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01. MUM - Toothwheels
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02. MUM - Underwater Snow
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03. MUM - When Girls Collide
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04. MUM - Slow Down
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05. MUM - Candlestick
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06. MUM - One Smile
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07. MUM - Eternity Is The Wait Between Breaths
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08. MUM - The Colorful Stabwound
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09. MUM - Sweet Impressions
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ARTIST
MUM
TITLE
Smilewound
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MORR MUSIC
CATALOG #
MORR 124CD
MORR 124CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
9/17/2013
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.
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. Sparser in sound than many of its predecessors,
Smilewound
is an airy, relaxed record. The múm core duo of
Örvar
and
Gunni
doesn't make you laugh out loud (except maybe for the quirky vintage arcade-sound-start of "When Girls Collide"), but it will make you smile often -- despite the heavenly voices singing about violence in one form or another in most songs. Musically, múm's capability to build playful electronic sound-ornaments around simple melodies is in full bloom. And these days they know that trimming the ornamentation can strengthen the melody. Take "The Colorful Stabwound": an aguish drum 'n' bass piece and
Smilewound
gets close to a straight pop-song. Even that isn't very close, but it combines its rhythmic strength with a simple yet effective piano-line and the soothing lushness of a female voice to something compelling that follows you like the smell of a delicate eau de toilette. Or "Candlestick," which started out as a little ditty strummed on an acoustic guitar many years ago and has grown into this bouncy piece of synth-pop that changes its musical colors every couple of beats until you feel comfortably dizzy. Perfect pop in very fancy clothes. No wonder that antipodean pop-princess
Kylie Minogue
wanted to collaborate with múm on "Whistle," the main song in 2012 movie
Jack & Diane
. 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.
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