Mew - Visuals (April 28th, 2017) Album

Side A

1. Nothingness And No Regrets
2. The Wake Of Your Life
3. Candy Pieces All Smeared Out
4. In A Better Place
5. Ay Ay Ay

Side B

1. Learn Our Crystals
2. Twist Quest
3. Shoulders
4. 85 Videos
5. Zanzibar
6. Carry Me To Safety

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Mew

 

Whoa! That's some creepy album art. Excited for this.

 

Yesss

 

Wow what an awesome surprise

 

Last album was great. Here for this

 

really into this song.

 

Just realize that it's the closing track. Poop. Wish I didn't listen.

 

new song is really cool, high hopes for this album now

 

Whoa, nice surprise, really quick turnaround time compared to the last couple albums.

I've had concerns about this band's future since Bo left in 2015, but new track is killer. Actually, I'd even say it has that over-the-top weirdness from NMS that was largely missing on the last record, so I'm pumped.

 

sweet

 

I'll listen later today, but pumped for this oh yes

 

This feels super soon, ha. Still interested.

 

was that a saxophone when the tremolo picked guitar part begins? p cool

 

Great track!! Decided to randomly check this after barely ever listening to them before, phenomenal stuff.

 

anyone who is reading this thread that hasn't listened to Mew has to go listen to Glass Handed Kites

now

 

also, and I say this because there seem to be many fans of Coheed and Dear Hunter in this board: this is how you do prog rock/pop without becoming a caricature of yrslf or a Rush/Yes parody

 

also, bonus cool kid points for having J Mascis as a guest in yr album

doing vocals

because you have enough shred in you that you can have him guest without playing guitar

 

Both those bands are fantastic and pretty different from what I've heard of Mew, I don't see the need for reaching for a comparison.

 

need? there's no NEED to discuss anything

I just like contrasting and comparing

Coheed's been on my mind as of late (because of the Coheed thread) and I've been thinking about what makes a good prog rock/pop band and how the line between ridiculous and prog-tastic is so thin, and then this thread came up and it was like "aha, that's it"

that's all

at the end we're all here for a bit o mental masturbation ; )

 

go listen to Glass Handed Kites asap

 

GHK is epic in its own right - but actually, I was going to recommend beachdude go straight for No More Stories if this new track blew him away. GHK and NMS are quite different stylistically despite their shared brilliance.

"Carry Me" sounds like a completely natural evolution from NMS, even more so than most of +/-.

 

Fair enough haha, wasn't trying to bash you or anything I just felt like it was kind of a random comparison lol. Personally I think Coheed frequently falls on the right side of that prog "line" you're talking about, they have a lot of really hooky and memorable tracks for me.

 

I went to Frengers first because I don't do what I'm told lol... that and another online friend of mine had told me that was the best to start with, and I'll probably just listen to that and the albums after it chronologically. Really loving this so far.

 

Every one of their releases is fantastic, despite the band constantly reinventing themselves. Frengers is an excellent, tasteful pop-rock record with a dream-pop tinge to it. After that, though, they went in a drastically more eccentric and surrealist direction - with GHK being a guitar rock take on that idea, whereas NMS is pure dream pop and heavily electronic.