On Thursday night, Mew, Copenhagen’s angelic-voiced earnest dream rock trio will pay a visit to Seattle in support of this summer’s lengthily-titled 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]. Despite the dour and long–but still-tweetable–title, the album finds the band a member short, borderline happy, occasionally danceable, and occasionally dabbling in singsong autotune. That said, it’s more of a modest detour from on the spaced out guitar fog, glittery falsettos, and stormy prog rumbling counterpoints that you came to know and love with And the Glass Handed Kites.
At shows, the band provides projected visual accompaniments to help transport the audience into their intergalactic dreams and cosmic mental voyages. Attack dogs chase through the rain, tiny stuffed animals float through woodlands while playing tiny instruments, creepy dolls, or just swirling color saturated screensavers. While I’ve probably done a fine job of making this all sound unsufferably pretentious, it’s actually all that you’d want from an indie rock show with a few bells, a couple whistles, and three affable Danes who are bound to be swarmed with admirers after the encore.
Want them to warm you up on Thursday night on Neumo’s dime? We have a pair of tickets to give to one of you loyal Sunbreak readers. Tweet a hypnotic and Mew-inspired alternate album title to @thesunbreak. We’ll pick a winner on Wednesday night.
- Mew plays Thursday, December 10, at Neumo’s. Doors open at 8 p.m. and tickets are $14 (ticketswest).