Album Review: Múm—'Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know'

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This is electronica as it should be – instinctual, experimental, open, honest and uplifting, with piano, dulcimer, strings, marimbas and ukuleles. Full of yearning, this fifth studio album by Icelandic group Múm reflects the natural open spaces in which it was composed. This is a kind of “Teletubbies for the soul”, with a childlike innocence suffused throughout. It’s quirky without distortion or incoherence, revealing a lightness of touch and a soulful, melancholic aching. ‘Húllabbalabbalúlú’ speaks of the kings and knights of Avalon, while ‘Prophecies and Reversed Memories’ of a yearning from “long, long ago”. Excellent and dreamy.