Múm

Iceland’s múm made their live debut in the United States in July of 2002 to a sold-out house at New York City’s Knitting Factory. The advance buzz on the band came thanks to their second release, Finally We Are No One, issued on the British label FatCat. múm is a foursome that includes twin sisters who were still teenagers when they teamed with two longtime friends to form an ambient-music act that has been described as a “baroque-techno pop quartet” by Village Voice critic Piotr Orlov. Yet múm’s work has little of the mathematically symmetrical structure of traditional baroque melodies. Instead, their music is arcane, sometimes without a melody, and filled with computer clicks, whispers, and sounds from nature. Despite the eerie mood-sets of their songs, Rolling Stone music writer David Fricke still called them a “pop group, building a gorgeous, sturdy music from sweet and tender materials. It’s not that you can’t dance to the results; a warm shiver of pleasure just seems more appropriate.”

Download:

- Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (2007)

- Summer Make Good (2005)

- Loksins erum við engin (Icelandic version of  Finally We Are No One)

- Finally We Are No One (2002)

- Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK (2000)

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