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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. As "Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is Okay" (2001), "Finally We Are No One" (2002) and "Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know" (2009) "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 colours 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 the "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. Style: Indie Pop

Icelandic pop experimentalists múm will release a collection of rarities on July 17th via Morr Music. Early Birds collects demos and rare/forgotten vinyl releases from the band’s early years between 1998 and 2000. The 15-tracks serve as a glimpse at what they were coming up before their Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today is OK debut. Most of the songs are instrumental, recorded during a nomadic period in founding members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson’s lives that found them in basement studios across Europe from Iceland to France. Though delicate melodies bind the songs together, there are two distinctive moods on the album. “The first half of the compilation leans on the playful side, where experimentation is key,” states a press release. “The second half incorporates those quieter tracks, with only a few analog layers, harmonious and blissful, revolving around each other for minutes.” Both vinyl and CD editions will contain a booklet detailing each track. See the complete track CD, Compilation

the icelandic collective convinces with new pop songs betweeen Post-Rock and electronica, complexity and naivity, structure and amorphous things and chambermusical seriousness, always melancholic, but never be depressive. concepted and recorded on diverse Style: Independent

the icelandic collective convinces with new pop songs betweeen Post-Rock and electronica, complexity and naivity, structure and amorphous things and chambermusical seriousness, always melancholic, but never be depressive. concepted and recorded on diverse Style: Independent

Klein Records back program now available via Zomba Record Label: Klein Records Style: Dance

Record Label: Morr Music Style: Elektronika

5th album after 2 years by the Popmaster-duo from Island. Style: Electronica

Style: Pop