Mum Announces August Festival Dates

Be sure to catch the Icelandic collective at:

Fri, 1-Aug: Ireland, County Roscommon, Mantua Lives
Sat, 2-Aug: UK, Manchester, A Day At The Races
Sun, 3-Aug: UK, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Big Chill
Sat, 9-Aug: Estonia, Leigo Lake Festival
Fri, 15-Aug: Finland, Helsinki Festival

Visit Mum on MySpace.

Image courtesy of The New Yorker.

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Mum: World Tour 2008

Catch Iceland's finest at:

27 feb - Vox Hall - Aarhus, Denmark
28 feb - Star Club - Dresden, Germany
01 march - Fabryca - Warsaw, Poland
02 march - Hipnoza - Katowice, Poland
03 march - Ampere - Munchen, Germany
04 march - Kaserne - Basel, Switzerland
05 march - Viper - Florence, Italy
06 march - Fri Son - Fribourg, Switzerland
07 march - Karlstorbanhof - Heidelberg, Germany
08 march - AB - Brussels, Belgium
09 march - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Holland
13 march - Mosaic Music Festival - Singapore
15 march - Zoo - Brisbane, Australia
16 march - Northcote - Melbourne, Australia
17 march - Corner - Melbourne, Australia
18 march - Manning Bar - Sydney, Australia
19 march - Rosemount - Perth, Australia
25 april - Coachella Festival - California, US

Visit Mum at their MySpace page.

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Mum Discusses Icelandic Experimentalism With BBC

Enjoy the full piece in the clip below. Learn more about Mum here at the band's MySpace page. In related Icelandic music news, follow this link to watch Sigur Ros at last month's BBC Electric Proms, performing a stunning version of 'Agaetis Byrjun'. Mum MP3 at bottom.

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Mum Debuts Clip For 'Rhubarbidoo'

The video is nothing short of (bizarrely) beautiful. What else would you expect, really?

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Mum Fills In The Blanks With New Clip

Icelandic experimentalists, Mum, have just released their new video for the tune, 'They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded', and it's a winner. View the clip in its entirety below. Learn more about Mum's forthcoming album, Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy here.


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New Mum Album Cover: Love It Or Hate It?

Mum's forthcoming album is titled go go smear the poison ivy. Here's the tracklisting:

1. blessed brambles
2. a little bit, sometimes
3. they made frogs smoke ‘til they exploded
4. these eyes are berries
5. moon pulls
6. marmalade fires
7. rhuubarbidoo
8. dancing behind my eyelids
9. school song misfortune
10. i was her horse
11. guilty rocks
12. winter (what we never were after all)

Love or hate the cover art?

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New Mum Album Due This September

Via Fat Cat: *It's been over 3 years since the release of múm's last album Summer make good, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge. And now finally, a string of dates over the Summer, heralding a long-awaited new album, strangely titled go go smear the poison ivy, due out 24th September 2007. A colourful, twitching, playful work of art, full of life affirming energy, the album will be preceded by the single they made frogs smoke 'til they exploded on 27th August. A chirpy song about animal cruelty, it’s backed with 'the amateur show', described by the band as a wonky insect-circus instrumental.

With the departure of Kristín Vlatýsdóttir at the beginning of the creative process, the core of múm is again down to the original duo of founding members Gunnar and Örvar, but the band itself is now larger than ever, counting in all seven people. The album was recorded at a variety of locations, including the music school in the small fishingtown of Ísafjörður in the west fjords of iceland, where the band made use of the schools various instruments. The songs on this multifarious album were conceived over a long period in many a different fashion, with one song even dating back to the period of 'Yesterday was dramatic, today is OK.'.*

Read our review of Screaming Masterpiece, a DVD documentary about the Icelandic music scene, here.

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