múm Streams New Album at Pitchfork Advance This Week

múm Streams New Album at Pitchfork Advance This Week  
Fourth Full-length Smilewound Out Sept 17    Stream Smilewound at Pitchfork Advance Here

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Icelandic experimental-pop collective múm have offered an early preview of their forthcoming album, Smilewound , out September 17th on Morr Music at Pitchfork Advance. Smilewound was recorded in the band's studio, an old Baltic farmhouse, and on the kitchen table after dinner, among other places, and was produced by múm themselves. Formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárasoneing, the band has hosted a revolving door of players over the years, and sees the return of third founding member Gyða Valtýsdóttir on this new release.

Following their 2009 album, Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know , the band's fourth effort shows the juxtaposing of two conflicting meanings, taking advantage of the energy created through the tension between both. Sparser in sound than many of its predecessors, it's an airy, relaxed record.  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. It's no wonder antipodean pop-princess Kylie Minogue wanted to collaborate with them on 'Whistle,' the main song in 2012 film Jack & Diane , they were hand-picked by Brian Eno to attend last years's edition of Norway's Punkt Festival, they performed at Iceland Airwaves, and they were part of Sónar Festival's first Reykjavík Edition earlier this year.

       Smilewound Tracklisting
1. Toothwheels 2. Underwater Snow 3. When Girls Collide 4. Slow Down 5. Candlestick 6. One Smile 7. Eternity Is The Wait Between Breaths 8. The Colorful Stabwound 9. Sweet Impressions 10. Time To Scream And Shout 11. Whistle (With Kylie) 1. Toothwheels 2. Underwater Snow 3. When Girls Collide 4. Slow Down 5. Candlestick 6. One Smile 7. Eternity Is The Wait Between Breaths 8. The Colorful Stabwound 9. Sweet Impressions 10. Time To Scream And Shout 11. Whistle (With Kylie)

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