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Múm

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Múm is an Icelander band formed by Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Póreyjarson Smárason, twins Gyða e Kristin Anna Valtýsdóttir. Their innovative sound made of suffused vocals and a variety of unconventional instruments brought them to be European Synth-pop icons.

Their debut album Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK was released in 2000 for the Icelander label TMT/Thule. the album was written and recorded when the band’s members were still teenagers but despite their young age, they were able to create an extensively arranged record that evoked emotions ranging from pain to glory.

2002 saw the release of Finally We Are No One. The tracks composing the new album were created during a band’s retreat at the Galtarviti lighthouse. Gunnar himself explained the choice of the unusual recording location: «You perceive time differently there… it’s far from everything. you have to work for everything you need». Gyða left the band shortly after the release of their second album and in 2004 followed Summer Make Good, which was accompanied by artistic materials.

In 2005 they collaborated with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra for a song by composer Iannis Xenakis which they brought on the Holland Festival stage in Amsterdam. Two years later, Múm (in the meantimecomposed of only Tynes and Smárason) collaborated with violinist and singer Ólöf Arnalds and multiinstrumentalist Mr. Silla onGo Go Smear the Poison Ivy.

After traveling between Finland, Estonia, and their native Iceland to record Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know (2009), Múm waited four years before publishing a new album. In 2013 the single “Whistle” with Australian singer Kylie Minogue preceded the release of their sixth project Smilewound, which saw the return of Gyða Valtýsdóttir in the band’s line-up. The tour in support of the album brought them to Italy for a few intense and exciting dates, like one at the Circolo Arci Magnolia in Milan and the one at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. In 2019 to celebrate twenty years since the release of their debut album, Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK was re-released and the band embarked on a European and Chinese tour.

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