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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
What a brilliant album !, 29 May 2002
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 !"
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Beautiful Melancholy Electronic Lullaby Folk, 21 May 2002
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
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Magic and fragility, 6 Aug 2004
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
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