Track Listing

1. Hu Hviss - A Ship
2. Weeping Rock, Rock
3. Nightly Cares
4. The Ghosts You Draw on My Back
5. Stir
6. Sing Me Out the Window
7. The Islands Children�s Children
8. Oh, How the Boats Drift
9. Small Deaths Are the Saddest
10. Will the Summer Make Good for All Our Sins?
11. Abandoned Ship Bells

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28103 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-12
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
'Summer Make Good' is the fourth album from Icelandic outfit Mum. Recorded in six weeks at two remote lighthouses in Iceland and released on London based label Fat Cat, the album continues with the band's own brand of ambient electronica while being given a warmer sound by utilising more analog equipment than on previous releases.

Customer Reviews

Beauty beyond words...
Just when we thought we had survived the emotional impact of "()" by Sigur Rós, fellow Icelandic quartet Múm return with a masterpiece of an album, "Summer Make Good" - an amazingly beautiful record soaked up in Icelandic soul, sadness and fragility. It's hard to single out a track here - as a matter of fact, the album flows so effortlessly that it feels like an extended late night lullaby. Truly indispensable.

And weeping - row, row
This limited edition copy of "Summer Make Good" comes with a 32-page hard-bound book with original art and writings made by the members of múm. The edition is supposed to be limited to 5000 copies worldwide. I don't think amazon uk will get as many as they have pre orders for currently (3000+).

The standard album is amazing, drawing out very deep emotions and vibrating to a crescendo which is difficult to describe. At times, it feels more folky than previous albums, but definitely feels like múm. The interlude-type tracks are more emotional and inspiring than those of Finally We Are No One. In the later tracks, it kind of seems as though they're aimlessly dabling around. However, at first I felt the same way about Finally..., then after growing into the early tracks, I came to love the depth of the later tracks, and even prefering them.

Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to acquire this limited edition version. (4.5 Stars)

truly zen
With its slow building ambience, old world influences pillaging a list of bizarre and ancient instruments too numerous to mention, and frail vocals, Múm has produced a truly zen CD. As epic as it is fragile, there's a touch of spaghetti-western-final-gun-battle score, over the top but in their own nice way quality to almost every track but cut with an Amelie softness. Most people's enjoyment of this band will no doubt depend on what effect the lead vocals have subjectively. To some, she may sound like a broken-winged angel pleading for God's help in line with a same Bjork dealing with Beth Gibbons' emotions, but to others she may just be a little too Elmo or Robin, Kermit's nephew, to break through to a new plane of depression and wonder. Or she could be both and that's why you like it. It's a musical yin and yang.