mum?

what is the general mood of their music?

forgive me, I really do not know what B&S sound like.(I have not followed indy since the mid-90s)

leagues better than any boards of canada i've ever heard

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Whoah, that would about make them the best band ever. :)

I have an album by *a* Mum, but not this Mum. It's not very good, but it was very cheap.

i saw mum in st petersburg and they were lovely. the singing worked much better, the music was more interesting (although maybe its cos the girls are well cute - chauvenist pig stylee.......hehehe). well anyway it was worth it. their equipment broke down and the had only played 3 songs tho. bit of a bummer seeing as they had come from iceland n all. spoke to the main guy tho and he seemed like a bit of a wanker. i asked him if he ever fancied playing sheffield then we would be up for putting them on and he was like, 'oh we played at the shepherds bush empire with mogwai last week, so fuck off and take yr pissy little grapes with you, no hoper'. he didnt say the last bit but thats what inference is all about , eh?

Rich

this is pretty!

dear god i despise this band

Which album are you listening to, Surmounter?

summer make good

I love Summer Make Good.

I think I need to make a compilation of their remixes for other people.

Recommend anything Mum-like? The sound of howling winds and the sea would be a bonus . . .

Isan

speaking of whom, there's a nice isan mix at arctic circle (jointhecircle.net)

Isan doesn't sound like summer make good though.

aye, it is a summer make good ambience i'm after.

it possibly doesn't warrant a new thread, so i'll just tag it on here:

i do like the album leaf's a chorus of storytellers.

in the mood for a new mum album, darker than the last one.

Did anyone know about this? mum working with Kylie. It's pretty good.

https://soundcloud.com/kanew/kylie-whistle-feat-m-m

Whistle appears on the new Mum album albeit credited to "the artist professionally known as Kylie featuring Mum".

Shockingly bad promo video - I recommend never watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YzmcW8ZwWc

https://gyda.bandcamp.com/

New Mum album soon and, separately, new Hildur Gudnadottir album too.

(Though yet to find them on sale at reasonable prices in the UK).

I bought Finally We Are Noone when it came out way back in 2002 because I was going through a Herman's Hermits appreciation phase at the time. Despite my disappointment I could still appreciate the album on its own merits. If I had been on Ilxor at the time I would have leapt to the band's defence. It's moom, isn't it? You're supposed to say moom. Moom. Moom. I want you to say it with me. Moom. Move those lips. Now we are having a moment. Moom. In a few days I will visit the United Nations.

Do you know how I found out about Mum in those pre-Youtube days? John Peel, the answer is John Peel:
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/M%C3%BAm

"Green Grass of Tunnel" was number 48 on the 2002 Festive Fifty. Unfortunately John Peel stopped doing the Festive Fifty because he died. He was born in 1939 so he would probably have died if he hadn't died.

Finally We Are Etc was, from what I remember, the band's cough mainstream breakout, e.g. there was a pop music video for one of the tracks. The one with the flying lighthouse. The track that tipped it over the edge for me was "Don't Be Afraid", because it has a nice bouncy melody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTpkJ9gZjQs

Sadly it runs out of steam before it ends but it's a nice track nonetheless. I can see why some people might despise them. They're Icelandic, which is hot. The album was recorded in a cabin or a lighthouse or whatever. The band sings in an imaginary language that sounds just like English and has English words and grammar. The band is compressed, purified whiteness but in a nice way. When they play Scrabble they exclusively use short words such as VEX and QI and NIX and they play robotically. No cats.

Ilxor: where (a) Belle and Sebastian still exists and (b) Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant is "the last B&S album".

green grass of tunnel appeared the other day on a old playlist, still moved me