Epic Danish band Mew are about to release their latest album and we think it's called 'No More Stories'. We say think because the title according to the band's myspace site reads as follows:
'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'
According to the site, the album is due for release on August 25th. To add to the weirdness of this whole thing, the track listing includes pictures in it. Yes, pictures as song titles.
No More Stories...:
01 New Terrain 02 Introducing Palace Players 03 Beach 04 Repeaterbeater 05 06 Silas the Magic Car 07 Cartoons and Macramé Wounds 08 A Dream 09 Hawaii 10 Vaccine 11 Tricks of the Trade 12 13 Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy 14 Reprise
Danish alt-rockers Mew, who broke through two years ago with the release of their deliciously good third album 'And the Glass Handed Kites', have wrapped sessions on their fourth studio album.
Recorded and mixed primarily in New York, the as yet untitled album is on target for a June 2009 release.
According to singer Jonas Bjerre, the biggest change for Mew this time around was keeping their recording timeline down to a minimum. "We were in agreement when we started writing this record, promising ourselves, 'This is not going to take three years to make. We need to work faster,'" Bjerre told Spin Magazine.
The band also moved away from the continuous manner in which 'Kites' was mixed, where one song basically bled seamlessly into the next. "The last record we did was like one long thing, and I love that about it," Bjerre says. "We didn’t want to do that again, we wanted to have separate songs. I think it’s like a counter reaction to what we did last time."
Mew are playing at the Summersonic Festival in Japan come August time. Does this mean they might make their debut appearance in Australia for Splendour? Let's hope that we will see them in Australia sometime soon.
Mew formed in seventh grade at elementary school during a group artistic project. They chose to make a film about man's destruction of mother earth. They made the film and composed the background music. That is how it all began...
At their very first gig an agent for a book publishing company caught them and was so impressed he convinced his company to completely change their business plan to record and release the debut Mew album, 'A Triumph For Man' (1997). Limited to 2000 copies it's now a highly-valued rarity and was a critical hit in Denmark.
By the time second album 'Half The World Is Watching Me' was ready for its release in 2000, Mew's relationship with their parent company was fraying at the edges, so the band created their own label, Evil Office, to release it. No sooner did it get an initial limited release in Sweden, however, than they were snapped up by Sony for a world-wide deal and decided to pull the new record and re-record the best of their catalogue for an international audience. The result was 'Frengers', a tenfold leap in sales figures and suddenly Mew found themselves thrust into the 'big time' of one-bedroom London squat-holes and lengthy Transit van tours of the M6. It was whilst on their tour of the UK that the apocalyptic art boys wrote and recorded their 4th album. Their fourth record 'And the Glass Handed Kites' is an even greater leap into the unknown. Redefining the concept of an 'album' - and, indeed, of a 'concept album' - And the Glass Handed Kites is an eccentric 60 minute rock headfuck, flinging musical ideas, distorted nightmare images and heartbreak choruses at the listener with what at first seems to be a random ferocity.
The best band to have come out of Denmark in recent years - Mew - should be the effervescene of everybody's life. Get into them now!!
N.B. Mew have toured with the likes of Robbie Williams, Sigur Rós, Manic Street Preachers, Kashmir, Cooper Temple Clause, R.E.M. and Elbow. They also received the 2003 Danish Music Critics "Album of the Year" and "Band of the Year" awards.
