Múm sound even more childish since the departure of their singer Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir. Not that there’s anything wrong with childishness - the band evokes the best parts of childhood: the kickball and monkey bars, the tea parties and slumber parties. Songs like “If I Were a Fish” capture this youthful wonder with lyrics like, “If I were a fish/and you were a seashell/would you marry me anyway?/would you have my babies?” The problem with the album is that since they ceased singing in Icelandic, they’ve lost some of their otherworldly mysticism, although there’s a clear Sigur Rós influence on the track "Hullaballabalú." For Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know, Múm added IDM beats and an Estonian choir to their folktronica-dubbed sound, and still managed to keep their zest. A blogger once said the album made him feel like he was in a Hayao Miyazaki movie. It does - 100%. - Evan Tokarz