For Icelandophiles who semi-learned the phrases to Sigur Rós and Sin Fang information again within the day, the watch for Múm’s return has been lengthy sufficient. History of Silence, Múm’s first album in 12 years, nestles into the fibers of their longtime sound: whispered lyrics, gauzy strings, melodica, and percussive ambiance. Though their seventh studio album and follow-up to 2013’s Smilewound’s will get its title from lifeless air, Múm are full of life and current all through, be it the shimmering sounds of “Kill the Gentle” or the vividness of “Delicate at Coronary heart.” Recorded, deconstructed, reassembled, and refined over two years, Historical past of Silence is a humble comeback that savors each second.
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Kitba: Maintain the Edges [Ruination]
Kitba makes bedroom-pop music that harks again to a time earlier than “bedroom-pop” was actually a factor. On Maintain the Edges, the Brooklyn-based harpist and singer-songwriter, in any other case generally known as Rebecca El-Saleh, composes hall-of-mirrors synth ballads with the luxurious textures and sing-songy high quality of Frou Frou, their vocals, typically Auto-Tuned, a nervy mixture of the shellshocked and declarative. The mazy single “Soften,” one in all many breakup songs on the LP, is about “being offended lengthy after you’re feeling you need to be, questioning when your hardened coronary heart will soften,” they stated in press supplies. “It’s twisting inside and chaos, vibratingly vivid and tense.”
