by
Mum
- Record Label: 2.O.G. Ent / P.A.L.
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
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These twelve tracks make for diverting and beguiling company for the fifty or so minutes spent with them.
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It's a sweet hotpot of northern European record-making.
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UncutTinkling lo-fi arrangements evoke the scarred spookiness of mid-period Sparklehorse, rendering the whole charmingly (and sometimes chillingly) child-like. [Sep 2009, p.88]
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There's not a truly objectionable moment on the album, but neither are there many memorable ones, making it an album as difficult to genuinely like as to dislike.
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The personality is still a little cutesy, half-baked at times and downright cultish at others (“You! Are! So! Beau! Ti! Ful! To! Us!/ We! Want! To! Keep! You! As! Our! Pets!”), but it coheres, and makes a good focal point when the music fails to. That’s fails to, not fails.
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The unavoidable truth is, Mum is struggling to find itself.
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Under The RadarSing Along is both a frustration and incorporeal mood waiting to be coaxed out of hibernation. [Fall 2009, p.65]