Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know
| Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 17 August 2009 | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 49:07 | |||
| Label | Morr Music Euphono | |||
| Múm chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 62/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| BBC Music | (average) |
| The Guardian | |
| The Observer | (favourable) |
| Pitchfork Media | (3.9/10) |
| The Times | |
Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know is the fifth full-length studio album by Icelandic group múm, released in August 2009.
The album was first made available to purchase for download on 17 August 2009, through the web site Gogoyoko, with 10 percent of the proceeds being donated to the non-governmental organisation Refugees United. The full European release followed on 24 August, and the North American on 22 September.
As indicated by the title, some of the album's songs partly and informally rework melodies and lyrics from known pop songs. Thus, "If I Were a Fish" includes references to the Tim Hardin song "If I Were a Carpenter" and "Sing Along" includes a melody from "The World Laughs On", a song by Danish musician Otto Brandenburg, popularized in an Icelandic version in 1960 entitled "Ég er kominn heim", performed by Óðinn Valdimarsson.