Po kilkuletniej przerwie powraca z nowym albumem niezwykle lubiana u nas formacja MUM.
Islandczycy mają już u nas ugruntowaną pozycję i liczne grono polskich fanów. Sensacyjnie i powalająco brzmi na nowym wydawnictwie wokalny udzial KYLIE MINOGUE w utworze “Whistle”!! “Smilewound” jako calość jawi się na tle dotychczasowych dokonań grupy jako dzieło najbardziej popowe i nasycone elektroniką, które to elementy doskonale ubarwiają odrealniony, folkowo – baśniowy klimat znany z poprzednich płyt. „Smilewound” można śmiało postawić w jednym rzędzie z czołowymi dokonaniami MUM jak choćby „Finally We Are No One”, „Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is OK” czy „Sing Along..”.


You don't need to be Freud to regard teeth as a delicate issue. They can make joy look joyous and pain look painful, and on the cover of the new múm album they do both at the same time. As "Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is Okay" (2001), "Finally We Are No One" (2002) and "Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know" (2009) "Smilewound" is another example of the band's art of juxtaposing two conflicting meanings and taking advantage of the energy created through the tension between both.

Sparser in sound than many of its predecessors, "Smilewound" is an airy, relaxed record. The múm-core-duo of Örvar and Gunni doesn't make you laugh out loud (except maybe for the quirky vintage Arcade-sound-start of "When Girls Collide"), but it will make you smile often - despite the heavenly voices singing about violence in one form or another in most songs. Musically, múm's capability to build playful electronic sound-ornaments around simple melodies is in full bloom. And these days they know that trimming the ornamentation can strengthen the melody. Take "The Colorful Stabwound": an aguish drum'n'bass piece and"Smilewound" gets close to a straight pop-song. Even that isn't very close, but it combines.......
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