Summer Make Good

Summer Make Good is the third studio album by Icelandic band Múm. It was released on 12 April 2004 by FatCat Records.^[14]

Summer Make Good
Studio album by Múm
Released	12 April 2004 (2004-04-12)
Studio	Galtarviti (Westfjords) Garðskagaviti (Southern Peninsula)
Genre	Electronica[1] post-rock[1]
Length	46:50
Label	FatCat
Múm chronology
Finally We Are No One (2002) Summer Make Good (2004) Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (2007)
Singles from Summer Make Good
"Nightly Cares" Released: 15 March 2004[2]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Alternative Press	4/5[5]
Drowned in Sound	8/10[6]
Entertainment Weekly	C[7]
Mojo	[8]
Pitchfork	4.5/10[9]
Q	[10]
Slant Magazine	[11]
Stylus Magazine	7/10[12]
Tiny Mix Tapes	4/5[13]

The CD edition of Summer Make Good was released in a cardboard sleeve. 28 June 2004 saw the release of a "limited presentation" edition of the album: a hardcover book (with dust jacket) containing artwork, and with the CD slotted into the inside back cover.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, except where noted.^[15]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hú hviss – A Ship"		1:27
2.	"Weeping Rock, Rock"		6:18
3.	"Nightly Cares"		4:58
4.	"The Ghosts You Draw on My Back"	Smárason Tynes K. A. Valtýsdóttir Samuli Kosminen	4:14
5.	"Stir"		2:41
6.	"Sing Me Out the Window"		4:42
7.	"The Island of Children's Children"		5:16
8.	"Away"		1:28
9.	"Oh, How the Boat Drifts"	Smárason Tynes K. A. Valtýsdóttir Gyða Valtýsdóttir	5:11
10.	"Small Deaths Are the Saddest"		1:30
11.	"Will the Summer Make Good for All of Our Sins?"		4:02
12.	"Abandoned Ship Bells"		5:03
Total length:			46:50

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[16]

Additional musicians

• Ólöf Arnalds – guitar, viola, Stroh violin, xylophone, backing vocals
• Girls from Austurbæjarskóli (Ársól Þóra Sigurðardóttir, Brynja Siggeirsdóttir, Halla Björg Sigurþórsdóttir, Perla Hafþórsdóttir, Vigdís Perla Maack and Viktoria Sigurðardóttir) – vocals on "Weeping Rock, Rock"
• Samuli Kosminen – drums, percussion, sampler
• Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson – trumpet, pianette, Moog synthesizer, whistle
• Adam Pierce – harp
• Halldór Arnar Úlfarsson – halldorophone

Production

• Graeme Durham – editing
• Orri Jónsson – mixing, recording
• Múm – mixing
• Mandy Parnell – mastering

Design

• Dave Howell – artwork
• Dave Thomas – artwork

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[17]	85
Belgian Alternative Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[18]	40
French Albums (SNEP)[19]	129
Irish Albums (IRMA)[20]	45
Italian Albums (FIMI)[21]	56
UK Albums (OCC)[22]	159
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[23]	27
US Top Dance Albums (Billboard)[24]	11