In the beginning was the Word and the Word was Murmur ...

But shortly after naming ourselves Murmur, we discovered that there already existed a band in NYC named The Murmurs. Thus began an exquisitely painful, months-long journey of renaming.

On our way to F'loom we fell madly in love, then just as madly out of love, with scores of names. Here, for your psycholinguistic entertainment and edification, were some of our top candidates. (There, but for the grace of God, went F'loom ...)

acrolathe
aleph
avalathe
babel
BabelOn
babelphish
Ballyhoo
Balun Caesar
Balun Manifesto
Balun Sack
Balun Tureen
Belleraphon
BellWether
Bezique
Binnacle
Body Language
Bokhara
brellis
Byzantium
Catango!
Cephalopholus
churl
clasp
clobbell
collabyrinth
corridor
Coyle
cretango
Crucible
cynthion
dalph
dev
drivl
Droll Palette
dwarv
elocutus
eloquent
encomium
falalogos
falero
fathom
firth
flahmen
Flange Manifesto
Flange Patrol
fleer
fleer
flense
foreigntell
froom
Gallimaufrey
glarg
glarph
glavm
glebe
glick
glimmer
glock
Glog
glon
glongk
Glossolalia
glymph
glyph
gongk
Gorgontrix
Grail Balun
grog
gwark
gyre
hiss
Holy Kevin
huzzah
kalano
krayle
krell
Krentok
labyrinth
lambent
lathe
lobe
locus
logos
Loop Balun
Loop Simian
Loop Tureen
Lost in the Funhouse
LunaMuse
LunaText
macrolathe
maelstrom
malaam
malalogos
Manifest Balun
Manifest Philemon
maranth
marmor
marmur
marrow
melisma
mellifluous
Men of Babel
Men of Balun
Men of Now This!
Men of Tandava
Men of This
Men of Vellum
Metatarsals
metaxu
mistlethrush
Monkeys Jumping
moom
morass
mormur
MouthCoyle
mouthery
mouthfare
MouthFire
MouthLoom
MouthRise
mouthsome
MouthSwirl
MouthWeave
MouthWhorl
MouthWorks
mrrmrr
mrrmrrr
mrrrmrrrm
murm-hrrrrr
murmoar
murmohr
murmoor
murmor
murmore
murmur
murmurant
murmure
murmurman
murmurmen
murmuroam
murmurose
murmurous
murmurrun
murmurum
murmurundrum
murmurush
murrumor
murumur
Muse Balun
Muse Palette
Muskellunge
Naralathra
Novotnik
Now This!
Oedipus Balun
Oedipus Flange
Oedipus Mix
Oedipus Window
Om Chi-Chi
orb
Pachysandra
palabralathe
palabralinth
palabyrinth
palambyrinth
palavarynth
parabolith
pellucid
phalalogos
Phalanges
phaliopterix
phalogus
philabyrinth
Philemon
Philemon Balun
Philemon Bough
Philemon Caesar
Philemon Flange
Philemon Flux
Philemon Grail
Philemon Loop
Philemon Muse
Philemon Orbit
Philemon Rex
Philemon Triad
Philemon Walrus
Philemon Window
Philemon Yarrow
phonologos
phonoria
plosive
pranth
precipice
prell
prester
ranth
recollect
rinv
roon
Scandiloop
Scrabblestrum
screak
septum
seven
Simian Balun
Simian Flange
Simian Flux
Simian Manifesto
Six Balls
skell
slopdiv’m
snag’m
snakkle
snarv
sonolathe
sonologos
sorb
speakfathom
SpeakFathom
Spirovnik
spokefathom
squack
squonk
steeplechase
storax
strake
stressile
surcingle
swaft
SwatFathom
swossel
swottle
swozzle
tack
Taki Dom
taluman
tan sedan
Tandava
tektos
tektum
tendrilathe
tessera
The Red Point
thews
ThormaLoop
Three Men Speaking
tifgazelle
tokkle
trill
Trillium
trillogeny
trillos
triptych
tryad
tumblehome
uloquent
ululathe
ululati
ululoquent
upside-downly
utter
Uvula Rasa
uvuloquent
varnicle
Vellum
verdigris
Vespertine
vespos
vesselathe
vocalliope
Vodovall
vogologos
volar
waft
Walpurgisnacht
whitiver
wordon
WovenKell
xanthoom
Yarrow Balun
Yarrow Bough
yaup
zark
zaum