Six years after 2019’s Fever Dream, Of Monsters and Men returned with their fourth full-length, All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade. Hitting on the highs and lows of life, the Icelandic quintet stick close to their established sound: touching and tender indie folk anthems that play on earnestness and innocence. The vocal interplay between Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar “Raggi” Þórhallsson remains the primary draw, with the band — Brynjar Leifsson, Kristján Páll Kristjánsson, and Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson — wrapping listeners in the warm sonic hug that the group is known for. These are intimate peeks into life, both the good and bad, or the love and the pain from the album’s title. The simplicity helps focus the effort, which dials back the bombast of…

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