To call Mew "sort of surreal," of course, is like saying Bill Gates is "reasonably well off." If the sprawling, soaring bliss-rock of their breakthrough third album Frengers (2003) --particularly the ecstatically icy space ballets 'She Came Home For Christmas' -- and NME Single Of The Week 'Comforting Sounds' -- projected a sense of glacial fairy tales wonderment then their fourth record and the Glass Handed Kites is even greater leap into the unknown. Redefining the concept of an album -- and   [ read more ]

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This is an 12" x 18" Mew poster from the April 07, 2007 show at the Henry Fonda Theater in L.A. Designed by: Maria Isabel Arango

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Danish quartet Mew's dense and occasionally difficult And the Glass Handed Kites is old-fashioned only in the sense that it's meant to be eaten in a single sitting. This is not a single-driven record -- though "Special," with its bouncy, moody chorus and octave vocal delivery, sounds like an emission from a time machine parked dead center within the heydays of early-'90s alternative rock -- rather, it's a single organism. Kites takes the wisdom and volatility of the Delgados ({&"Chinaberry   [ read more ]

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Danish quartet Mew's dense and occasionally difficult And the Glass Handed Kites is old-fashioned only in the sense that it's meant to be eaten in a single sitting. This is not a single-driven record -- though "Special," with its bouncy, moody chorus and octave vocal delivery, sounds like an emission from a time machine parked dead center within the heydays of early-'90s alternative rock -- rather, it's a single organism. Kites takes the wisdom and volatility of the Delgados ({&"Chinaberry   [ read more ]

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