Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?

Vice UK
"This is like the biggest album ever in Iceland."

Product Description
Mugison (pronounced Moogieson) is a one-man band from Iceland. He plays abstract psychedelic melodies inter-twined with heart-wrenching lyrics and has been compared to Tom Waits, Beck, and Will Oldham. Find out what the Album Of The Year sounds like in a land that has spawned both Sigur Ros and Bjork.

Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?

Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?,Mugison,Ipecac Recordings,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?

Average customer rating: It's OK Tom Waits & Beck have a love child Music at its earthiness... amazing/strange/beautiful/insane album It Really Got to Me, But It Took Awhile

Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music? Mugison Manufacturer: Ipecac Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Little Trip Crazy Price Takk... Lonely Mountain Tango Saloon ASIN: B000AP2ZKS Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

1. I Want You
2. The Chicken Song
3. Never Give Up
4. 2 Birds
5. What I Would Say in Your Funeral
6. Sad as a Truck
7. Swing Ding
8. I'd Ask
9. Murr Murr
10. Salt
11. Hold On 2 Happiness
12. Afi Minn

Album Description

Mugison (pronounced Moogieson) is a one-man band from Iceland. He plays abstract psychedelic melodies inter-twined with heart-wrenching lyrics and has been compared to Tom Waits, Beck, and Will Oldham. Find out what the Album Of The Year sounds like in a land that has spawned both Sigur Ros and Bjork.

Customer Reviews:

It's OK.......2006-11-23

This CD sounds all right... But people seem to think a bit too much of it merely because it was made by someone from Iceland, "where Bjork and Sigur Ros come from." It's an admixture of folk-pop and avant-garde or experimental material. The "earnest" vocals in the folk-pop songs bring to mind Iron and Wine or some acoustic version of Coldplay -- perhaps too much for my comfort. The experimental material doesn't really resemble or live up to Beck's adept creative twists, as some reviewers have suggested, and it didn't grab me. I just didn't find it that challenging or compelling. In all, the mixture of material didn't hang together that well for me.

Tom Waits & Beck have a love child.......2006-05-21

If Tom Waits & Beck attended a bbq at Gibby Haynes house I believe this album would be the results if you recorded the event. By turns beautiful, clattering and silly this album has leapt to the top of my rotation. It is not for the consumer that wants musical wallpaper.

Music at its earthiness..........2006-03-26

Gutteral and carnal at times (a la Tom Waits), sweet as pie at others (a la Damien Rice), and sometimes a combo of the two. Decidedly original, decidedly beautiful (though not for everyone).

amazing/strange/beautiful/insane album.......2006-03-23

Mugison makes the most interesting, strange, and beautiful music I've heard in a long time. This album is a great example of that. "Mugimama..." is an extremely varied album. Just when you think he might be completely insane, he says something genius that pops everything into perspective again, it's a great balance. I've found over the past few weeks that it's really difficult to describe this album to people, because it is so varied, but I've come up with this description that may help someone who is thinking of purchasing it... If you took the pop sensibilities of Badly Drawn Boy, the style-jumping of Beck, the experimentalism of Tom Waits, just for good measure, occasionally throw in the quite restraint of Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and also toss in someone from an insane asylum (one of those people that pretty crazy, but in kind of a cool and enduring way), and there you have it...Mugison. And if you are not familiar with any of the people just mentioned, then you have some catching up to do.

This album will make you laugh, cry, cringe, and dance, all at the same time. Some standout tracks include: "murr murr," a great song with a driving rootsy guitar riff that's both modern rock and delta blues. "salt," a heartbreakingly beautiful piece that is spoken word over some really nice music. "2 birds," a slow-paced contemplative song. "I'd ask," "the Chicken Song," "What I Would Say In Your Funeral,"...I just realized I'm going to have to list almost all of them as standout tracks. I could've done without the 30 second track of him belching, but I forgive him for it. It's like when baby vomits on you, you don't really enjoy it, but you don't hold it against the baby, because the baby is just so damn cute.

It Really Got to Me, But It Took Awhile.......2006-01-31

I didn't like this "music" at all at first. But a good friend gave it to me, so I kept trying, and gradually, bits of it starting sticking, until I really really like it. And not just because a good friend gave it to me. There's a heartfelt poignancy here. And beneath the seeming lack of musical common sense is a really strong sense of melody, harmony, and tonal emotion. It's like he wrote perfect songs at first, then cut them open to show us their insides. It all feels so honest.

Average customer rating: An Icelandic Friend Turned Me On To This

Mugimama Is This Monkey Music? Mugison Manufacturer: Accidental ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007O250W Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

1. I Want You
2. The Chicken Song
3. Never Give Up
4. 2 Birds
5. What I Would Say In Your Funeral
6. Sad As A Truck
7. Swing Ding
8. Id Ask
9. Murr Murr
10. Salt
11. Hold On 2 Happiness
12. Afi Minn

Album Description

Mugison releases his third and most accessible album following successful live shows in the UK and Europe in support of Super Furry Animals, fellow-Icelanders Mum and a headline appearance at 2004's Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Back in his home country of Iceland, he has already won Album of The Year and this album showcases the best of his acoustic and electronic talents alongside good, old-fashioned song writing.

Customer Reviews:

An Icelandic Friend Turned Me On To This.......2005-08-03

Holy cow ... I haven't heard anybody play this raw and this well in a long, long time. Mugison is a truly eccentric Icelandic singer-songwriter in whose multi-intrumentalist spirit I sense a kinship with Tom Waits, Tom Ze and Vic Chestnutt, though Mugison doesn't *sound* like any one of the others to a large degree. He wields distorted guitars and whole-throated vocals; yet doesn't wail or "rock out." It's a big, big sound; yet it's introspective and deeply personal like Elliott Smith. Strange, exotic, supernatural -- everything you'd expect from an Icelander. But, unlike the other major Icelandic exports Bjork and Sigur Ros, Mugison sounds less Euro-ish and Pop-ish; he's more like a low-fi troubadour for 21st century globalistas. Darned strange this one is. Great, though. Really, really great.

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