Múm

When seeking to create an eerie, ethereal album — one that sounds like a string of sirens’ serenades to spooky spirits — it helps to record in a remote Icelandic lighthouse. Múm learned this lesson on 2002’s Finally We Are No One, and the band returned by helicopter to the unorthodox studio space to record its recent release, Summer Make Good. The trio uses woodwinds, horns and programmed percussion to conjure chilling yet calm compositions, but the freakish fun really starts when Kristín Anna Valtysdóttir unleashes her wispy wail. Valtysdóttir sounds like a combination of her countrywoman Bjork and an unpredictable apparition sent to haunt the world that snuffed her life at an early age. Thinking of that voice echoing through an empty lighthouse triggers flashbacks to a similar setting in The Ring; fans are advised not to videotape this performance.