Icelandic Music Experience: Múm

Iceland. An island with not much sunshine on it. On the surface is very cold country on the surface but underneath bubbling heat surfacing outside. Iceland is a land of creative people, talented and sometimes depressive, even suicidal. Today more than ever, after the country's economic collapse.

Environmental conditions affect Iceland's fertile musical creativity of singers like Bjork, Sigur Ros and many others, but while those minister to the public, Mum deformed band members prefer to stay inside their igloo so to speak, wrapped in intimacy. Singing together and for each other. Perhaps for you, too.

Beside the fact that Múm are gifted and diverse musicians, the seven members of Mum are introvert children with a tendency for autism. The boys Choir from a school in Reykjavik playing, with a classical musical training and gentle sound, whispers, often chilling, like inviting you to listen to them and watch them play with their toys: harmonica, miniature guitars and whistles.

Mum are not great rock band nor gifted performers. Their music is fueled by nuances, childlike ideas and the variety of instruments they use. It is the nuances that make them interesting and unique. Beside that it is up to you to judge.

This is a clip from Mum's latest album "Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know"