Mum - The Peel Session

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4...according to our Phil on Fri 01 Dec, 2006.

MUM receive the inevitable Peel Session treatment. It had to happen really….. Available on CD and 12” it's actually a glorious re treading of some of their earlier moments when everything was more clicky and twinkly. Some nice crunchy bits in there too chucked in for good measure. Despite the whole indietronica scene going (rightfully) tits up and then flat on its arse (and being sent to hospital where it lies dormant in a coma where Thomas Morr goes to visit it daily) this is a pleasing and timely reminder of why Mum were seen as pioneers in the scene. I really, really enjoyed this, When I saw 'em do the 1st album last year I thought they were great as well. Royal Bradford Infirmary is the hospital by the way….. send some grapes… I hear indietronica likes grapes

The long-awaited release of Mms only ever Peel Session, recorded at Maida Vale Studios in 2002 for Radio Ones infamous, revered and fondly remembered John Peel Show. The five tracks here (marked as four tracks) are significantly different versions of songs that will be familiar to fans, but this EP amounts to a batch of stand-alone recordings by a young band at their creative peak. Bridging the gap between their universally acclaimed debut, and their more expansive, sonically detailed follow up Finally We Are No One, these tracks represent a band in transition from the warm naivety of Yesterday to a more sonically detailed approach, more commonly associated with their current output. Curiously, the EP is a significant precursor to the bands new material, due Spring 2007, in tone, if not execution. The band are now an expansive collective, blurring the distinction between live band and electronica

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