- Label
- Columbia
- Release date
- 24th August 2009
- Genre
- Rock
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Pretentious Danish art-rockers: crazy title, crazy guys!
Contrary Danish synth-rockers Mew have been winning plaudits in Scandinavia since they formed in 1994 but this fifth album may be the one to bring them to a wider audience – even if its full title is an imposing 23 words long.
They describe themselves as “pretentious art rock” and it’s not a bad description for this musical smorgasboard which veers from the serene atmospherics of Sigur Ros to Flaming Lips’ stoned agitation and Smashing Pumpkins’ portentous guff – often within the same song. It’s never less than diverting and when it works, on the layered pristine pop of Hawaii and seven-minute symphonic epic Cartoons and Macramé Wounds, it is genuinely uplifting.
Oh, and that title in full is 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. So now you know.
More to try:
The Delgados: The Great Eastern
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Zwan: Mary Star Of The Sea
