It's been over 3 years since the release of múm's last album 'Summer make good' and a lot of water has passed under the bridge. And now finally, a new batch of songs making up a fresh album, strangely titled 'go go smear the poison ivy', a colorful, twitching and playful work of art, full of life affirming energy. The album was recorded in a number of different places, one of them being the music school in the small fishingtown of Ísafjörður in the west fjords of iceland, making use of the schools various instruments. The drums were mostly recorded in an old school house on the island of Nötö west of Finland. The songs on this multifarious album were conceived over a long period in many a different fashion, one song even dating back to the period of 'Yesterday was dramatic, today is OK.' The album will be preceded by the single 'they made frogs smoke 'til they exploded' in august, a chirpy song about animal cruelty. The B-side is a wonky insect-circus instrumental, 'the amateur show'. In the 3 years since the last full length offering, múm has not slept more than thought to be normal. After 'Summer make good' they toured extensively in Europe, the US and Asia and in 2005 they were invited to Amsterdam by the Holland Festival to collaborate with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra to create a performance piece based around various compositions of the late avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis for one of the centre piece shows at the festival. Shortly after that the lines were starting to form around the new album. With the departure of Kristín Vlatýsdóttir in the beginning of the creative process, the core of múm is again down to the original duo of founding members Gunnar and Örvar, but the band itself is now larger than ever counting in all seven people. In there time outside of múm, the boys have been keeping themselves busy. Gunnar has been producing, recording, engineering and mixing for a number of local and international act, quickly becoming one of the most sought after producers in Iceland. In addition he has been working long sleepless nights on his solo project, under the guise of Illi Vill, soon to be unveiled. Örvar has spent much of his time away from music, mostly focusing on writing. He published 2 books in the last couple of years, as well as working on art and design. In addition to that he has been performing and playing with a number of icelandic acts, such as Skakkamanage, Benni Hemm Hemm, Singapore Sling, FM Belfast, Reprasensitive Man and more. The artwork for 'go go smear the poison ivy' is in the hands of Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, strangely eerie images, almost hypnotizing, complimented by special packaging. Ingibjörg also animated the video for the first single.