Múm - Will the Summer Make Good for all of Our Sins?

I think I have just enough "summer songs" left to squeeze out another week. Some of these songs involved summer activities, summer mindsets, summer memories, and summer love (often fleeting.).Others gave no indication of what season it was, but purely sounded like summer: bright, bouncy, and undeniably fun. Others just had Summer in the title. Today's entry is one for that last category.

If you're looking for a song to throw on a mix for the drive down to the beach, this isn't it. This song is more suitable soundtrack for stabbing yourself through the heart with an icicle. The song is atmospheric, cold, despairing and kind of creepy. It's the type of song you can feel throughout your entire body when listening. Really affecting stuff. Not surprisingly, Múm are from Iceland, land of beautiful scenery, incredible music and very attractive people.

Múm - Will the Summer Make Good for all of Our Sins

"please don't cry for hammer in your teeth
we'll spoil the pretty snow that lies beneath
who go cry for hammer in her teeth
we'll spoil her pretty face at least she feels real
no-go cry for hammer in your teeth
we'll spoil the pretty snow that never feels real

breathe, you breathe
believe you me tonight
breath in, breath out
make good, make float
bleed you me

please don't cry for hammer in your teeth
we'll spoil the pretty snow that lies beneath
and summer will make good for all of our sins
if we only wish it hard enough

breathe in, breathe out
who go who cry
believe you me
to night/mum night
breathe in, breathe out
make good, make float
bleed you me"

Now, when the song is combined with the video, it's bumped up to an even higher league. This is one of those incredibly rare cases where a directly perfectly captures the essence of a song and you just think, wow, how could that have been any better? For ease I'll put the youtube link below, however with the compression and size I feel that you lost a little of the effect when viewed there. I'm also linking to a much superior 40 meg .mov version, which is optimum. Watch that one.



http://www.lumeneclipse.org/05/Mum.mov

Mum - Summer Make Good @Amazon.com