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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 ...

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 ...

After getting off the Blue Line to go to the Múm show, my friend and I became hopelessly lost. We wandered around Logan Square for a bit before deciding to just follow the hipsters to the well ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Several years ago I over wintered in Lausanne in Switzerland, living in an old military building high above the city. The closing in of December brought dense weather fronts that sat in the streets ...

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 ...