And The Glass Handed Kites

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Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 53:55

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Amazing!

Graywalker

I just discovered this band and I think this is their best album. Shifting, complex melodies, great arrangements. An album that gets better with every listen.

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this is what death cab for cutie should sound like

ernie-c

these guys are light years ahead.

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Best album I own

boombox13

This is, without a doubt, my favorite album of all time. Mew is my favorite band and this album is the reason why. If I'm not mistaken, last time I checked my Last.fm, this album had at least twice as many plays as my second most played album (which happens to be Frengers, also by Mew).

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Mew's best

danny_boy0

This is album has a sober feel to it. The drums pulse intensely. The bass is overdriven and provides a link between melody and rhythm so well. The guitars provide a framework with a reluctant guidance while the vocals are high pitched and moving.

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Mew-riffic!

carlosdev

I first discovered this Danish band through the video for "The Zookeeper's Boy," a delightfully etherial pop song. After acquiring this album, "Chinaberry Tree," "Apocalypso" and "White Lips Kissed" similarly wormed their way into my hearts. Lush and densely orchestrated, there isn't a weak song on the album. Trust me, this is a keeper!

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Danish quartet Mew’s dense and occasionally difficult And the Glass Handed Kites is old-fashioned only in the sense that it’s meant to be eaten in a single sitting. This is not a single-driven record — though “Special,” with its bouncy, moody chorus and octave vocal delivery, sounds like an emission from a time machine parked dead center within the heydays of early-’90s alternative rock — rather, it’s a single organism. Kites takes the wisdom and volatility of the Delgados (“Chinaberry Tree”), the sonic scope of Sigur Rós (“White Lips Kissed”), and the angular guitar attack of early Ride and Dinosaur Jr. (“Circuitry of the Wolf”) and melds them all into a cathartic post-rock epic that’s so electrifying and unpredictable that it’s almost impossible to take in with one or two listens. Fans of OK Computer-era Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine, and Disintegration-era Cure will find And the Glass Handed Kites one of the most breathtaking things to come along since the dawn of the dream pop/post-punk genres themselves. – James Christopher Monger

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