Mum, Talkdemonic, Tom Brosseau

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For years, Múmhave put me to sleep. In my bed, on trains and planes, and almost during their Showbox appearance in 2004. I blame that not entirely on the Icelandic experimental band’s soothing presence, but on whoever booked them following hip-hop dude Why? and Southwestern-tinged rockers Calexico. Touring for their spooky, lost-at-sea album Summer Make Good, it was a rough comedown. In Seattle on an earlier tour, they’d played a secret show on the old ferry Kalakala, where I’d much rather have seen them; their enchanted meanderings on the physical and inner world must’ve sounded perfect there. How it’ll come off on this tour is a mystery now that the foursome has been reduced to two of its original members, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason. Outlook is good, though, as their newest album, Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, returns the band to its earliest sound, a playful tinkering with rhythms and glitches that’s like a six-year-old turned loose on an MPC. They’ve married that old sensibility to their usual storytelling for songs that’ll keep you on your feet. With Talkdemonic and Tom Brosseau.
Sat., Oct. 27, 8 p.m., 2007