Summer Make Good
by Múm
  • Record Label: Fat Cat
  • Release Date: May 4, 2004
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Junkmedia
    100
    Particularly striking is the group's ability to mix vast instrumental soundscapes with subtle electronic manipulations, creating a synthesis of analog and digital elements that is visionary in its sonic impact.
  2. Logo
    80
    Catching electronica in it’s embryonic state and somehow fusing it together with lush folk stylings, weathered ambience and the slightest - most beautiful - trace of vocals ‘Summer Makes Good’ is a truly breath-taking record.
  3. Alternative Press
    80
    For fans of Sigur Ros and Mogwai, this is a godsend, but those who feel like those bands just incessantly mine one-chord riffs would do better to stay away. [May 2004, p.96]
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  5. Dot Music
    80
    This is a strange, disturbing, unsettling, compelling album.
  6. Drowned In Sound
    80
    A tender, smouldering album of drifting, rudderless beauty.
  7. PopMatters
    80
    The album is much more consistent, more cinematic than anything they have done before.
  8. Tiny Mix Tapes
    80
    An amazing accomplishment and a pleasure to listen to.
  9. No Ripcord
    80
    This is not for all tastes. Slow, broody, experimental.
  10. Splendid
    80
    Summer Make Good blurs the distinctions of digital and analog to the point of opening new categories.
  11. Mojo
    80
    Dreamily exploratory, but rooted in pop. [Apr 2004, p.102]
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  12. Stylus Magazine
    70
    Does Summer Make Good maintain the peak established by its predecessors? In a word: no. But that doesn’t mean it’s not good, because it is; it’s just not quite as magical as the others.
  13. ShakingThrough.net
    70
    Clips and clatters, glitchy mechanics and breathy cooing have displaced the beautiful melodies that are Múm's strong suit.
  14. Filter
    70
    Yes, there are the makings of an ambient symphony... but the more prominent strains of folk instrumentation--accordions, banjos and glockenspiels--suggest to us that maybe it's not all gloom and glum. [#10, p.91]
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  15. Almost Cool
    65
    Their production is still top-notch, and as mentioned above the album still has some great sounds and moments, but it's not quite up to the level that they've done in the past.

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User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Mr.White
    Jul 6, 2009
    10
    This is one of my all-time favorite albums, and my favorite album of mum.
  2. Damianh
    Oct 7, 2006
    6
    not as conventional as 'finally we are no one' however if being dis illusioned by some far away place you left behind in your not as conventional as 'finally we are no one' however if being dis illusioned by some far away place you left behind in your childhood is bearable then its worth the buy… Full Review »
  3. carlos
    Dec 5, 2005
    9
    The first few times i listened to summer make good i didn't think it was as good as finally we are no one, but after a few more listens The first few times i listened to summer make good i didn't think it was as good as finally we are no one, but after a few more listens i've grown to like it just as much. Mum once again creates a record of beautiful soundscapes. I don't get how so many music critics love the new sigur ros but didn't like this.… Full Review »
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