Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK is the debut studio album by Icelandic band Múm. It was released on 23 December 1999 by TMT Entertainment.
Critical reception and legacy
Reviewing Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK for AllMusic, Tim DiGravina found the music "effortlessly timeless and thoroughly engrossing" and called the album "an unmitigated, accessible masterpiece." Matt LeMay of Pitchfork deemed it "one of the most deeply, purely emotionally affecting albums of the year."
In 2005, Múm performed Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back concert series. On 30 August 2019, Morr Music released a 20th anniversary remastered edition of the album, which included remixes and reinterpretations of the album's songs as bonus tracks.
Track listing All tracks are written by Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, Gunnar Örn Tynes, Gyða Valtýsdóttir and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir.References for songwriting credits: "I'm 9 Today": "Smell Memory": "There Is a Number of Small Things": "Random Summer": "Asleep on a Train": "Awake on a Train": "The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records": "The Ballad of the Broken String": "Sunday Night Just Keeps on Rolling": "Slow Bicycle":
Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
Additional musicians Helga Björg Arnardóttir – clarinet on "There Is a Number of Small Things" and "Awake on a Train" Sigríður Geirsdóttir – strings on "Awake on a Train" Hildur Guðnadóttir – strings on "Awake on a Train" Stefán Már Magnússon – guitar on "Awake on a Train" Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson – trumpet on "Awake on a Train" Gróa Margrét Valdimarsdóttir – strings on "Awake on a Train"
Production Finnur Björnsson – mixing, recording Finnur Hákonarson – recording Múm – mixing, recording
Design Arnaldur Hilmisson – artwork Múm – artwork
Release history Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Iceland 23 December 1999 TMT United Kingdom 19 June 2000 CD Tugboat In the left sidebar, click . Click . Japan 25 September 2001 P-Vine Various 4 October 2005 Morr Japan 21 September 2007 CD P-Vine 17 October 2012 Hostess Various 30 August 2019 Morr
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