Múm Tours In Support of New Album

It has been more than three years since the release of múm's last album Summer Make Good, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge. And now, finally, múm return with their long-awaited new album, strangely titled Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy and a string of fall tour dates supporting the release - including two Wordless Music Series performances in New York City. This latest effort is a colorful, twitching, playful work of art, full of life-affirming energy.

In the three years since the last full-length offering, múm has not slept more than thought to be normal. After Summer Make Good, they toured extensively in Europe, the US and Asia and in 2005 they were invited to Amsterdam by the Holland Festival to collaborate with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra to create a performance piece based around various compositions of the late avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis for one of the centre piece shows at the festival. Shortly after that the lines were starting to form around the new album.

With the departure of Kristín Valty´sdóttir at the beginning of the creative process, the core of múm is again down to the original duo of founding members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar óreyjarson Smárason, but the band itself is now larger than ever, counting in all seven people. The album was recorded at a variety of locations, including the music school in the small fishing town of Ísafjörur in the west fjords of Iceland, where the band made use of the school's various instruments. The songs on this multifarious album were conceived over a long period in many a different fashion, with one song even dating back to the period of Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK.

"Mum quietly, irresistibly, inhabit a no-band's land between the ancient and imminent, the organic and electronic, the head and feet." - Rolling Stone

múm tour
Oct 23 2007 Belly Up Tavern // Solana Beach, California
Oct 24 2007 Orpheum Theater // Los Angeles, California
Oct 25 2007 The Grand // San Francisco, California
Oct 26 2007 Crystal Ballroom // Portland, Oregon
Oct 27 2007 Neumo's // Seattle, Washington
Oct 30 2007 Gothic Theater // Englewood, Colorado
Oct 31 2007 Granada Theater // Lawrence, Kansas
Nov 01 2007 Logan Square Auditorium // Chicago, Illinois
Nov 02 2007 Opera House // Toronto
Nov 03 2007 Théâtre National // Montreal
Nov 04 2007 Somerville Theater // Somerville, Massachusetts
Nov 06 2007 Roxy Theater // Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 07 2007 Sixth & I Synagogue // Washington DC
Nov 08 2007 Theater of the Living Arts // Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 09 2007 The Church of St. Paul the Apostle // NYC [Wordless Music Series]
Nov 10 2007 Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall // NYC [Wordless Music Series]