- Audio CD (Sep 28 2011)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sonic Unyon Records
- ASIN: B0001IN0QM
- In-Print Editions: LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #217,240 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. With Hopes Lost |
| 2. Around Here |
| 3. Where You Wonder |
| 4. Iceland |
| 5. Why |
| 6. And The Sky Lay Still |
| 7. Sleep With Dried Up Tears |
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This review is from: Stand With The Stillness Of This Da (Audio CD)
Why are Icelandic musicans so creative? With the exception of Beastie Boy-ripoffs Quarashi, musicians in Iceland just seem to do things right. From Sigur Ros to Bjork to Mum, they just know how to invoke emotions hidden deep inside like no other. Maybe it's because of the cold, sterile nature of their surroundings they feel a need to explore and communicate through the warmth of emotive, intelligent music. Or maybe there's just something in the water over there. Either way, Mum's new album Summer Make Good is a gorgeous voyage through the oceans of serenity.Summer Make Good opens with "Hu Viss - A Ship" and "Weeping Rock, Rock," a song reminscent of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven and sets the pace for rest of the album-ominous and brooding yet offering a small ray of light. This anchor of hope is provided by Kristin Anna Valtysdottir's tender vocals moving in and out like small waves of tranquility while treacherous floods capsize you to the ocean floor. It's no coincidence these songs sound more like melancholic water lullabies than the jubilant ditties found on Finally We Are One and Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Was Ok. The songs were written in a remote lighthouse in Galtarviti and then recorded in an empty weather station and a lightkeeper's cabin below another lighthouse. Sounds from these eerie locations are dispersed throughout Summer Make Good creating a level of natural atmospheric bliss amongst spectral electronics. While Valtysdottir does sing in English, like fellow Icelandic musicians, Jonsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros and Bjork, there is no need to know what is actually being said. The vocals are used more as an instrument than as a poetic device. Emotions are evoked without any sad tales of broken hearts and slashed wrists-just soft whispers spoken in the most innocent, delicate soprano voice. Summer Make Good will most definitely be on most music critics' 2004 year end top ten lists. Yes, this is a bold statement with it being only mid-March, but unless John Lennon wakes from his permanent slumber and records The White Album Part Deux, there is no way an album as captivating and brilliant as Mum's Summer Make Good will be released in the near or even distant future.
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