Nothing characterizes the Morr Music sound quite like this record, although it helps that Finally We Are No One was the first Morr record I’d ever heard... as soon as I awoke in the late afternoon sunset of January, the day after a house-party gutted our student home. Despite my poor condition, Mum sung a comforting yet playful divergence from then-favourite Sigur Ros (the only other Icelandic band I’d heard at the time) and this record displays both their talent for song-based vocal tracks (‘Green Grass of Tunnel’) as well as their more celebrated instrumental electronica. The band would soon-after begin fracturing (losing key vocalists in the Valtysdottir sisters) and shift gears into a more eclectic, eight-piece collective. Still, Mum’s legacy lies in their early trilogy of albums, of which Finally We Are No One is a worthy centerpiece.
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