Mew's newest EP: No More Stories just came out the other day (June 30th, I believe). It's got two tracks from the upcoming LP (Introducing Palace Players & Repeaterbeater) as well as three more B-Sides.

1. Introducing Palace Players
2. Repeaterbeater
3. Owl
4. Start
5. Swimmer's Chant


You can listen to Introducing Palace Players & Repeaterbeater on their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mew

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

Swimmer's Chant and Reapeaterbeater are fantastic, with the layered harmonies and high-pitched vocals I've come to expect from Mew. There seems to be a bit more of an emphasis on the percussion based on this EP, which is kind of cool. I don't really like "Owl," it feels out of place and too synthetic. I'm just hoping they're not trying to be too "proggy" with this whole LONG ALBUM TITLE. Personally, I like the off-beat guitars in "Introducting Palace Players" but I've seen a few people complaining about that being too GAY or w/e.

I'm really looking forward to the full release, as it will hopefully not have random B-sides tracks interspersed. Let me know what you think if you get a chance to listen.

i downloaded it a few days ago on recommendation from DS and I thought it was pretty bleh but I've never been big into Mew in the past either, I'll try it again some other time though I believe, as I really only listened to it through like once.

FUCK YES. like you i am pretty 'gay for mew' so this is good news

swimmer's chant sounds good. i will probably have to download buy this.

For anyone who is interested, you can order a physical copy from RecordShopX, which I believe is based in Finland.   5,90 € - which I think is pretty cheap for you finns..............

I live in the US and with shipping it cost me $12.64, which is acceptable, I think.

Introducing Palace Players definitely grew on me. The first 50 seconds were kind of "uhhhhh....???" but the rest of it is quite awesome.

yeah I like this a lot especially song #1

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AHHHHH wher e is  it . i am looking on what.cd right now. i just got the EP in the mail last week and now AHHH this is too soon

i see it , its up on what.cd i dunno what you're talkin about

yeah i found it. i was just panicking. i cant believe it leaked so soon. it's not coming out till august 25th

sweet

idk I think this is pretty cool, New Terrain played backwards

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yeah mew just rocks

I've pre-ordered the album and can't wait for it to come out. I was a massive fan of the band's last 2 albums and I really liked the EP so expectations are pretty high. This is probably the album I've been most excited about all year. I know it's leaked but I can't get excited about downloading some files and shoving them in iTunes, I find it really takes something away from the experience of a band releasing a new album. Glad to know that those who've downloaded it have enjoyed it though!

yeah there is no way you will be disappointed.  I hate Mew and I loved this album so I am kind of okay with them now.

After listening to the backwards version of New Terrain though, when I listen to it regularly, it seems really obvious that the background vocals are backwards.  Like it almost hard to listen to now though without thinking of the song the other way. 

I listened to this album twice and I don't seem to get it. It's just not for me I don't think.

hahaha dammmn. i swear to god the first time i heard new terrain i thought to myself "i can't tell if this would sound better forward or backwards"

then i went in to audacity and reversed it and listened to it. both versions sounded pretty good, but i couldn't make out any of the backwards lyrics.

ed, if you couldn't get in to this album, i definitely recommend you get Mew's "Frengers" album



edit: also, i'm going to a Mew concert this Saturday in Boston FUCK YEA