Description:	Double LP on Morr Music
	Format:	Double LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Morr Music
	Price:	£14.19
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Business Lady on 21 August 2009.

Last up it's Mum with their new long player 'Sing along to songs you don't know' out on Euphono records. These icelandic eccentric pop maestro's have been at it for a while with this being their fifth studio album. I've not heard much of their precious output but i am familiar with the work Mum vocalist has done with Mice Parade. I liked that stuff a lot and this ain' t to bad either, a real mixed bag of odd pop compositions expertly played and produced. It's relatively back throughout with smatterings of excitement and energy. 'The river don't stop to breathe' works really well, mixing electronic groves and some strange guitar tones with odd percussion and mallets, it's one of those tunes that couples a jittery rhythmic back beat with a smooth strings and a silky vocal delivery. It's master balladeering with beat you can dance too. Part folk tinged electronica, part grand, expansive pop 'Sing along to songs you don't know' brings to mind elements of Animal Collective, Sigor Ros and Dan Deacon's grandeur with the aforementioned Mice Parade's impeccable rhythmic policies. Nice record.

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Sound clips for Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know by Mum: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. Double LP (vinyl), Morr Music, MM092LP, £14.19.

What their label says...

Two years after the release of their last album, eccentric pop maestros múm return with their fifth album proper, simply named Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know. A flickering candle of an album, the album is more laid back than múm's recent outings, this time much of the songs revolve around
a lightly prepared piano, hammered dulcimer, a string quartet, marimbas, guitars, ukuleles and in the background of a few of the songs one can hear Örvar's parent's parakeet singing with the piano.
The album was recorded in countless different places in four different countries, although most of it was done in múm's native Iceland.

The band or group or collective or whatever people want to call it consists on this album of Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (trumpet / piano/ keyboards/ string arrangements), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello/vocals), Sigurlaug Gísladóttir (Vocals/ ukulele/
various), Róbert Reynisson (guitars/ukuleles) and Finlander, Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion). Högni Egilsson, also joins in a few songs, sharing songwriting duties on one song and arranging choir for two others and Guðbjörg Hlín Guðmundsdóttir plays violin.

Track Listing:
01. If I Were A Fish 02. Sing Along 03. Prophecies & Reversed Memories 04. A River Don't Stop To Breathe 05. The Smell Of Today Is Sweet Like
Breastmilk In The Wind 06. Show Me 07. Hullaballabalú 08. Blow Your Nose 09. Kay-ray-ku-ku-ko-kex 10. Last Shapes Of Never 11. Illuminated 12.