Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know

Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know is the fifth full-length studio album by Icelandic group múm, released in August 2009.

Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know
Studio album by múm
Released	17 August 2009 (2009-08-17)
Genre	Electronic
Length	49:07
Label	Morr Music Euphono[1]
Múm chronology
Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (2007) Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know (2009) Smilewound (2013)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	62/100 [2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
BBC Music	(average)[4]
The Guardian	[5]
The Observer	(favourable)[6]
Pitchfork Media	(3.9/10)[7]
The Times	[8]

The album was first made available to purchase for download on 17 August 2009, through the web site Gogoyoko, with 10 percent of the proceeds being donated to the non-governmental organisation Refugees United.^[1] The full European release followed on 24 August, and the North American on 22 September.^[9][10]

As indicated by the title, some of the album's songs partly and informally rework melodies and lyrics from known pop songs. Thus, "If I Were a Fish" includes references to the Tim Hardin song "If I Were a Carpenter" and "Sing Along" includes a melody from "The World Laughs On", a song by Danish musician Otto Brandenburg, popularized in an Icelandic version in 1960 entitled "Ég er kominn heim", performed by Óðinn Valdimarsson.

Track listing

1. "If I Were a Fish" – 4:16
2. "Sing Along" – 5:39
3. "Prophecies and Reversed Memories" – 4:06
4. "A River Don't Stop to Breathe" – 4:45
5. "The Smell of Today Is Sweet Like Breastmilk in the Wind" – 4:47
6. "Show Me" – 3:45
7. "Húllabbalabbalúú" – 3:27
8. "Blow Your Nose" – 4:07
9. "Kay-Ray-Kú-Kú-Kó-Kex" – 3:57
10. "The Last Shapes of Never" – 2:27
11. "Illuminated" – 4:09
12. "Ladies of the New Century" – 3:45

References

1. "gogoyoko - Fair play in music". Gogoyoko. Archived from the original on 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
2. "Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know by Mum". Metacritic.
3. Phares, Heather. "Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
4. Diver, Mike (24 August 2009). "Review of múm - Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know". BBC Music. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
5. Dean, Will (21 August 2009). "múm: Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
6. Carter, Imogen (23 August 2009). "Múm: Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know". The Observer. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
7. Pitchfork Media review
8. Clay, Joe (22 August 2009). "Múm: Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know". The Times. Retrieved 2009-08-22.^{[dead link]}
9. "múm » Blog Archive » SIng Along to Songs You Don't Know out in Europe Today!!!". mum.is. 2009-08-24. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
10. "múm » Blog Archive » Our new album world wide exclusive on gogoyoko.com". mum.is. 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-08-19.