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Mew is a band from Denmark that makes IndiePop most of the time (in other cases, their music is... less definable). After releasing their first 2 albums on indie labels strictly in their home country, Mew were signed by Creator/EpicRecords in 2003, which handled the distribution of all their subsequent records worldwide.

Tired of bland imported pop in the early 90's and "the lack of a truly alternative scene in Denmark", they decided to help form one. Determined to not make predictable songs, Mew tried their best to make each song as different and interesting as possible (though still rooted in guitar rock for the most part). This is a tradition they carry on to this day.

The lineup consists of Jonas Bjerre (lead vocals), Bo Madsen (guitar), Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen (drums) and Johan Wohlert (bass). In 2006 the bassist left the band to spend more time with his family, and the band was a 3-piece until summer 2014, when they confirmed he was back on board. In the summer of 2015, Bo left the band for for the first time since its creation, although not necessarily forever. Until he returns, Mads Wegner will be playing with the trio on live shows.

They have an [[http://www.mewsite.com/ official website,]] by the way. And a ''[[http://www.mewx.info/ fan]]'' site as well.

Not to be confused with the legendary Franchise/{{Pokemon}} or the Music/{{Vocaloid}} character.

!!Discography:
* ''A Triumph for Man'' (1997) (later re-issued with a bonus CD)
* ''Half the World is Watching Me'' (2000) (same as above)
* ''Frengers'' (2003)
* ''And the Glass Handed Kites'' (2005)
* ''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'' (2009)
* ''[[LuckyCharmsTitle + -]]'' (2015)
* ''Visuals'' (2017)
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!! The band provides examples of the following:
* BackToFront: "Cartoons and Macramé Wounds" attempts to subvert the expected song structure by beginning with a huge climax, and slowly dismantling the song from there. It still comes to a lovely crescendo near the end, however.
** "New Terrain" also plays with this, hiding ''an entire song'' within the backmasked instruments and vocals heard throughout. It's a bit disorienting to listen to in either direction.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: The original album version of "She Came Home for Christmas" ended with a PrecisionFStrike (see below). When it was released as a single in 1997, this line was instead turned into a TitleDrop, and this lyrical arrangement has stuck ever since.
* BrokenRecord: "The Zookeeper's Boy".
* BSide: Of the many singles the band has released, most are very tough to find [[CrackIsCheaper and afford once you find them.]]
* ConceptAlbum: ''And the Glass Handed Kites'' is centered around the theme of fear and nightmares.
** "Apocalypso" from the same album is reportedly about the fear of death.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''And The Glass Handed Kites'', depending on how you interpret it.
* DownerEnding: "Louise Louisa" may well be the DespairEventHorizon in musical form.
* DramaticWind: Their performance of "Snow Brigade" at the 2003 Danish Music Awards. It's in playback (for obvious reasons), but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gp_iNiqZW4 awesome]].
* EpicRocking: "Cross the River on Your Own" lasts 7:28.
** "Comforting Sounds" is almost 9 minutes long.
** "Rows" tops out at nearly 11.
** And then there's ''And the Glass Handed Kites'', at least if you buy into the band's description of the album as a single, continuous song.
* FaceOnTheCover: Sort of; the artwork for ''+ -'' features the band members incarnated as caricatured, anthropomorphic eggshells, something of which has been apart of the band's art theme since ''No More Stories'', and is lampshaded by the title of their GreatestHitsAlbum, ''Eggs Are Funny''.
** ''And the Glass Handed Kites'' shows the actual band members' faces, but they're all garishly crashing into one another and shattering.
** The cover for ''Visuals'' has Jonas Bjerre's face covered covered up by a kaleidescope light.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The transition from "Special" to "The Zookeeper's Boy" on ''And the Glass Handed Kites'' is so close that it's near impossible to immediately notice when one song ends and the other begins.
** Most of ''Kites'' is like this, in fact. The album could be seen as a continuous, extremely long song, though there is a rather long breather between "White Lips Kissed" and the final track "Louise Louisa".
* HiddenTrack: As mentioned in BackToFront, the entirety of "New Terrain" is a whole other track when played backwards. It's officially titled "Nervous".
* IndecipherableLyrics: Sometimes. The lyrics are usually clear enough, but you're bound to find parts of their songs where it's quite hard to understand what's being sung.
* LuckyCharmsTitle: ''+ -''
* LyricalDissonance:
** "156" seems to be sung by a stalker and has some slightly unsettling lines, but the song itself is very calm.
** "Hawaii" has a very cheerful tune but the lyrics are quite sad.
** "She Came Home for Christmas" is a soft ballad about a woman coming home from Christmas and reuniting with somebody who has either broken her heart in the past, or outright assaulted her. The original 1997 version is much less ambiguous about this.
* LyricalShoehorn: "Satellites"
--> ''I wanna breathe in a sunlight beam''\\
''I wanna be with a girl like she''
* ObsessionSong: "156", and possibly "Snow Brigade" and "Special".
* PrecisionFStrike: Combined with WhamLine in the original version of "She Came Home for Christmas": "Don't touch her there, where he fucked her."
* RearrangeTheSong: ''Frengers'' was their first international release and the sessions for it produced 50% new material and 50% rearranged songs from their first two albums.
* RunningGag: A minor one, overly long fade-outs (or lack thereof). Most apparent on ''City Voices'' and ''White Lips Kissed'', with a piano chord held down, allowed to fade naturally (for anywhere between 10 and 20 seconds).
* SavageWolves: The dark and dissonant instrumental "Circuitry of the Wolf" seems to be about this.
* {{Scatting}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_dRFHG2Bx8 No Shadow Kick.]] What the song has to do with shadows, or kicking for that matter, is unclear.
** A "No Shadow Kick" is a martial arts technique. [[GeniusBonus The gibberish in the song sounds vaguely like Chinese, so the band probably chose that title hoping someone would get the humor behind it]].
* SurrealMusicVideo: Most of their videos qualify in some way.
** ''Visuals'' takes a kaleidoscope theme that ramps up the surrealness.
* TranslatedCoverVersion: They did a version of their own "White Lips Kissed", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIE2p5XABnU in]] [[GratuitousJapanese Japanese!]].
* TitleTrack: Played with on their fifth album; "Hawaii Dream" is not the name of the album, but its ''lyrics'' are. This also makes the entire song one big TitleDrop.
* UncommonTime:
** "Am I Wry? No" has an ending in 13/4.
** "156" has a refrain in 13/4.
** "Hawaii" has 11/4 choruses.
** "Vaccine" has an 11/4 ending.
** "Repeaterbeater" has choruses in 22/4.
** "Intermezzo 2" includes 10/4.
** "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy" is all over the place.
* WordSaladLyrics: Their songs have pretty abstract and random lyrics. WordOfGod says this is intentional, as they think straightforward lyrics would be less interesting.

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