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Sep 17, 2013Thematically, Múm return to contrasting innocence and danger.
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Sep 9, 2013It's remarkable that an album with so much fast, dynamic percussion still has such a lugubrious pace, which makes all the sharp details drift by in an indistinct mass.
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UncutSep 3, 2013Smilewound finds the woolly jumpered collective coasting through another set of impressionistic glitch-pop and clockwork exotica. [Sep 2013, p.92]
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Sep 17, 2013Smilewound 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.
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MojoSep 19, 2013Pared-down twinkly electronic pop with arcane instruments alloyed to laptop smarts that chills as it enchants. [Oct 2013, p.98]
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014There's still the odd detour into eerie atmospherics, but essentially this is electronica for people who fine The Knife hard going, with recent Kylie collaboration, Whistle, providing a final dusting of pop sugar. [Oct 2013, p.106]
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Sep 4, 2013It may well be Múm’s most balanced, enjoyable record yet.
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Under The RadarDec 4, 2013Smilewound is a notably more pop effort from this hard-forecast group, and perhaps its most smoothly consumable record. [Nov-Dec 2013, p.97]
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Sep 3, 2013Smilewound requires something of an adjustment of expectations.
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Sep 12, 2013Smilewound’s gleeful, weird-pop eclecticism builds up the goodwill to cover any lull.
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Sep 3, 2013Smilewound is delicate, crunchy and as beautiful as the fountainhead of music whence it came.
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Sep 3, 2013The album is easily Múm's most commercial to date.
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MagnetSep 19, 2013There'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]
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Sep 27, 2013The timbre or the texture of the sounds they make is worth noting while working through Smilewound, but hardly worth returning specifically for.
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Nov 18, 2013They are trying too hard for precocious-ness, not enough for worn-in beauty.
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Sep 16, 2013Smilewound traipses all over the place, sometimes tripping as it finds it’s path. But when it does, it surges with moments of delicate finesse and threatening omnission.