodic e   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. In a way it was only a matter of time before Múm would end up on Morr Music. Anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to the Icelandic quartet's celebrated debut album "Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK," knows that Múm's "eye shutting-bicycle beats, sounds and melodies" would feel suitably at home with the Morr. In a way their machines wrote this record themselves, while Múm were playing around on a mountain, lying down, standing up, running around. When they came back, they were surpri   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. It has been more than three years since the release of múm's last album, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge. And now, finally, a string of European festival appearances heralds their long-awaited new album, which will be supported by a full USA tour this fall. Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy is a colourful, twitching, playful work of art, full of life-affirming energy. Exuding an otherworldly, almost magical aura, múm make sonically warm, richly melodic experimental    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. REISSUE. Official re-release of the magnificent Mum album Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK. Along with Sigur Ros, fellow Icelanders Mum are tipped for massive things this year. Mum is leftfield experimental pop at its very finest. A truly beautiful album, rhythm, great melodies, electronic bleeps and beats, accordians, glockenspiels, synths and lots lots more.

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VINYL FORMAT. These new songs were recorded at a variety of locations, including the music school in the small fishing town of Ísafjörður in the west fjords of iceland, where the band made use of the schools various instruments. Coincidentally, the drums were also recorded in an old school house, on the island of Nötö west of Finland. The songs were conceived over a long period in many a different fashion, with one song even dating back to the period of 'yesterday was dramatic, today is OK' ? perhaps a sign   [ read more ]

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This is a 15" x 26" Mum show poster for the November 10, 2007 show with Hauschka and Bing & Ruth at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. The poster is printed on white 100# cover stock and is a signed, numbered edition of 125. Designed by: Dan Stiles.

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7" FORMAT. Nightly Cares could not under any circumstances be described as anything other than beautiful . A Haunting piano line, the feel of something lost and forgotten, simple dusty instrumentation and even the typically charmed icelandic lyrical construction and kindergarten delivery all working together in life affirming solidarity : fragile, flawed, sublime, breathtaking. The exclusive track on the flip ?Once a Shiny Morning Puddle' is a more upfront, instrumental piece ? guitars, horns, drums    [ read more ]

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It has been more than three years since the release of múm's last album, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge. And now, finally, a string of European festival appearances heralds their long-awaited new album, which will be supported by a full USA tour this fall. Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy is a colourful, twitching, playful work of art, full of life-affirming energy. Exuding an otherworldly, almost magical aura, múm make sonically warm, richly melodic experimental music married    [ read more ]

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The long-awaited release of Mum's only ever Peel session, recorded at Maida Vale Studios in 2002 for BBC Radio One's infamous, revered, and fondly remembered John Peel show. The four tracks here (five if you include the amalgamation of the two songs on the opening track) are significantly different versions of songs that will be familiar to fans, yet fresh enough to warrant a widespread release of what amounts to a batch of stand-alone recordings by a young band at a creative peak. Before their line-up chan   [ read more ]

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