Like a stop-animation minature submarine ride through a tub of fluffy white frosting
Written: Dec 05 '05
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Pros: Full of optimistic beeps, seraphim-like vocals, robotic purrs/coos and whispered poetic to-do lists
Cons: Mostly instrumental, highly interpretational, barely intelligible, Múm is not for everyone
The Bottom Line: Comfortably eerie and odd, mechanical yet humanistic in its familiar sounds — the beauty in redundancy. The avid lucidity in ceasing to overlook what is normally taken for granted.
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| kris_kobayashi's Full Review: Finally We Are No One by Mum (Iceland) |
Every so often, Tinkerbell® smokes out and pays me a visit via accidental melodies. Zippers clinking in the dryer, garbage trucks’ reverse warnings, tunnel vent floe flows. There was a phase in my life where all I wanted to listen to was my laundry machine, Sunday morning birds, the beach, and maybe Autechre. Múm takes me back to that place, full of optimistic beeps and whispered poetic to-do lists: “Nightly Cares/ The Ghosts You Draw On My Back/ Stir/ Sing Me Out The Window”.
The Icelandic quartet’s Finally We Are No One offers a whirlwind of “tripping feet” clumsy drums (programmed of course), seraphim-like vocals, robotic purrs/coos, distant collating xeroxes, alternating intermittent violin and accordian wails and singular calliope toots. For example, Behind Two Hills.. a Swimming Pool’s one minute eight second languid bubble machine blends with a psuedo harpischord. A bit tinny, but oh-so cute, like a stop-animation minature submarine ride through a tub of fluffy white frosting. In fact, it does play much like a Jan Švankmajer animation. Comfortably eerie and odd, mechanical yet humanistic in its familiar sounds — the beauty in redundancy. The avid lucidity in ceasing to overlook what is normally taken for granted.
Mostly instrumental, highly interpretational, barely intelligible, Múm is not for everyone, but if you also love accidental music, Finally We Are No One may be a big treat.
-- Kris Kobayashi, www.dreamlogic.net
Recommended:
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Great Music to Play While: Listening
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