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Mum
- Record Label: 2.O.G. Ent / P.A.L.
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
- Summary: This is the fifth album for the Icelandic group.
- Record Label: 2.O.G. Ent / P.A.L.
- Genre(s): Indie, Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 14
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Mixed: 7 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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MojoIlluminated, with its wistful wordless vocals, keening melody and swooping strings, is arguably a career peak. [Sep 2009, p.102]
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The album is at many times more open and engaging than some of those earlier gems and has a lighthearted nature that retains the balance of sating old fans and sparking new ones.
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FilterOn Sing, through chipper dulcimers, ukuleles and tons of brass, the outfit makes maelodies that, though still weary, are joyfully yet vaguely reminiscent of Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson. [Fall 2009, p.92]
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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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It's a sweet hotpot of northern European record-making.
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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 songs are generally slow, samey, and sleep-inducing, and the lyrics, any language differences notwithstanding, are hard to take seriously, even for a guy who raved about I'm From Barcelona.
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