Smilewound

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共13首歌曲

艺人: múm
语种: 其他
厂牌: Morr Music
发行时间: 2013年09月06日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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虽再难呈现《Yesterday Was Dramatic– Today Is OK》的戏谑与音乐幻想，冰岛乐队Múm却得到了另外一种挣脱，新专辑《Smilewound》除了有原装女主音Gyða的回归助阵，还获得流行天后Kylie Minogue的加持。

走过两张群龙无首的试验专辑之后，新专辑《Smilewound》一方面倾向欧陆电音，另一方面也是第二代团员的成果验收。总体评价虽不如预期，不过像歌曲〈Toothwheels〉、〈Slow Down〉以及〈One Smile〉却不难找到乐队初始的贪玩性情，也全赖Gyða的美声回归。

专辑隐藏曲〈Whistle〉则是Kylie Minogue主演的电影《Jack and Diane》主题曲，不失为一次美丽的相遇，两者间的音韵原来颇为对味。

(boyethan@破报)

Icelandic pop oddities Múm have announced their return, with a new album titled Smilewound set to arrive September 17 via Morr Music.

Despite issuing the rarities collection Early Birds in 2012, this is the first proper studio from the band since 2009s Sing Along to Songs You Dont Know. It was recorded and self-produced at Múms Baltic farmhouse studio.

Described in a press release as &an airy, relaxed record,& Smilewound finds members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárasoneing rejoined by fellow band founder Gyða Valtýsdóttir, who had left the group after the release of 2002s Finally We Are No One.

The constantly rotating membership of múm has made it difficult for fans to anticipate what a múm record should sound like. On 2009’s Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know, it became apparent that the band’s current interest lay more in weirdo pop music than the abstract sound experiments of their early albums.

Smilewound, their sixth studio album, reinforces that more traditional pop structures surely here to stay, but you still couldn’t call them a pop band. Not even featuring Kylie Minogue on a song can turn them into a pop band (see last year’s ‘Whistle’ as evidence; it’s the bonus track on Smilewound).

The glitchy rhythm of ‘Candlestick’, for example, balances out a warm, smooth chorus about wanting to bash someone over the head.

Even if more conventional song elements like choruses and clearly audible vocals have found their way into múm’s work, they are still far from predictable. For starters, who would have anticipated the return of founding member Gyða, last seen on their debut, Yesterday Was Dramatic — Today Is OK? Her vocals (which closely resemble those of her twin sister, former lead vocalist Kristin Anna/Kria Brekkan) feature on several songs, whereas male vocals are noticeably absent on the whole. But the return of a founding member hasn’t signaled the return of what the band was ten years ago.

There are shades their more atmospheric, freeform songs. Instrumental ‘Eternity Is The Wait Between Breaths’ could easily fit into their back catalogue, while the presence of warped sounding strings across the album is an excellent example of the textures the band has always been capable of creating. And the breathy, brief vocals of ‘One Smile’ is a beautiful example of using a voice as an instrument.

múm have always been a challenging listen, and on the heels of last year’s compilation, Early Birds it seems the challenge might be accepting something more structured. Smilewound requires something of an adjustment of expectations. But don’t get too comfortable; they’ll undoubtedly throw us for a loop with their next album.

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