And the Glass Handed Kites [Import]

Product Description
Producing dark and atmospheric songs, Mew posses a graceful beauty and create an epic sound with strikingly memorable tunes over which delicate vocals soar to angelic heights. Two years after their award-winning debut album Frengers wowed the critics, the Danish four-piece's follow-up, And The Glass Handed Kites is the fourth album for the dream-pop four piece but only the second to be available to a worldwide audience. Mew And The Glass Handed Kites features 14 total tracks including 'Apocalypso', 'Chinaberry Tree', 'A Dark Design', 'White Lips Kissed', 'The Zookeeper's Boy', 'Small Ambulance' and more. BMG. 2005.

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And the Glass Handed Kites [Import]

Average customer rating: Flat Out AWESOME Band lovely Deserves more props best of 2006? Circuitry of the wolf

And the Glass Handed Kites Mew Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Denmark | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Frengers Frengers Yellow House Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks) Carnavas ASIN: B000G7PNB8 Release Date: 2006-07-25

Tracks:

1. Circuitry Of The Wolf
2. Chinaberry Tree
3. Why Are You Looking Grave?
4. Fox Club
5. Apocalypso
6. Special
7. The Zookeeper's Boy
8. A Dark Design
9. Saviours Of Jazz Ballet (Fear Me, December)
10. An Envoy To The Open Fields
11. Small Ambulance
12. The Seeing Rain Weeps For You (Uda Pruda)
13. White Lipts Kissed
14. Louise Louisa

Customer Reviews:

Flat Out AWESOME Band.......2007-06-04

I don't care what anyone says or over-ANALyzes to the contrary, this band is flat out AWESOME. One of the best rock bands ever in my opinionated opinion, and I hope they keep going for a long time to come and are still able to maintain and expand upon what they've managed to do with their first two releases. Highly inspiring, fresh, brilliant and unpredictable.

Some of their songs start off strange and uncertain, only to suddenly erupt into surprising clarity of vision. And just like any great band over the last 20 years, they take the best of what has already been done and elevate it to even higher levels. There's no way I can listen to songs like "Snow Brigade" and "Apocalypso" and stay seated in my chair for long. Give them a chance and they will rock your world in a big way.
Obviously, I highly recommend both of their CDs.

That's my brief, highly enthusiastic and emotive, if rather non-informative and non-intellectual, two cents.

lovely.......2007-05-29

I came out of my hiatus from music lately for Mew. Kind of late on this one mainly because I have been pretty bored with what is considered good these days. I am very much a "download and don't buy" kind of guy, but i actually BOUGHT this cd. It's pristine, bright, clean, enchanting, divine and a bunch of other antonyms for what my life is. This isn't perfection. There are some songs that just aren't as magnificent as the others, but even those are lovely to experience some how. Even in mediocrity (which is not often) it is still a pleasure to listen to. This band is very unique without having a gimmick or an affectation of some sort. With that being said for me it would be hard to listen to over and over in the sense that it would be hard to eat pomegranate every day. However, if you asked me if I liked pomegranate i would tell you that I LOVE it.

Deserves more props.......2007-05-27

I've lived with "Frengers" and this for some time, generally love it, and noticed I haven't said anything about it. Not that the world needs to hear from me to be complete, but there are only 12 reviews here and that's not right. Considering all the absolute [...] that gets pressed into CD's each day, and considering this is easily in the top 10 of my playlists for the last year, a little more applause is appropriate. When Mew played Seattle this spring they had to settle for a small club, and that's way out of scale for what they represent.

Not that this is a uniform effort. Their sound is new, really new, and when it works it kills, but they have the disease of varying tempos common to young bands who are striving for importance, producing songs that appear to be assemblies of individual riffs. Judging by their interviews they think this CD is a crowning achievement, but it's really only exceptional in fits and starts. But hey, they're young and fresh, they have time to grow and allow maturity to effect their work, starting with learning to live with some pain when the world doesn't appreciate everything they do.

If the principals can make a living from doing this, one has the feeling that 2 or 3 CD's down the road they might make something truly remarkable. It's worth supporting and celebrating, buy this CD for what's here, but do it also to provide some encouragement to the band. I can't think of another CD I'm looking forward to more than their next. Get to work boys, you only think this is your best music.

best of 2006?.......2007-02-17

I'm enjoying the heck out of this album. Loved it at first listen, love it even more after 30+ plays. Just blasted it coming down the freeway late at night, what a trip! It's solid from the symphonic sound, grandiose, to the high voices and lyrics. Solid also in the sense that it's a whole. The songs merge into one another. Very beautiful music to my ears. I've thoroughly checked the cream of 2006, for me this is the "creme de la creme". The first song builds up the sound as if they were looking for it, they establish it with the second , from there on it's, one beautiful song after another, to the end. The last song is poignant, a highlight of its own. They do remind me of YES, Cocteau Twins and Slowdive, all bands I love.

Circuitry of the wolf.......2007-01-29

Mew are a powerful band, blending hard rock, prog and indierock with a sweeping hand, and turning out expansive music that sounds like nothing else.

And the Danish band not disappoint in "And the Glass Handed Kites," which takes the style of their third album "Frengers" and expands on it. The result? A brilliant, shimmering piece of rock'n'roll that sounds like nothing -- and everything -- else.

It opens with a soft whine, some hesitant drums and tuning guitar, as if the band is just starting a live set. Then they gradually swing into a solid, ringing guitar riff interspersed with blasting bass and soft shimmers of keyboard. No lyrics. Except for a few angel-rock cries, they don't need 'em.

That changes with the swirling "Chinaberry Tree," with Jonas Bjerre singing about a passionate love that is disrupted: "As my first love said to me:/"I don't care. I'm not there"/So that I could not sleep/My whole being was falling apart/So that I soon cried out: "Dear friends, hold me!"

From there on, Mew tear through other sorts of music: thunderous hard rock, shivering proggy pop, riff-heavy indierock, epic anthems of stormy sound, and silvery sweeps of eerie balladry. What's more, the songs all flow into each other with hardly any pauses, until it sounds like one enormous song.

Breakout albums are usually a bit more commercial than this one -- although the songs can be catchy, there aren't any real singles, and you'd be hard-pressed to find something so intricate and intelligent on MTV.

And their music is what makes them so brilliant -- ringing, driving riffs, sharp percussion and thunderlike bass spill over the circling melodies. They're softened by soaring organ and keyboard (and a bit of sparkly piano in one song), which add an almost transcendent quality to songs like the epic "Louise Louisa." Rockwise, this is like having a religious experience.

At first listen, Bjerre's light voice sounds rather ordinary. But as the album wears on, he sounds hopeful and slightly forlorn, as he sings songs of exquisite strangeness. "Are you, my lady, are you?... In a submersible I can hardly breathe/As it takes me inside, so the light sings/Answer me truthfully/Do the clouds kiss you/With meringue-coloured hair?"

From spun-glass ballads to epic hard-rock, Mew twines together all sorts of styles into their own art-rock masterpiece. Absolutely stunning.

Average customer rating: best of 2006 Flying Kites Dream Pop/Shoegaze Shoegaze? No. Mew seems to be walking a tightrope

And the Glass Handed Kites Mew Manufacturer: Sony / Bmg Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Denmark | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Frengers No Balance Palace It's Never Been Like That The Trials of Van Occupanther She Came Home for Christmas/That Time on the Ledge ASIN: B000AV47XK Release Date: 2005-10-18

Tracks:

1. Circuitry of the Wolf
2. Chinaberry Tree
3. Why Are You Looking Grave?
4. Fox Club
5. Apocalypso
6. Special
7. Zookeeper's Boy
8. Dark Design
9. Saviours of Jazz Ballet (Fear Me, December)
10. Envoy to the Open Fields
11. Small Ambulance
12. Seething Rain Weeps for You (Uda Pruda)
13. White Lips Kissed
14. Louise Louisa

Album Description

Producing dark and atmospheric songs, Mew posses a graceful beauty and create an epic sound with strikingly memorable tunes over which delicate vocals soar to angelic heights. Two years after their award-winning debut album Frengers wowed the critics, the Danish four-piece's follow-up, And The Glass Handed Kites is the fourth album for the dream-pop four piece but only the second to be available to a worldwide audience. Mew And The Glass Handed Kites features 14 total tracks including 'Apocalypso', 'Chinaberry Tree', 'A Dark Design', 'White Lips Kissed', 'The Zookeeper's Boy', 'Small Ambulance' and more. BMG. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

best of 2006.......2007-02-25

My favorite band these days. Beautiful concept album, one haunting melody after another, not one dud. Reminiscent of YES, but original and modern. DO NOT MISS THIS GEM.

Flying Kites.......2007-02-04

Mew are a powerful band, blending hard rock, prog and indierock with a sweeping hand, and turning out expansive music that sounds like nothing else.

And the Danish band not disappoint in "And the Glass Handed Kites," which takes the style of their third album "Frengers" and expands on it. The result? A brilliant, shimmering piece of rock'n'roll that sounds like nothing -- and everything -- else.

It opens with a soft whine, some hesitant drums and tuning guitar, as if the band is just starting a live set. Then they gradually swing into a solid, ringing guitar riff interspersed with blasting bass and soft shimmers of keyboard. No lyrics. Except for a few angel-rock cries, they don't need 'em.

That changes with the swirling "Chinaberry Tree," with Jonas Bjerre singing about a passionate love that is disrupted: "As my first love said to me:/"I don't care. I'm not there"/So that I could not sleep/My whole being was falling apart/So that I soon cried out: "Dear friends, hold me!"

From there on, Mew tear through other sorts of music: thunderous hard rock, shivering proggy pop, riff-heavy indierock, epic anthems of stormy sound, and silvery sweeps of eerie balladry. What's more, the songs all flow into each other with hardly any pauses, until it sounds like one enormous song.

Breakout albums are usually a bit more commercial than this one -- although the songs can be catchy, there aren't any real singles, and you'd be hard-pressed to find something so intricate and intelligent on MTV.

And their music is what makes them so brilliant -- ringing, driving riffs, sharp percussion and thunderlike bass spill over the circling melodies. They're softened by soaring organ and keyboard (and a bit of sparkly piano in one song), which add an almost transcendent quality to songs like the epic "Louise Louisa." Rockwise, this is like having a religious experience.

At first listen, Bjerre's light voice sounds rather ordinary. But as the album wears on, he sounds hopeful and slightly forlorn, as he sings songs of exquisite strangeness. "Are you, my lady, are you?... In a submersible I can hardly breathe/As it takes me inside, so the light sings/Answer me truthfully/Do the clouds kiss you/With meringue-coloured hair?"

From spun-glass ballads to epic hard-rock, Mew twines together all sorts of styles into their own art-rock masterpiece. Absolutely stunning.

Dream Pop/Shoegaze.......2006-10-25

this is in response to the person who said that Mew doesn't sound like MBV etc..

Mew do actually sound like all of those bands you mentioned, they just take it in a different, more updated direction. listen to the Ride song OX4 and tell me you don't hear the similarities between that song and Comforting Sounds.

it's Dream Pop for the new millenium. like... Sigur Ros, Mogwai, M83, Amusement Parks On Fire... etc, etc. they are all, in my opinion, updating that old Creation Records, 4AD sound.

anyhow, Mew are an amazing band. check them out.

Shoegaze? No........2006-10-05

I've given this album (and Frengers) many listens. I've never thought of Mew as sounding like a shoegaze band. For anyone who would be put off by the notion that this album sounds anything like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, or Ride, I'd like to make a few points.

This is pop-rock with an obvious prog influence. "An Envoy to Open Fields" sounds like something Genesis would do (Gabriel era, not Collins).

The music is often a little haunting. The synthesizers and vocals are often ethereal and dreamy. These attributes are present in the shogaze genre. However, these attributes are also present in prog rock genre.

For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of both genres.

Mew seems to be walking a tightrope.......2006-09-12

The Danish quartet Mew may yet be onto something potentially great. Certainly, "And the Glass Handed Kites" offers many transcendent moments when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. In those moments, the soaring vocal choruses, guitar riffs, rippling bass, and pumped up percussion break through a cloying veneer of overproduction and nagging strings.

Mew seems to be walking a tightrope, part power, part emo, but the strength of the songs and performances win out. Singer Jonas Bjerre, guitarist Bo Madsen, bassist Johan Wohlert, and drummer Silas Graae still have plenty of time to hook up with some producer such as Brian Eno or Daniel Lanois who could shift them to the next level, diminish the strings, and focus on the core elements that drive the sound.

If you are like me, the awful CD booklet with an unreadable italic san-serif type and poorly rendered artwork does little to tempt the curious. Let's hope for improvements on Mew's next release.

Average customer rating:

And the Glass Handed Kites ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000DZEUDU Release Date: 2005-09-27

Album Description

Producing dark and atmospheric songs, Mew posses a graceful beauty and create an epic sound with strikingly memorable tunes over which delicate vocals soar to angelic heights. Two years after their award-winning debut album Frengers wowed the critics, the Danish four-piece's follow-up, And The Glass Handed Kites is the fourth album for the dream-pop four piece but only the second to be available to a worldwide audience. Mew And The Glass Handed Kites features 14 total tracks including 'Apocalypso', 'Chinaberry Tree', 'A Dark Design', 'White Lips Kissed', 'The Zookeeper's Boy', 'Small Ambulance' and more. BMG. 2005.

Average customer rating:

And the Glass Handed Kites Mew Manufacturer: Sony Bmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Denmark | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000F6IFIS Release Date: 2006-03-20

Tracks:

1. Circuitry of the Wolf
2. Chinaberry Tree
3. Why Are You Looking Grave?
4. Fox Club
5. Apocalypso
6. Special
7. Zookeeper's Boy
8. Dark Design
9. Saviours of Jazz Ballet (Fear Me, December)
10. Envoy to the Open Fields
11. Small Ambulance
12. Seething Rain Weeps for You (Uda Pruda)
13. White Lips Kissed
14. Louise Louisa

Album Details

The Fourth Album from the Quartet of Danes is their Most Ambitious Yet as They Break Through to a Higher Plane of Artistry. The Variety of Instruments Employed and the Sheer Enormity of the Sound Put them in a Class with Sigur Ros, the Mars Volta, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Muse and Others who Consistently Try to Push Rock's Boundaries and Progressiveness.

Average customer rating:

The Zookeeper's Boy EP ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000I49DXI

Product Description

1) Apocalypso 2) Special 3) The Zookeeper's Boy 4) Am I Wry? No 5) Comforting Sounds

Average customer rating: Best CD of 2005, and two bonus tracks make it worth the import price.

And the Glass Handed Kites Mew Manufacturer: Sony/Epic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Denmark | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000A3H636 Release Date: 2005-09-14

Tracks:

1. The Circuitry Of The Wolf
2. Chinaberry Tree
3. Why Are You Looking Grave
4. Fox Cub
5. Apocalypso
6. Special
7. The Zookeeper's Boy
8. A Dark Design
9. Saviours Of Jazz Ballet
10. An Envoy To The Open Fields
11. Small Ambulance
12. The Seething Rain Weeps For You
13. White Lips Kissed
14. Louise Louisa
15. Forever And Ever
16. Shiroi Kuchibiruno Izanai (White Lips Kissed)(Japanese Version)

Album Description

Japanese pressing of Mew's 2nd album features two bonus tracks. Sony. 2005.

Album Details

The Fourth Album from the Quartet of Danes is their Most Ambitious Yet as They Break Through to a Higher Plane of Artistry. The Variety of Instruments Employed and the Sheer Enormity of the Sound Put them in a Class with Sigur Ros, the Mars Volta, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Muse and Others who Consistently Try to Push Rock's Boundaries and Progressiveness. This Edition Includes Two Bonus Tracks: "Forever and Ever" and a Japanese Exclusive Version of "White Lips Kissed".

Customer Reviews:

Best CD of 2005, and two bonus tracks make it worth the import price........2007-01-14

I bought this CD in a whim at the Virgin Records Megastore in NYC by recommendation. I'd never listened to the band before, but I've heard their praises. I knew I was taking a risk buying a disk from an unfamiliar band for over $30 but I was loaded at the time. As soon as I was able to access my CD player on the bus en route back to my grandmother's house I popped this in and my eyes popped open.

I was startled at how good this was, first things I noticed, the singer has a cool voice, some of the songs are really catchy, this is amazing. I had it on repeat spin for weeks after and I still listen to it daily. I've never heard anything quite like this before, but I liked it. Thanks to Mew I've now explored more alternative rock in their vein, such as Serena Maneesh. U2 hailed this as the best of 05' and I can hear some of their influence in this. I can also see the Coldplay comparisons, but Mew isn't a cure for insomnia.
The standout tracks for me were "Special", "Apocalypso", "White Lips Kissed", "Zookeeper's Boy", "Why are you looking so grave?", "Chinaberry Tree", "A Dark Design", "Saviors of Jazz Ballet", "An Envoy to Open Fields", "The Seething Rain Weeps for You", "Louise Louisa" and the Japanese version of "White Lips Kissed(Shiroi Kuchibiruno Izanai)". However this is an album you have to listen from beginning to end to get the whole jist of it and to experience it's greatness in it's entirety. This was the best purchase of last Summer and I look forward to treasuring this for years to come. Thank you Mew for the amazing music, and thank you Virgin Records NYC for having such a great musical selection.

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