Every time I try to write about Múm, I feel like I’m making a pharmaceutical commercial from the future. This Icelandic band’s music contains soft vocals, pillowy instrumentation, strange noises and ...

The song that opens the latest múm album bears a passing resemblance, if only lyrically, to a certain Bobby Darin hit from 1966. “If I were a fish/And you were a seashell,” it begins, over what sounds ...

Icelandic pop oddities Múm have announced their return, with a new album titled Smilewound set to arrive September 17 via Morr Music. Despite issuing the rarities collection Early Birds in 2012, this ...

Icelandic indietronica/post-rock band múm announced last month that History Of Silence, their first studio album in over a decade, would arrive this September. They broke the news with the very pretty ...

When Icelandic ensemble Múm first appeared at the turn of the century they immediately stood out for their unique blending of organic and electronic sounds. It may not have translated into a similar ...

The track was taken from Múm’s latest LP “Go Go Smear The Posion Ivy” on Fatcat Records. Overture was born of Jason Malcolm Brown and Aya Yamasaki Brown in the final days of August, 2004. A focal ...

Earlier this year, Icelandic experimental veterans Múm released Early Birds, a 15-track compilation of some of their earliest unreleased material. Today, we have the clip for the slowly blooming track ...

Múm are back. The Icelandic band will release its first album since 2013 at the end of the summer. The new album, History of Silence, is out September 19 via Morr Music. Leading the comeback effort is ...

Few nationalities have a musical DNA quite as distinctive as the Icelandic. From their frozen isle in the far flung north-west fringes of Europe, a production line of quite remarkable productivity for ...

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