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Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Mojo
    Sep 19, 2013
    80
    Pared-down twinkly electronic pop with arcane instruments alloyed to laptop smarts that chills as it enchants. [Oct 2013, p.98]
  2. Sep 17, 2013
    80
    Smilewound beckons and fans out, drawing the listener further and further into its own sonic world, both familiar to fans of múm’s sound and very much unlike anything that they have done previously.
  3. 80
    Smilewound’s gleeful, weird-pop eclecticism builds up the goodwill to cover any lull.
  4. Sep 3, 2013
    80
    Smilewound is delicate, crunchy and as beautiful as the fountainhead of music whence it came.
  5. Sep 3, 2013
    80
    The album is easily Múm's most commercial to date.
  6. Under The Radar
    Dec 4, 2013
    70
    Smilewound is a notably more pop effort from this hard-forecast group, and perhaps its most smoothly consumable record. [Nov-Dec 2013, p.97]
  7. Magnet
    Sep 19, 2013
    70
    There's something about the sixth full-length from this Icelandic experimental electronic outfit that feels like exciting new territory--and something about it that feels like home. [No. 102, p.58]
  8. Sep 17, 2013
    70
    Thematically, Múm return to contrasting innocence and danger.
  9. Sep 4, 2013
    70
    It may well be Múm’s most balanced, enjoyable record yet.
  10. Sep 3, 2013
    70
    Smilewound requires something of an adjustment of expectations.

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