Description:	CD on Fat Cat
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	FatCat
	Price:	£11.09
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...according to our Phil on 20 September 2007.

Mum are a band you either love or hate. Unusually I sit on the fence here. I loved the 1st album and I've liked a few bits here and there but nothing as much as that great debut. I still think they're eminently capable and they have written the odd great tune over the last few years. Here's their new album called 'Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy' which I can say I've now heard more than any other Mum album aside from the debut. It's a grower I'll give 'em that. There's some cracking tunes on this one but maybe they've sunk in more cos I've heard it about 10 times now. I can find merit in anything I've heard that much.....Maybe I judge them harshly cos I like that 1st album so much and nothing else quite matches it? if this was their debut record I think it would stand up as a great record though and I suppose that's the biscuit. I love biscuits me. Beautiful twinkly sounding intelligent music with that Icelandic approach (you know.. hat sound that most acts from iceland have...) It's still indietronica though and that is truly a shit name for a genre. Worth checking out!!

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What their label says...

With the departure of Kristin Valtysdottir, the core of Mum is once again Gunnar and Orvar, but the band itself is larger than ever, counting in all seven people.   ·Eschewing an otherworldly, almost magical aura, Mum make experimental music that is naturally, effortlessly imbued with a pop sensibility.   Mum’s new material bridges the gap between their universally acclaimed debut and their more expansive sonically detailed recent output.  ·Sonically warm, gorgeously rich and melodic, the band use an array of instruments (guitar, bass, drums, synths, laptops, cello, accordion, mutated brass) alongside electronic bleeps, washes, and beats, blurring the distinction between live band and electronic outfit.·The campaign for ‘Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy’ will run well into 2008 with two UK visits this year, and further dates in Spring 2008, three singles, videos and a fully operational band playing sessions and providing mixes and remixes.