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Track Listings
| 1. Sleep/swim |
| 2. Green Grass of Tunnel |
| 3. We Have a Map of the Piano |
| 4. Don’t Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed |
| 5. Behind Two Hills..... a Swimmingpool |
| 6. K/half Noise |
| 7. Now There’s That Fear Again |
| 8. Faraway Swimmingpool |
| 9. I Can’t Feel My Hand Any More, It’s Allright, Sleep Still |
| 10. Finally We Are No One |
| 11. The Land Between Solar Systems |
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I first heard of Mum via an Amazon recommendation last year. I bought the album "Yesterday Was Dramatic...Today is OK" on the strength of a track called "I`m 9 Today" and it`s still my favourite Mum track to date. I got "Finally We are No-one" ...It`s a brilliant album - much more consistent than "Yesterday" I think. Really chilled and dreamy.....truly beautiful. The shop guy was right too....the gig was absolutely fantastic........it added another dimension to the music. If you like this I would also recommend "Godspeed You Black Emperor !"
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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A simply beautiful album that is by turns wistful, distant, sad and sublimly uplifting. It mixes quiet glitching electronica with Icelandic instrumentation mixed into a hazy, mournful whole.
The melodies are gorgeous like that in a toy music box with the tiny dancing ballerina, child like, innocent lullabys to forgotten memories.
Occasionally vocals add lyrics to the textures sounding like Julie Cruise in Twin Peaks. I can't recommend this highly enough to those attracted by what others would describe as 'depressing music'. This is music for drifting, half remembered afternoons watching the clouds go by while distractedly trying to remember what you were supposed to be doing.
Also see their previous album 'Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Okay' for more.
If you are looking to place this against similar artists think of Sigur Ros, Boards Of Canada, Stina Nordenstam, Aphex Twin's ambient work, Bjork's Vespertine, Minotaur Shock, Arvo Part's 'Te Deum' and Jan garbarek's 'Rites', PG Six, In Gowan Ring, Fit & Limo & the seminal Tower Recordings 'Folk Scene' compilation
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A lot of very interesting music comes out of Iceland aside from Björk, and Múm are a fine example, Icelanders now based in Reykjavik and Berlin. The album was apparently conceived in a lighthouse in north-west Iceland and recorded in Reykjavik at the studios of Sigur Ros. The overall sound suggests what Vespertine might have sounded like without Björk; perhaps partly because they shared the same studio engineer, Valgeir Sigurdsson, but also because the sense of magic and fragility, and a child-like sense of discovery is overwhelmingly present on both.
From the album, Green Grass Of Tunnel was released as a single and was no. 48 in the 2002 John Peel Festive 50. Several other titles look like old Yoko Ono B-sides, for example Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed, and I Can't Feel My Hand Any More, It's Alright, Sleep Still. The album culminates in a glorious 12-minute epic, The Land Between Solar Systems.
Múm were at this time classically-trained Gyöa Valtýsdóttir (vocal, xylophone, melodica) and sister Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (vocal, cello, xylophone, melodica, keyboards), Gunnar Örn Tynes (keyboards, guitar), Örvar Fóreyjarson Smárason (keyboards, melodica, glockenspiel, guitar) and Samuli Koskinen (drums, percussion). Gyöa and Kristín can be seen on the cover of Belle and Sebastian's Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant album
From the album, Green Grass Of Tunnel was released as a single and was no. 48 in the 2002 John Peel Festive 50. Several other titles look like old Yoko Ono B-sides, for example Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed, and I Can't Feel My Hand Any More, It's Alright, Sleep Still. The album culminates in a glorious 12-minute epic, The Land Between Solar Systems.
Múm were at this time classically-trained Gyöa Valtýsdóttir (vocal, xylophone, melodica) and sister Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (vocal, cello, xylophone, melodica, keyboards), Gunnar Örn Tynes (keyboards, guitar), Örvar Fóreyjarson Smárason (keyboards, melodica, glockenspiel, guitar) and Samuli Koskinen (drums, percussion). Gyöa and Kristín can be seen on the cover of Belle and Sebastian's Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant album
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So that's why Múms go to Iceland!
I have just spent an extremely enjoyable hour, plugging up leaks in my bathroom wall with anti-mould shower sealant.
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Yes; you heard me right. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Smokin' A Blunt
It's a temperature thing!
Just a quicky on this as I only picked it up on spec at the library. Icy, doodly, tinkly, slowly developing, atmospheric music, with hushed and breathy female vocals on occasion. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2008 by Big Jim
Good Background Music
I think that this CD is good for relaxing or wineing and dining to. Just simply have it in the back-ground playing as it's that kind of music, i think it's a good album. Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2006 by Mr. W. Beacock
They Have a Map of the Piano
Mum specialise in the more organic end of electronica and, like fellow-Icelanders Sigur Ros and Bjork, seem to revel in fairy-tale abstraction and child-like imaginations. Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2004
Carries you to Iceland
I bought this merely to use as background music to my home movie of a trip to Iceland. I bought a Sigur Rós CD too. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2004 by A. Butterfield
I like it...I like it a lot
I am of the persuasion that this cd is a gem. It is one of those wonderful cd's that you listen to once, say "yeah, that's nice", let it collect dust for a few weeks, pick it up... Read more
Published on 1 April 2003 by Simon A. Woodhart
Too safe for my liking
I bought this album on the strength of the reviews on Amazon, and was particularly drawn in by the comparison to Boards of Canada. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2003 by Mr. E. Smith
Nice introvert Icelandic pop for Bjork, Sigur Ros fans
I bought this album on the strength of its outstanding track: 'We have a map of the piano', which is a sublimely gourgeous instrumental. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2002 by Keith D. Brown
a wide open field with the sun on your face
if you like the thought of living in a beautiful place where you can dance until your legs fall off, sing at the top of your voice
and feel as though the sun is forever on... Read more
and feel as though the sun is forever on... Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2002 by "littlecarolee"
Northern Lights
Iceland has been for years a fertile ground for unconventional musicians. After the Sugarcubes and Björk, Gus Gus and more recently Sigur Rós, Múm is now proving... Read more
Published on 21 May 2002
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