múm (pronounced [muːm], “moom”) is an experimental electronic group from Ic… Read Full Bio ↴múm (pronounced [muːm], “moom”) is an experimental electronic group from Iceland whose music is characterized by soft vocals, eccentric beats and colorful effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.

Originally a duo, the band has expanded and contracted in the 12 years of being and has counted 15 - 20 people along the way.

The band was formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, their first release was a split 10" with the girl-band Spúnk and saw light in the summer of '98. They were joined a year later by twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir and released two albums as quartet. Following a number of collaborative projects, the group’s celebrated debut album Yesterday was dramatic - today is OK (reissued by Morr Music in October 2005) gained a wealth of glowing press and widespread praise. A remix project, Please Smile My Noise Bleed, also released on the Morr Music label in November 2001.

In 2002, after the release of Finally We Are No One and the extensive first world tour, Gyða left the band to return to her studies in Reykjavík. Shortly after, the third sister Ásthildur Valtýsdóttir joined for singing duties temporarily and Serena Tideman replaced Gyða on cello, for a single European tour. The band's third album, Summer Make Good, a darker and foggier, nautically themed work was released in May 2004, flanked by two singles, Nightly Cares and Dusk Log. By then the ensemble had evolved to include Eiríkur Ólafsson and Hildur Guðnadóttir (who had guest appearances on múm recordings from the beginning) and Ólöf Arnalds. In early 2006, Kristín also left the band after releasing and heavily touring the album Summer Make Good.

The start of 2006 saw the band's creativity start to blossom once again, starting with two remixes Goldfrapp of the tracks ‘Number 1’ and ‘You Never Know’. They followed this with two legendary DJ sets at the FatCat Festival in Belgium in February and SXSW in Austin Texas 2007. With a combination of decks, effects, laptops, toy microphones, old cassette player recordings and vocals, coupled with their own recorded material, strange electronic covers by friends, gypsy folk music and general craziness on stage. They were also subsequently invited DJ at Summer Sonic Festival in Japan as well as be headline act as DJ's in Radio 1’s Rob Da Bank tent at Bestival on the Isle of Wight. In september 2007 múm released Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy which turned out to be the bands last release for the Fatcat Records.

múm has always worked on projects which could be classed as unusual for a pop band or a pop collective. Among their extra curricular activity is their own soundtrack for the classic Sergei Eisenstein film, 'Battleship Potemkin', live performances of which have taken place in Hafnafjordur Iceland, Brooklyn Lyceum New York, and at the distinguished Gijon Film Festival Spain. múm have also composed for theater, most notably two radio theater plays, 'Svefnhjólið' (Sleeping Wheel) by Gyrdir Eliasson which won the Nordic Radio-theater prize and in 2008 Augu þín sáu mig (Your eyes saw me) by poet Sjón (which múm also worked with in 1999 on the operetta Kisa (cat). In 2005 they were invited to Amsterdam by the Holland Festival to collaborate with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra to create a performance piece based around various compositions of the late avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis for one of the centre piece shows at the festival.

múm released their fifth studio album, Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know, in August 2009. The collective now consists of founding members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason and for touring and recording, this line-up is expanded to include their friends Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (trumpet / piano/ keyboards), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello / vocals), Sigurlaug Gísladóttir (Vocals / ukulele/ various), Róbert Reynisson (guitars/ukulele's) and the Finnish Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion). The musical group sometimes extends to Ólöf Arnalds, Högni Egilsson, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson and Guðbjörg Hlín Guðmundsdóttir as well as a never ending family of friends and musicians who may join at the drop of a hat.

Official website: http://www.mum.is

Moon Pulls
múm Lyrics

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Feel the moon pull your love
Faster up to the sky

Feel the moon pull your love
Faster up to the sky, the sky

Feel the moon pull your love
Faster up to the sky, the sky

Feel the moon pull your love
Faster up to the sky, the sky

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of múm's song "Moon Pulls" have a dream-like quality that draws the listener into a world where the gravitational pull of the moon has the power to accelerate love up towards the sky. The repetition of the phrase "Feel the moon pull your love / Faster up to the sky" creates a sense of urgency and inevitability, as if the moon's influence on love cannot be resisted.

In many cultures, the moon is associated with romance and fertility, and the lyrics of "Moon Pulls" evoke these associations. The idea of love being pulled up towards the moon suggests a mystical, almost supernatural force at work. At the same time, the lyrics can be interpreted as a metaphor for the power of love itself - how it can elevate us and take us to new heights.

Line by Line Meaning

Feel the moon pull your love
Experience the magnetic attraction of the moon's gravitational pull towards your affection.

Faster up to the sky
Accelerating upwards, disappearing from sight and merging with the vastness of the atmosphere.

The sky
Endless expanse above us which symbolizes openness, freedom and transcendence.

Feel the moon pull your love
Surrender yourself to the enticing, mystical nature of the moon's persuasive pull on your emotions.

Faster up to the sky, the sky
Losing yourself in your feelings and surrendering to the pull of the moon until you become a part of its enchanting essence and lose all sense of physical boundaries.

Feel the moon pull your love
An invitation to tune into the primal instincts governing the natural world, and let the moon guide your emotions.

Faster up to the sky, the sky
A metaphor for escaping reality as we know it, and being consumed by the otherworldly realm of the unknown beyond our horizons.

Feel the moon pull your love
Experiencing a sense of transcendence and spiritual union with the universe that allows you to reach new emotional heights.

Faster up to the sky, the sky
Reaching a state where your emotions are free, liberated from the confines of time and space, soaring towards the unknown with complete trust in the universe.

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