Track Listing 1. Blessed Brambles 2. Little Bit, Sometimes, A 3. They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Explode 4. These Eyes Are Berries 5. Moon Pulls 6. Marmalade Fires 7. Rhuubarbidoo 8. Dancing Behind My Eyelids 9. School Song Misfortune 10. I Was Her Horse 11. Guilty Rocks 12. Winter (What We Never Were After All)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 44 min. | | Distributor: | Caroline Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes More than three years after 2004's SUMMER MAKE GOOD, Mum finally unveiled its fourth studio album, GO GO SMEAR THE POISON IVY. Whittled down to the core duo of Gunnar Orn Tynes and Orvar Poreyjarson Smarason (founding member Kristin Anna Valtysdottir departed in '06), but bolstered by five additional musicians, the Icelandic group furthers its warm, glitch-loving electronic sound by adding more acoustic instrumentation to the mix, as exemplified by the string-tinged "Blessed Brambles" and the chiming "These Eyes Are Berries." Often more engaging than SUMMER, this '07 outing finds Mum balancing singsong-like whimsy and literal bells and whistles with plenty of fascinating sonic experimentation (see the quirky "They Made the Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded"), resulting in their finest record since FINALLY WE ARE NO ONE.
Editorial Reviews It's full of twinkles, seesawing dynamics, calls and responses between live and programmed instruments and choruses sung in a ragtag unison of coos and snarls. Magnet
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