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 ...

Icelandic experimental pop group múm is known for its curiosity-driven explorations in electronic music, blending soft vocals, glitch beats, innovative sampling, and eerie effects with a variety of ...

The Icelandic group’s first album in 13 years dusts off a bygone strain of turn-of-the-millennium electro-folk. The acoustic textures can be appealing, but some twee habits die hard. No score yet, be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Icelandic band múm have announced History of Silence, their first album in 12 years, which will be out September 19 via Morr Music. It’s their seventh album and was recorded over two years in Guagnano ...

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Just as Flight of the Conchords have to live with the mantle of being "New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-parody duo", múm have to carry the burden of being Iceland's third most popular ...

Icelandic outfit múm have been preparing us for their first album in seven years -- History of Silence, out two weeks from today -- with the glistening singles "Mild At Heart" and "Only Songbirds Have ...