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 ...

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 ...

History of Silence (due Sept. 19) is the first new album from Icelandic outfit múm since 2013’s Smilewood. The new LP became something of a puzzle, taking two years to record, deconstruct, and put ...

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 ...

Several years ago I over wintered in Lausanne in Switzerland, living in an old military building high above the city. The closing in of December brought dense weather fronts that sat in the streets ...

Múm are a continuously evolving concern, and for their sixth album, Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know, the band line-up has changed again. Two members have remained constants – Gunnar Örn Tynes and ...

Icelandic pop oddities Múm have announced their return, with a new album titled Smilewound set to arrive September 17 via Morr Music. Despite issuing the rarities collection Early Birds in 2012, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recorded during Iceland's recent economic collapse and subsequent political unrest, Múm's fifth album is an uplifting, whimsical treat. If it reflects the general spirit among Icelanders, then the ...