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a r t i s t :: Mum
t i t l e :: Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
d a t e :: 2001-03-00
l a b e l :: TMT Entertainment
g e n r e :: Electronic
s o u r c e :: CD
b i t r a t e :: 649 kbps avg
e n c o d e r :: FLAC 1.2.1 -8
t r a c k s :: 10
p l a y t i m e :: 67:33
s i z e :: 317.71MB
tracklist
1 I'm 9 Today 4:42
2 Smell Memory 9:21
3 There Is A Number Of Small Things 6:31
4 Random Summer 3:17
5 Asleep On A Train 7:17
6 Awake On A Train 9:23
7 The Ballad Of The Broken Birdie 5:25
Records
8 The Ballad Of The Broken String 4:45
9 Sunday Night Just Keeps On Rolling 8:11
10 Slow Bicycle 8:41
releasenotes
See, in a just world, Mum would headline All Tomorrow's Parties forever. For
here is a band who are the musical and aesthetic quintessence of that scene, a
bleeping, chattering, glitch-spattered mix of impossibly cute melodies and
experimental cool. A Belle & Sebastian with computers, who will, no doubt,
whip winsome boys and girls into a similar, quiet, frenzy.
Thankfully, while Mum's spiritual roots may lie in the whimsy of C86, they've
supplanted the usual straight-up amateurism with a calculated, and more
mature, desire to leaven and warp their sweet pop. 'Awake On A Train' spends
several minutes twinkling like Bacharach, before interference breaks out like
a virus. And much better it is for it too. A spoonful of medicine helps the
sugar go down, and there's a real, otherworldly beauty to the Plaid-ish likes
of 'Smell Memory', basically harpsichord sizzling on a hotplate, and 'Sunday
Night Just Keeps On Rolling', a choked-up, melancholy mix of warm, pastoral
melodies, crunchy beats and static.
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Mum-Yesterday_Was_Dramatic_-_Today_Is_OK-(TMT02CD)-CD-FLAC-2001-k4