Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK is the debut album by experimental

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 Iceland

Iceland

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ic musical group múm

Múm

múm are an experimental Icelandic musical group whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.- History :...

, originally released on TMT (Iceland) on 11 March 2000, and then on 2 April 2001 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. In 2005 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties

All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)

All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....

-curated Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back (concert series)

Don't Look Back is a yearly series of concerts in which London based promoters All Tomorrow's Parties ask artists and bands to play one of their seminal albums live in its entirety...

 series. "The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" appears in the 2009 film Until the Light Takes Us

Until The Light Takes Us

Until the Light Takes Us is a 2009 feature documentary about Norwegian black metal, from directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell.-Featured interviewees:* Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell...

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Track listing

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

Personnel

• Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   on track 6
• Helga Björg Arnardóttir – clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
   on tracks 3 and 6
• Stefán Már Magnússon – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
   on track 6
• Hildur Guðnadóttir, Gróa Margrét Valdimarsdóttir, Sigríður Geirsdóttir – strings
  String instrument
  A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
  
   on track 6
• Arnaldur Hilmisson, Múm – artwork

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Catalog
Iceland Iceland Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...	11 March 2000	TMT Entertainment	TMT02CD, TMT02LP
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	2 April 2001	TMT Entertainment	TMT02CD, TMT02LP
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	25 September 2001	P-Vine	PCD-23157
United Kingdom	21 January 2002	Tugboat Records	TUGCD021, TUGLP021
Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	3 October 2005	Morr Music Morr Music Morr Music is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 1999 by Thomas Morr. Most artists on the label fall into the categories of intelligent dance music, electronica and dreampop, but all reflect Thomas Morr's personal taste...	MM058CD, MM0582LP