Mum - Peel Sessions

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=24747

Sounds great! Not sure if it is going to be just a few tracks like most of the Peel Sessions, or longer, but I'm looking forward to it regardless.

I think it's just 3 or 4 tracks. Old ones too. But mmm.

i decided recently upon revisting all their albums that they are one of my favourites bands/.

from the website:

December 4th sees the long-awaited release of múm’s only ever Peel session, recorded at Maida Vale Studios in 2002 for BBC Radio One’s infamous, revered, and fondly remembered John Peel show. The four tracks here (five if you include the amalgamation of the two songs on the opening track) are significantly different versions of songs that will be familiar to fans, yet fresh enough to warrant a widespread release of what amounts to a batch of stand-alone recordings by a young band at a creative peak. Before their line-up changed, before others tried to copy their sound, before anyone from America ever went to the Airwaves Festival, this is a document of a time we hold dear to our hearts.

Bridging the gap between their universally acclaimed debut ‘Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK’, and their more expansive, sonically detailed follow up ‘Finally We Are No One’, these tracks represent múm in transition from the warm naivety of ‘Yesterday…’ to a more sonically detailed approach, more commonly associated with their recent or current output. Curiously, it’s also a significant precursor to the bands new material, to be released Spring 2007, in tone if not execution. The band are now an expansive collective, blurring the distinction between live band and electronica.

Renowned for purveying an otherworldly, almost magical aura, múm manage to make experimental music that’s naturally, effortlessly imbued with a pop sensibility. Their sound is warm, gorgeously rich and melodic. Using an array of instruments (guitars, bass, drums, synths, laptops, cello, accordion, mutated brass, and musical saws to name a few) alongside crisply programmed electronic washes, beats and bleeps - their musical talent, whatever direction they choose to take, is immediately audible.

http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=213

i'm still holding out hope that their next album sports some of the heavier guitary/rockish moments from the summer make good tour.

i thought the last album was sublime.

summer make good is one of my favorite albums of the last 5 years. easily.

live, it was was the best show i've been to. ever. their execution was flawless.

their early stuff is classic, but for entirely different reasons. two totally different bands.

this is a one faggy thread

  awkward said:

i thought the last album was sublime.

It's their best. It's good live too, if not, better.

i hated the last album, loved the first two.

need more electronics, less elfish vocals

nah other way round. more accordians and saws and pianos and little icelandic girl vocals and less electronics.

I like a nice balance of the two, ala Finally We Are No One.

i think summer make good achieves more balance by making the electronics/edits sound more live.

mum you say, ..can they be more obvious?

  awkward said:

nah other way round. more accordians and saws and pianos and little icelandic girl vocals and less electronics.

I agree I like all of their stuff though, so I'll probably end up checking this out...