http://www.npr.org/2015/04/19/399615381/first-listen-mew
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
album is GREAT
Can't wait.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 20 April 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
What's on the second disc of the deluxe version?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 20 April 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
no idea
wow @ "rows"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
stream not available in my country :(
― MaresNest, Monday, 20 April 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
What's on the second disc of the deluxe version?― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, April 20, 2015 7:17 PM (2 hours ago)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, April 20, 2015 7:17 PM (2 hours ago)
A live CD, apparently.http://www.recordstore.co.uk/recordstore/Special-Offers/-Deluxe-Edition/4F8302BQ000
1. Coffee Break (Live)2. Satellites (Live)3. She Spider (Live)4. Hawaii (Live)5. My Complications (Live)6. Silas The Magic Car (Live)7. Water Slides8. Cross The River On Your Own (Live)9. Special (Live)10. The Zookeeper’s Boy (Live)
― michaellambert, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Not sure I want that, might just get the regular version.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 20 April 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Mine either.:(
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
The embedded stream here seems to work everywhere:
http://www.thefourohfive.com/news/article/stream-mew-s-new-album-142
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Oh, thanks! Will listen tonight.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 20 April 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
"Rows" is wonderful, yeah. On the fence about the rest so far, although I don't dislike anything.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
fuuuck the end of "Rows" needs to be at least 4 mins longer
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
holy shit @ 'rows'
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
despite starting the thread i never kept up with this guy. so his recent stuff is pretty good right?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 07:11 (nine years ago) link
this album's cool & yeah, mew have been stirred into action by our 10-minute songs poll
― young ruffian - sick banter (imago), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 07:40 (nine years ago) link
And the Glass Handed Kites and No More Stories are serious contenders for my favourite rock albums of the 21st century so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
Kites is the one I always go back to. Not crazy about the new one but will give it another shot. His sound is so saturated and compressed that it's difficult to listen to.
― calstars, Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I think that hits the nail on the head re one of the obstacles with this. Kites is my OPO too.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
i think this is their most song-oriented record since frengers except the songs are way more dense. they're all really great, though? like "witness" is kind of the perfect consolidated 3-minute mew song
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
Predictably, it has started sucking me in.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 24 April 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Do you listen to the whole thing at once, or allow yourself to skip around? I have a feeling the impact would be a lot greater if you force yourself to go the distance.
― calstars, Friday, 24 April 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm still listening to the fourohfive stream tbh, so I mostly put the whole thing on.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:18 (nine years ago) link
"making friends" is actual ecstasy
― uberweiss, Saturday, 25 April 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
thaaaaaaat guitaaaaaaaaaaaaar
"MY COMPLICATIONS"!!!!!i'm DEAD
― uberweiss, Saturday, 25 April 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
Making friends is great, maybe the best thing on here?
― calstars, Saturday, 25 April 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
for SUCH a long time i didn't KNOW if i'd find yousomeTHINGsomeTHINGcrying on the bathroom floooooooooor
― uberweiss, Saturday, 25 April 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
"making friends" = mew finally wrote a scritti politti song
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 April 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I love "Water Slides". Not sure what to make of the bass sound on "Making Friends".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 April 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I noticed a prominent guitar line on "Making Friends"? I like the melodies in "Clinging to a Bad Dream" a lot.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 April 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I noticed a prominent guitar line on "Making Friends"
it's that popping post-discoy guitar on the verses
uberweiss potentially referring to the hella bent notes in the bridge
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 April 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Ah.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
to be fair i have no idea what any instruments are but yeah the bit that comes in during the versesassuming i know what a verse is
― uberweiss, Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
No, you're right; I get what you were referring to. It's a memorable line; not sure it's my favourite sound, personally.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
"cross the river on your own" is just so gorgeous
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
I think that, listening casually,I had assumed that was a slapped/popped bass played in its high register because of the tone and popping playing style. Listening now, you're probably right. I watched a couple of live clips where that part seems to be left out altogether.xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
(or synth bass sound)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
i like this album a bunch but its been way overcompressed in mastering which bugs me a lot, it actually sounds better on my broken blown-out earbuds than my nice headphones since it prevents me from being able to hear all the instruments pulse in and out as they push each other out of the way
the songs are fantastic though
― ciderpress, Friday, 8 May 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
we're writing cursi-ivetoour signsour water slides
― uberweiss, Saturday, 16 May 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
it's alright nowanything you can wish for you can do
― ciderpress, Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
btw the mastering doesn't bother me as much anymore, funny how that works. probably my fav record of the year so far
― ciderpress, Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
yeah this is superb
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Friday, 22 May 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
it's like a whole album of 'white lips kissed'
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Friday, 22 May 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
sort of
Look forward to hearing this, are they still doing the cut bars thing?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 May 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
if they are it comes off as completely natural, i.e. i can't think of an example but that's because they're so well-integrated. will relisten and look out for it
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Saturday, 23 May 2015 09:58 (nine years ago) link
They slayed yesterday in Amsterdam. Fantastic show.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Sunday, 24 May 2015 11:16 (nine years ago) link
Hmm, I'm pissed off at myself because I'm really not sure about any of this on first listen, some of the tracks have these kinda suspect C*ldplay dynamics (Interview The Girls) I'm feeling there's not a lot that is harmonically rich enough, the twinkly bits aren't twinkly enough and the twists and turns that I like in Mew songs don't seem to be apparent at first, imma stick with it though.
― MaresNest, Monday, 25 May 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Werent some Coldplay and Mew members together in a band?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 25 May 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link