Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK

Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK is the debut studio album by Icelandic experimental musical group Múm. It was released by TMT Entertainment in Iceland on 11 March 2000, and then on 2 April 2001 in the United Kingdom.

Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK
Studio album by
Múm
Released11 March 2000 (2000-03-11)
Genre
Length67:41
LabelTMT
Producer
  • Múm
  • Finnur Björnsson
Múm chronology
Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK
(2000)		 Finally We Are No One
(2002)

In 2005, Múm performed the album live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series. "The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" appears in the 2009 film Until the Light Takes Us.

On 30 August 2019, Morr Music released a remastered 20th anniversary edition of Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK. The release featured newly commissioned reworkings of the album's songs as bonus tracks: a cover of "Smell Memory" by Kronos Quartet (with additional drums by Múm's Samuli Kosminen), a reinterpretation of "Random Summer" by Hauschka, and a new version of "Ballad of the Broken String" by Sóley.[1]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Guardian[3]
Mojo[4]
Muzik4/5[5]
NME8/10[6]
Pitchfork9.1/10[7]
Tiny Mix Tapes4.5/5[8]

Tim DiGravina of AllMusic wrote that Múm "proves to be as successful at creating emotional ambient electronic music" and called Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK "an unmitigated, accessible masterpiece".[2] Matt LeMay of Pitchfork deemed it "one of the most deeply, purely emotionally affecting albums of the year".[7]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."I'm 9 Today"4:42
2."Smell Memory"9:23
3."There Is a Number of Small Things"6:32
4."Random Summer"3:12
5."Asleep on a Train"7:17
6."Awake on a Train"9:23
7."The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records"5:25
8."The Ballad of the Broken String"4:45
9."Sunday Night Just Keeps on Rolling"8:10
10."Slow Bicycle"8:47
20th anniversary edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" (Ruxpin Remix II)5:13
12."Smell Memory" (Bix Remix)5:14
13."There Is a Number of Small Things & The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" (µ-Ziq Straight Mix)8:01
14."The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" (Biogen Mix)5:24
15."Smell Memory" (Kronos Quartet Rework)9:34
16."Random Summer" (Hauschka Rework)3:53
17."The Ballad of the Broken String" (Sóley Rework)4:08

Personnel

Release history
Region Date Label Catalog
Iceland 11 March 2000 TMT Entertainment TMT02CD, TMT02LP
United Kingdom 2 April 2001
Japan 25 September 2001 P-Vine PCD-23157
United Kingdom 21 January 2002 Tugboat Records TUGCD021, TUGLP021
Europe 3 October 2005 Morr Music MM058CD, MM0582LP
Taiwan 2006 Avant Garden Records

References
  1. "Mum: Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK (20th Anniversary Edition) – 3LP – Morr Music". Forced Exposure. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  2. DiGravina, Tim. "Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK – Múm". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  3. Kabuubi, Maxine (30 June 2000). "Mum: Yesterday was Dramatic, Today is OK (Tugboat)". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  4. "Múm: Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK". Mojo. 2005. p. 122. [T]he tracks they construct are full of an indefinable wonder...
  5. Green, Thomas H. (August 2000). "Múm: Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK (Tugboat/Thule)". Muzik. No. 63. p. 122.
  6. "Múm: Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK". NME. 22 April 2000.
  7. LeMay, Matt (7 July 2001). "Múm: Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK". Pitchfork. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  8. "Múm – Yesterday Was Dramatic Today is Ok". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
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