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The Album Leaf's Jimmy LaValle finds A Safe Place

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Thanks to the long nights and harsh climate, book and record stores and pubs are the default meeting places for young Icelanders. Traditional recording studios are often hard to come by, so resourceful musicians band together to help out, offering their homes (and/or swimming pools and lighthouses), their opinions, and often, their talents. If one's not going to see a band, they're likely forming one, or else joining some friends for a free-form jam session. It's taking what you've been given, and making the best of it.

Which, in the end, is the secret to Múm's success, if not that of their country as a whole: taking rock formations and reconfiguring them through rock band formations. Using unlit winter days to explore the dark nights of the soul. Taking all the snow and ice and melting it into the clear, liquid clarity that only the purest works may boast. And all without worrying about record sales, cliquish grudges, and all the other such distractions that so often bog artists down.

It's a novel concept, really: when all else fails, let the music do the talking.

Múm play the Neighborhood Theatre Tuesday, with Slowblow and Mar opening. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Showtime is 7:30pm, and the doors open at 6:30pm.

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