Mew - No More Stories (2009)

[soundscapemn]

Finally some concrete info!

www.mewx.info/wp/

We have information on No More Stories. Yes, that is the official title of Mew’s fifth album - those who have heard it, call it a MASTERPIECE (we knew that already). The album will be released on August 19th 2009 in Finland (and most likely this is the same date for all of Scandinavia) - it will also be digitally available two days prior (August 17th). But fear not, Mew will release an EP before that. The extended play will be out on July 1st - just before the summer festivals.

Remember, you heard it here first - we’ll be back shortly to bring you more extensive information about the album.

The first single from No More Stories is called Repeater Beater and it premieres in Finland on May 29th at YleX-radio channel at 9:10am and it plays exclusively during that whole weekend. This is supposedly the date in other Nordic countries as well. You may buy the single digitally on June 1st.

In addition to Repeater Beater, the EP (released on July 1st) contains one new song from the album, two live-performances and a b-side. The album is produced by Rich Costey who has previously worked with Muse, Glasvegas and Franz Ferdinand among others. Plus - as we know - he is the man behind Mew’s Frengers (2003) as well.

[ryan]

Should be good.

I'll be seeing them with Janes Addiction/Nine Inch Nails at the O2 soon. Yay me.

[soundscapemn]

lucky you!..I could go to p-fork to see them, but don't really have the $ or desire to pay that much to travel 7+hours. I'm already going to Atlanta for ProgPowerUSA.

Hopefully they'll be in my town or the States again later in the year. Word is they will play the entire new album.

[Lawrie]

Excellent news, really looking forward to the new album!

[blondeambassador]

Very excited about this, hoping they'll schedule some UK tour dates of their own soon too, would love to see them live again.

[soundscapemn]

well the cover is nothing to write-home about, but if the music is good of course it won't matter.

August 25th US Release

pitchfork.com/news/35346-new-mew-album-details-extremely-long-title-crazy-tracklist/



Epic Danish rockers Mew don't do anything halfway. They make big music with big guitars and big vocals that suggest nothing less than the beautiful, horrible end of the world. And they're readying their follow-up to 2006 breakout LP And the Glass-Handed Kites for release August 25 in the U.S., August 24 in the UK, and August 17 in Scandinavia via Columbia. (That mutated circus clown/butterfly thing is the cover.) And, going with the prog-like scope, the album title isn't a word or even a group of words as much as it's a poem:

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

Yep, that's the album title. (How about we just call it No More Stories... for the time being?) As if that wasn't crazy enough, the tracklisting features tiny photos of the same circus clown/butterfly shown on the cover as the titles for two tracks. Yes, the track titles are pictures, not words.

Mew hit the road this summer, touring with Nine Inch Nails in Europe and playing the Pitchfork Music Festival in July.

Check out the No More Stories... tracklist below.


No More Stories...:

01 New Terrain
02 Introducing Palace Players
03 Beach
04 Repeaterbeater
05 Silas the Magic Car
06 Cartoons and Macramé Wounds
07 A Dream
08 Hawaii
09 Vaccine
10 Tricks of the Trade
11 Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy
12 Reprise

[blondeambassador]

I actually like the cover...I quite like the extended title as well...though it's obvious that the title really is 'No More Stories' and I'm sure that's how they intended to be known.
Interesting...can't wait to hear it!

[Lawrie]

Haha, those jokers with the title! It's actually kinda irritating when bands do those massive long album/song titles: the really long ones seem to cause havoc with the meta-data reading in some mp3 players when you rip the CD to your digital music collection - bands should be more considerate of the foibles of modern technology when they name the work they've spent so long creating!

I've got a song by a HOTS side-project called Thee Dust Rackets where the title is so long it causes problems reading it on some mp3 players/programs, and I think Fiona Apple released some album a few years back with a title that was a big old paragraph that filled the entire cover (I haven't got that album, just my recollection of seeing it advertised). When will these bands learn?!

[ryan]

new single: pitchfork.com/forkcast/12926-introducing-palace-players/

[soundscapemn]

new single is Ace.

No More Stories EP



1. Introducing Palace Players (4:46)

2. Repeater Beater (2:31)

3. Owl (B-side) (1:18)

4. Start (B-side) (2:00)

5. Swimmer’s Chant (B-side) (3:25)

Total length is only about 14 minutes and the EP will be released on June 29th. Amazon has 30-second audio clips from the songs.

[ant]

For those that are interested and don't know. Mew are headlining at the ICA on July 16 the only confirmed headlining gig so far this year. Tickets are available Fri from SeeTickets althouth there is a pre-sale at www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp ... 51&userid={73633E68-8FB6-45C4-A3AC-870176FF4DD0}&filler1=see&filler2=MEW. Personally I can't wait.

[blondeambassador]

Booked it....thanks for that, hadn't heard about it otherwise! Very excited.

[soundscapemn]

www.spinner.com/2009/06/25/mew-repeaterbeater-free-mp3-download/

[the dark fourth]

Should be seeing them in Chicago 3 days after you guys in London...lucky me...

[AlExMachina]

I'm loving the EP on spotify actually (particularly "Introducing Palace Players" - a bit math rock / Justice in my mind for some reason. Don't think I can justify that, just a feeling).