The Peel Sessions, by múm

The Peel Sessions

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1.	Scratched Bicycle_ Smell Memory 05:23	buy track
2.	Awake On a Train 07:58	buy track
3.	Now There Is That Fear Again 03:57	buy track
4.	The Ballad of the Broken String 03:56	buy track

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December 4th 2012 saw 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.

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