mum-video-sing-along.jpg

Yesterday a singing crow, today a singing deer. The Kevin Phillips-directed video for múm’s “Sing Along” is a compelling clip with some truly beautiful moments (wait for the butterflies). It’s a bit like “Sugar, We’re Going Down” re-imagined by Icelanders with a darker and deeper visual aesthetic: A deer’s killed, kissed, and dragged dead up a hill and into a household where it becomes a rag doll pet forced to withstand all sorts of indignities (riding a seesaw, playing catch, acting as a centerpiece, getting framed, etc.), occasionally trying to do what the song title suggests. The lyrics includes lines like “we want to eat you with our spoon” and “you are so beautiful to us / we want to lock you in our house,” which may make you want to skip tonight’s bear stew and instead take your dog for a walk. Then again, maybe the clip’s finale will just have you in the mood for charred venison.

Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know is out via the band’s Euphono. “Sing Along” includes the album title. “Illuminated“‘s a sing-along song.

Comments (7)
  1. There can be only one.

  2. Matt  |   Posted on Sep 30th, 2009

    I love love love dead singing dear.

  3. Matt  |   Posted on Sep 30th, 2009

    Deer even. Really.

  4. c-money  |   Posted on Oct 1st, 2009

    fyi, the girl starring in this video makes her own lovely music right here: http://www.myspace.com/uncleowenauntberu

  5. Diallo  |   Posted on Oct 1st, 2009

    This is a pretty sweet video – same for the song.

  6. Is there a way to embed this on blogger? When I chose embed above and put it in blogger, nothing shows up.

  7. pisssssssssssed at such lovely talent..and no website. Euphono? BUT god, FUCK….and other things, I really dug the video immensley……………………………………….and the SONG. :)

Leave a Reply

Login

You must be logged in to post, reply to, or rate a comment.

%s1 / %s2