''Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK'' is the debut

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by Icelandic band

Múm Múm (stylized in lowercase) () is an Icelandic indietronica band whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments. History The band was formed in 1 ...

. It was released on 23 December 1999 by TMT Entertainment.

Critical reception and legacy

Reviewing ''Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK'' for

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, Tim DiGravina found the music "effortlessly timeless and thoroughly engrossing" and called the album "an unmitigated, accessible masterpiece." Matt LeMay of ''

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'' deemed it "one of the most deeply, purely emotionally affecting albums of the year." In 2005, Múm performed ''Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK'' live in its entirety as part of the

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-curated Don't Look Back concert series. On 30 August 2019,

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released a 20th anniversary

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ed edition of the album, which included remixes and reinterpretations of the album's songs as bonus tracks.

Track listing

All tracks are written by

Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason (born 1977) is a founding member of Icelandic experimental band múm, and has been a part-time member of other Icelandic bands such as Benni Hemm Hemm, Singapore Sling, Slowblow, Andhéri, Skakkamanage, FM Be ...

Gunnar Örn Tynes Gunnar Örn Tynes is a founding member of the Icelandic experimental band múm. He is also a producer and a recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live pe ...

Gyða Valtýsdóttir Gyða Valtýsdóttir (born 5 January 1982) is an Icelandic musician and multi-instrumentalist and winner of the 2019 Nordic Council Music Prize. She was an original member of the experimental music group Múm and has released four full length solo ...

and

Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (born 5 January 1982), also known as Kría Brekkan, is an Icelandic vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist. She is best known as a former frontwoman of múm, and later on for collaborating with former ...

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Additional musicians * Helga Björg Arnardóttir – clarinet on "There Is a Number of Small Things" and "Awake on a Train" * Sigríður Geirsdóttir – strings on "Awake on a Train" *

Hildur Guðnadóttir Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm, and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and h ...

– strings on "Awake on a Train" * Stefán Már Magnússon – guitar on "Awake on a Train" * Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson – trumpet on "Awake on a Train" * Gróa Margrét Valdimarsdóttir – strings on "Awake on a Train" Production * Finnur Björnsson – mixing,

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* Finnur Hákonarson – recording * Múm – mixing, recording Design * Arnaldur Hilmisson – artwork * Múm – artwork

Release history

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK 1999 debut albums Múm albums