Icelandic electro-acoustic experimental pop auteurs múm are back with their first album in 12 years. History of Silence, the followup to 2013's Smilewound, is out September 19 via Morr Music.

With the news comes first single "Mild at Heart". Check out the video – shot and edited by Sigurlaug Gísladóttir – below:

According to a fittingly múm-ish press release, the new album offers "a collection of bold and colorful songs" that "tickle like a feather drifting through the wind, ending up in unexpected places, stimulating long-forgotten thoughts and feelings, intimate moments of introspection."

Indeed!

While work on the album was initiated southern Italy, additional recordings were made in Reykjavík, Berlin, Athens, Helsinki, New York, and Prague.

The group will also be heading out on tour in September and October across the US and Canada, marking their first full North American tour (following a couple US festival appearances and a New York show this spring) since before the COVID pandemic. Find those dates below.

History of Silence is out September 19. Preorder here. Full tracklist:

1. Miss You Dance
2. Kill the Light
3. Mild at Heart
4. Avignon
5. Only Songbirds Have a Sweet Tooth
6. Our Love is Disorienting
7. A Dry Heart Needs No Winding
8. I Like to Shake

Full tour dates:

09/16 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
09/17 Washington, DC @ The Atlantik
09/19 Brooklyn, NY @ Pioneer Works
09/20 Hudson, NY @ Hudson Hall
09/21 Boston, NY @ Crystal Ballroom
09/23 Portland, ME @ Space
09/25 Toronto, ON @ Axis
09/26 Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk
09/28 Saint Paul, MN @ Turf Club
09/30 Denver, CO @ Meow Wolf
10/03 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
10/04 Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
10/05 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
10/07 Sacramento, CA @ Harlows
10/08 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
10/09 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent

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