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Múm
- Dusk Log
Release
Date: 6th September 2004
Label: Fat Cat
Cat. No. - CD10FAT03 / 10FAT03
Format: Ten inch vinyl / Three inch CD
Distribution: Vital
Website: www.randomsummer.com / www.fat-cat.co.uk
Following
their recent album - 'Summer Make Good' - and full European
tour, Iceland's múm return with a brand new EP, 'Dusk
Log' - available on 10" vinyl and in special 3"
CD packaging. Besides the track, 'Will The Summer Make Good
For All Of Our Sins' (lifted from the album), the EP also
contains three new, previously unreleased tracks. 'Dusk Log'
opens with the rich and upbeat opening track, 'Kostrzyn' -
a sprawling instrumental favourite from the band's recent
live tour. This is followed by 'This Nothing In The Faraway'
- a langorous music box roll through gorgeous textural details,
ghostly harmonica and drifting clouds of warm breath. One
of the stand-out tracks from the album, 'Will The Summer Make
Good For All Of Our Sins' is a haunting and slow-bubbling
jewel of a track with the prettiness of Kristin's vocal relating
a dark and murky narrative. A video for this track has been
made by Studio AKA's BAFTA-winning director, Marc Craste.
Both impressive and unsettling, the video switches from writhing
maggots to a surreal bloated body drifting through numerous
enchanting and eye-catching landscapes. Studio AKA's team
of animators used a mix of live action, photographed images
and 3D animation.
Like
'Summer Make Good', 'Dusk Log' seems drenched in a mood /
atmosphere that bears witness to the Spartan, isolated environments
it was created within. Originally written in a remote lighthouse
in Galtarviti in the north-west of Iceland, the album was
then recorded over a period of seven weeks in an empty weather
station / light-keeper's house beneath the circling beams
of another lighthouse in Gardskagatá, at the south-west
edge of the same country. Both were spartan, magical locations
- isolated and surrounded by open seas and rugged landscape.
múm
now revolves around the core trio of Gunnar Örn Tynes,
Örvar Thóreyjarson Smárason and Kristín
Anna Valtysdóttir. Seamlessly blending live instrumentation
and electronic / programmed elements, múm's sound is
modern / forward thinking, yet simultaneously imbued with
a sense of (particularly Icelandic or European) folk tradition.
A complete, immensely detailed album that rewards the listener
with repeated listens, 'Summer Make Good' contains some of
múm's strongest songs yet, framed in a more expansive,
dramatic setting.
Tracklisting:
1 Kostrzyn
2 This Nothing In The Faraway
3 Will The Summer Make Good For All Of Our Sins
4 Boots Of Fog
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