Pitchfork

We've had some reservations about Icelandic band Múm's more song-oriented direction. "Fucking terrible idea," Nick Sylvester wrote in a review of 2004's Summer Make Good. On this advance track from the glitchy experimentalists' forthcoming fourth album, Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy, their warm-blanket electronics learn to coexist with a brief passage of drowsy boy-girl vocals. It's not quite "track", not quite "song", and it's free of the much-maligned singing of founding member Kristín Valtýsdóttir, who has left the group.

In other words, "Dancing Behind My Eyelids" sounds like a fucking good idea. Misty but welcoming electronic and acoustic elements drift for the first bit, soon joined by skittering beats and, eventually, distant bird calls. More than halfway through, two voices finally murmur about things dancing, on the horizon as well as (yep) behind their eyelids: "They sound like tap-dancing shoes." A cut-up percussion break bears this out, as the arrangement continues to build. And then dissolves before the IDM sumptuousness risks turning into a "proper" indie-pop song, like a dreamer snapping awake.

MP3:> Mum: "Dancing Behind My Eyelids"

[from Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy; due 9/25/07 on Fat Cat]