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* BackToFront: "Cartoons and Macrame 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.
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* BackToFront: "Cartoons and Macrame 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.
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* HiddenTrack: As mentioned in BackToFront, the entirety of "New Terrain" is a whole other track when played backwards. It's officially titled "Nervous".
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Albums so far:
* ''1997: A Triumph for Man'' (later re-issued with a bonus CD)
* ''2000: Half the World Is Watching Me'' (same as above)
* ''2003: Frengers''
* ''2005: And the Glass Handed Kites''
* ''2009: [[OverlyLongTitle 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]]''
* ''2015: [[LuckyCharmsTitle + -]]''
* ''1997: A Triumph for Man'' (later re-issued with a bonus CD)
* ''2000: Half the World Is Watching Me'' (same as above)
* ''2003: Frengers''
* ''2005: And the Glass Handed Kites''
* ''2009: [[OverlyLongTitle 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]]''
* ''2015: [[LuckyCharmsTitle + -]]''
!!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)
* ''[[OverlyLongTitle 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)
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* 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.
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** "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.
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* BackToFront: "Cartoons and Macrame 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.
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* DownerEnding: "Louise Louisa" may well be the DespairEventHorizon in musical form.
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** "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.
** 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.
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** ''And the Glass Handed Kites'' shows the actual band members' faces, but they're all garishly crashing into one another and shattering.
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** 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".
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** Humorously inverted by their next album, ''+ -''.
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* 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''.
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* 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.
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* 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]].
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--> ''I wanna breathe in a sunligh[[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable -ting]]''\\
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--> ''I wanna breathe in a sunligh[[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable -ting]]''\\sunlight beam''\\
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* LyricalShoehorn: "Satellites"
--> ''I wanna breathe in a sunligh[[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable -ting]]''\\
''I wanna be with a girl like she''
--> ''I wanna breathe in a sunligh[[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable -ting]]''\\
''I wanna be with a girl like she''
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A band from Denmark that makes alternative rock most of the time (in other cases, their music is... [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly less definable]]). After releasing their first 2 albums on an indie label strictly in home country, Mew were signed by Sony in 2003, which handled the distribution of all their subsequent records worldwide.
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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.
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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.
2014, when they confirmed he was back on board.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''And The Glass Handed Kites'', depending on how you interpret it.
* LuckyCharmsTitle: ''+ -''
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* OverlyLongTitle: Their fifth album's title.
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* OverlyLongTitle: Their fifth album's title.title, often shortened to ''No More Stories...''.
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* ''2015: a new album, this time not released under Sony''
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* ''2015: a new album, this time not released under Sony''
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Their drummer Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Seriously.
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* RearrangeTheSong: ''Frengers'' is their first international release and features completely new songs plus some rearranged songs from their first two albums.
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* BSide: Of the many singles the band has released, most are very tough to find [[CrackIsCheaper and afford if you do find them.]]
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* BSide: Of the many singles the band has released, most are very tough to find [[CrackIsCheaper and afford if once you do find them.]]
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* OverlyLongTitle: Album #5.
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* OverlyLongTitle: Album #5.Their fifth album's title.
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* 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.
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** 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]].
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Not to be confused with the legendary ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.
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Not to be confused with the legendary ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.Franchise/{{Pokemon}} or the Music/{{Vocaloid}} character.
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Not the Legendary ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.
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Not to be confused with the legendary ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.
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Not the Legendary ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.
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* WordSaladLyrics: Their songs have pretty abstract and random lyrics. WordOfGod says this is intentional, as they think straighforward lyrics would be less interesting.
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* WordSaladLyrics: Their songs have pretty abstract and random lyrics. WordOfGod says this is intentional, as they think straighforward straightforward lyrics would be less interesting.
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** "Apocalypso" from the same album is reportedly about the fear of death.
* 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.
* ObsessionSong: "156", and possibly "Snow Brigade" and "Special".
* ObsessionSong: "156", and possibly "Snow Brigade" and "Special".
* SavageWolves: The dark and dissonant instrumental "Circuitry of the Wolf" seems to be about this.
* SurrealMusicVideo: Most of their videos qualify in some way.
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** "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy" is all over the place.
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** "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy" is all over the place.place.
* WordSaladLyrics: Their songs have pretty abstract and random lyrics. WordOfGod says this is intentional, as they think straighforward lyrics would be less interesting.
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* WordSaladLyrics: Their songs have pretty abstract and random lyrics. WordOfGod says this is intentional, as they think straighforward lyrics would be less interesting.
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: When Johan returned. I mean... come on!
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: When Johan returned. I mean... come on!
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The original lineup consisted 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.
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The original lineup consisted 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 is now officially was a 3-piece.
3-piece until summer 2014.
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* ''2015: a new album, this time not released under Sony''
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A band from Denmark that makes alternative rock most of the time (the rest of time, their music is... [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly less definable]]). After releasing their first 2 albums on an indie label strictly in home country, Mew were signed by Sony in 2003, which handled the distribution of all their subsequent records worldwide.
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A band from Denmark that makes alternative rock most of the time (the rest of time, (in other cases, their music is... [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly less definable]]). After releasing their first 2 albums on an indie label strictly in home country, Mew were signed by Sony in 2003, which handled the distribution of all their subsequent records worldwide.
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* BSide: Of the many singles the band has released, most are very tough to find [[NoExportForYou and afford if you do find them.]]
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* BSide: Of the many singles the band has released, most are very tough to find [[NoExportForYou [[CrackIsCheaper and afford if you do find them.]]
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** "Am I Wry? No" has an ending in 13/4.
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** "156" has a refrain in 13/4.
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* TranslatedCoverVersion: They did a version of their own "White Lips Kissed", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIE2p5XABnU in Japanese!]]
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* TranslatedCoverVersion: They did a version of their own "White Lips Kissed", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIE2p5XABnU in Japanese!]]Japanese!]]
* UncommonTime:
**"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.
* UncommonTime:
**"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.
