3.10.2005
the Sun, uk, April 22 - 4/4 ´a towering talent´ - ´Bjork with a headache´ MUGISON
Mugimama - Is This Monkey Music? Accidental
 

As the title of Icelandic sailor turned singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mugison's third album suggests, this is a motley collection of songs, at once playful and serious, lyrical and knowing. Boldly mixing electro acoustic and post-rock with indietronic and traditional Icelandic folk music, Mugison effortlessly shapes his quirky postmodern experimental impulses with simple melodies and driving polyrhythms. Switching effortlessly between bittersweet duets (What I Would Say In Your Funeral and 2 Birds, both with his girlfriend), rockular ballads (I Want You, The Chicken Song) and a grinding metal anthem (Sad As a Truck), this is a daringly eclectic collection of songs, not least in how the mercurial Mugison infuses his very savvy genre-bending with an exhilaratingly brash energy and warmth. www.mugison.com Jocelyn Clarke <<back