Since their foundation in 1998, múm have forged a sublimely bright, warm and rich take on electronica. The group’s celebrated debut album ‘Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK’ gained a wealth of glowing press and widespread praise. Their FatCat debut, ‘Finally We Are No-One’, was released in May 2002 and followed by a plethora of
Since their foundation in 1998, múm have forged a sublimely bright, warm and rich take on electronica. The group’s celebrated debut album ‘Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK’ gained a wealth of glowing press and widespread praise. Their FatCat debut, ‘Finally We Are No-One’, was released in May 2002 and followed by a plethora of tours taking the band many times around the world, dazzling the crowds by re-creating their recorded works with the main focus being on live instrumentation.
Mum have since found their home on the Berlin based Morr Music label where they released their last studio album in 2009 entitled ‘Sing Along to Songs You Dont Know’. Their new album ‘Smilewound’ is released Sept 6th 2013.
You don’t need to be Freud to regard teeth as a delicate issue. They can make joy look joyous and pain look painful, and on the cover of the new múm album they do both at the same time. As „Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is Okay“ (2001), „Finally We Are No One“ (2002) and „Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know“ (2009) „Smilewound“ is another example of the band’s art of juxtaposing two conflicting meanings and taking advantage of the energy created through the tension between both.
Recorded in, among other places, the band’s practice- space, an old baltic farmhouse and on the kitchen-table after dinner, the album was produced by múm themselves. And being the revolving collective they are, it comes as no surprise that we see the return of former member Gyda. Defining satellites as part of the core fits nicely with the band’s penchant for ambivalence – in fact that’s part of the album’s charm.
