Mum Coming to Walker Arts Center - Thursday, Oct 29

I am so going to this show. Love me some Mum.

“Múm quietly, irresistibly, inhabits a no-band’s land between the ancient and imminent, the organic and electronic, the head and feet.” —Rolling Stone

With its murmured vocals, eccentric beats, and dreamy effects, the Icelandic folktronica collective Múm (pronounced “moom”) comes to the Walker Art Center for its first Minnesota appearance in seven years to create a sonic netherworld where the ethereal joins the electronic. The seven-member Múm achieves its idiosyncratic sound—a glistening chamber pop that is equally eclectic, charming, and mesmerizing—by employing “a melodica, a harmonium, and two PowerBooks, piling sweet textures onto modernist crackles, like Belle and Sebastian at play in a Mac store” (New York Times). Opening the evening is Sin Fang Bous, which features members of Múm and Sindri Már Sigfússon of the Icelandic band Seabear. Múm and Sin Fang Bous perform on Thursday, October 29, at 8 pm in the William and Nadine McGuire Theater. Copresented with the Cedar Cultural Center.

Tickets to Múm and Sin Fang Bous are $18 ($15 Walker members) and are available at walkerart.org/tickets or by calling 612.375.7600. The Balcony Bar will be open at 7 pm and after the performance.