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Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away
No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away is the sort of title I would expect from a 70’s prog rock band with beards and seven minute guitar solo’s being the order of the day, not the latest album from Danish art rock band Mew.
I thgink i’m right in saying this is the 5th album from Mew and for me it runs Frengers and the 2005 album And the Glass Handed Kites really close, over time I can easily see it surpassing those two in my affections.
It’s always irritated me how a band like Sigur Ros (who I do like) seem to get praise and attention lavished on them at every turn, to the point where you feel they coulf fart intol a glass and would get a five star review for it, yet Mew seem to have to fight for everything they achieve.
Similarities aren’t lost on me between the two bands either, yes they are both Scandinavian, but it runs deeper than that, there is overlap in the textured brilliance that underpins much of Mew’s latest album.
It opens with the dreamlike New Terrain, then gives us an electro groove on Introducing Palace Players, before Beach rears it’s head screaming ‘single’ with guitar and drums taking the limelight until the angelic vocal comes in, it’s just short of three minutes and the perfect pop song.
- Mew
- No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away (2009)
- Category: Album
- Label: Columbia Records
- Reviewed by: Kev
- Published on: 24 Aug 2009
- Comments: 0
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Add to favouritesThey keep the surprises and changes in style coming with the chunky riffs of Repeater Beater, the beautiful Silas The Magic Car, the hazy Cartoons And Macrame Wounds, or a track like Hawaii that lulls you in with a slow start then bursts into life around the two minute mark and builds to a majestic climax.
As you would expect from Mew if you’ve heard anything before from them, they know how to do the epic, Vaccine certainly falls into that category, the “sometimes life isn’t easy” chorus of Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy pulls that into similar territory and would make a great single and album closer Reprise also has a massive, intense and gorgeous feel to it.
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