★★★★★
It's not your imagination: Everything on the charts right now is catastrophically dull. Relief comes from Denmark in the shape of "+-," the inconveniently titled sixth album from the band Mew. With front man Jonas Bjerres, who sounds like a 12-year-old girl, waxing poetic about space travel, rainbows and God knows what else, the rest of the band conjures its own Genesis/My Bloody Valentine hybrid built on knotty chords, propulsive grooves and cascading melodies...
- www.sfgate.com
2015-05-10
★★★★★
A summation of Mew's position: Mew are seriously uncool; They are also too cool to be popular; They are somehow both at the same time. Blame prog-rock for giving them a raw deal. The Danish quartet certainly had the optics to earn the tag: witness their magnificent hair and garish album covers. They've also released only two LPs in the past nine years, and one was meant to be listened to as a continuous 54-minute suite and had a 23-word poem as its title...
- pitchfork.com
2015-05-01
★★★★★
Denmark's Mew are justly adored by a small but loyal band of followers off the back of an excellent brace of albums in the mid-noughties: 2003's Frengers and 2005's And The Glass Handed Kites. Mew's progression across these two albums is comparable to that of Radiohead across The Bends and OK Computer: Frengers - on which Mew established their ability to write affecting, anthemic rock songs - was their The Bends, while And The Glass Handed Kites - the 'difficult' follow-up - was their OK...
- www.musicomh.com
2015-04-28
★★★★★
This Danish band's sixth album (and their first in six years) is a strong set of psych-tinged prog-pop featuring a densely layered sound, shape-shifting arrangements and starry-eyed melodies. 4/24/2015
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- kexp.org
2015-04-25
★★★★★
I might be wrong, but it strikes me that are a band especially beloved of musicians. It's not hard to see why. Over the course of what has now become a long career, the Danish quartet have, it seems, become increasingly fearless. This, their first album since 2009's continues their grand tradition. With a heavy nod to Eighties synth pop, more than a hint of Brian Eno and with the soaring vocals of Jonas Bjerre ever present, feels like another Mew album made on their own terms, just as it has...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2015-04-24
★★★★★
Label:
Play It Again Sam
Release Date:
27/04/2015
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I might be wrong, but it strikes me that Mew are a band especially beloved of musicians. It's not hard to see why. Over the course of what has now become a long career, the Danish quartet have, it seems, become increasingly fearless. This, their first album since 2009's No More Stories... continues their grand tradition...
- drownedinsound.com
2015-04-25
★★★★★
For fans of Mew, the tranquil opening sequence to is a bit unsettling. Frengers -- Mew's affectionate name for their devotees -- want to lose themselves in the comforting sounds of Jonas Bjerre's soft, youthful voice floating over his band's signature ambient guitar and synth wash, but instead of experiencing their usual euphoria, the intro racks Frengers with anxiety in anticipation of the ten new Mew tracks they've waited six years to hear...
- exclaim.ca
2015-04-23
★★★★★
It's six years since Danish prog/art-rockers Mew released their tortuously titled album 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. Their follow up +/- is more succinctly named but sees them continue in their proggy-pop tradition, this time with a cameo from Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-04-24
★★★★★
There's nothing more exciting than bands with long, deep discographies continuing to push themselves later on in their careers after already having made their mark. Perhaps that's why it took so long for Mew to follow up 2009's No More Stories... . That record was the culmination of the preceding four full lengths and the result of a band reaching their full potential after more than 15 years of playing together...
- absolutepunk.net
2015-05-29