Summer Make Good

Summer Make Good is a studio album by múm. It was released via FatCat Records on 12 April 2004.[1] It peaked at number 11 on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.[12]

Summer Make Good
Studio album by múm
Released	12 April 2004 (2004-04-12)[1]
Genre	Electronica
Length	46:58
Label	FatCat
Múm chronology
Finally We Are No One (2002) Summer Make Good (2004) Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (2007)
Singles from Summer Make Good
"Nightly Cares" Released: 15 March 2004[2]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
BBC	favorable[5]
Entertainment Weekly	mixed[6]
Pitchfork	4.5/10[7]
PopMatters	favorable[8]
Slant Magazine	[9]
Stylus Magazine	C+[10]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[11]

The album was originally released as a cardboard sleeve CD. 28 June 2004 saw the release of a "Limited Presentation Edition", a hardcover book (with dust jacket) containing artwork, having the CD slotted into the inside back cover.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hú Hviss - A Ship"	1:27
2.	"Weeping Rock, Rock"	6:18
3.	"Nightly Cares"	4:58
4.	"The Ghosts You Draw on My Back"	4:14
5.	"Stir"	2:41
6.	"Sing Me Out the Window"	4:42
7.	"The Island of Children's Children"	5:16
8.	"Away"	1:28
9.	"Oh, How the Boat Drifts"	5:11
10.	"Small Deaths Are the Saddest"	1:30
11.	"Will the Summer Make Good for All of Our Sins?"	4:02
12.	"Abandoned Ship Bells"	5:03

Personnel

Additional musicians

• Samuli Kosminen – drums, percussion
• Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson – trumpet, pianette, moog, whistle
• Ólöf Arnalds – guitar, viola, stroh violin, xylophone, vocals
• Adam Pierce – harp
• Halldór Arnar Úlfarson – halldorophone
• Girls from Austurbæjarskóli – vocals (on "Weeping Rock, Rock")
  • Ársól Þóra Sigurðardóttir, Brynja Siggeirsdóttir, Halla Björg Sigurþórsdóttir
  • Perla Hafþórsdóttir, Vigdís Perla Maack, Viktoria Sigurðardóttir

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[12]	11

References

1. "Summer Make Good". FatCat Records. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
2. "Nightly Cares". FatCat Records. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
3. "Summer Make Good by Mum". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
4. Phares, Heather. "Summer Make Good - Múm". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
5. Masri, Shamir (2004). "Múm - Summer Make Good - Review". BBC. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
6. Cherkis, Jason (7 May 2004). "Summer Make Good". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
7. Sylvester, Nick (13 April 2004). "Múm: Summer Make Good". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
8. Begrand, Adrien (13 April 2004). "Múm: Summer Make Good". PopMatters. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
9. Cinquemani, Sal (22 May 2004). "Múm - Summer Make Good". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
10. Schpper, Ron (13 April 2004). "Mum - Summer Make Good". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
11. Guest Writer. "Múm - Summer Make Good". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
12. "Top Dance/Electronic Albums - The Week of May 22, 2004". Billboard. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

External links

• Summer Make Good at Discogs (list of releases)