★★★★★
When mewithoutYou released their 2009 album, It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright, rumors began to swirl that it was indeed their swan song. The band was silent for a while, but eventually, it got out that mewithoutYou was indeed writing more material for a new album. Without renewing their Tooth & Nail Records contract, mewithoutYou went to work on Ten Stories - their first independent record in more than a decade...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Sound: MewithoutYou is the sort of band that slips below the radar. That doesn't mean they aren't good. It just means the general, boring, normal masses of the earth can't quite grasp how awesome they are. When I first heard of them, it was through the song "Elephant In The Dock" off "Ten Stories". I loved it straightaway. So I bought the whole album - and at first, I wasn't so sure, because there's a fair amount of screaming involved - but then you realize, HEY, this is GOOD screaming...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-10-01
★★★★★
Summary: A welcome nod to past ideas. 10 of 11 thought this review was well written As a devout mewithoutYou fan I have to admit I was kind of taken aback by the band's previous album when I first heard it. Their decision to do away with their signature brand of post-hardcore in favour of folksy, baroque-pop numbers initially seemed like an ill-conceived plan, and even though they managed to ruffle some feathers in changing their style, the fanciful whimsy of It's All Crazy! It's All False!.....
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
Throughout their first four albums, mewithoutYou gradually expanded their post-hardcore sound until the unlikely folk-y departure of It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright. That record, although a masterpiece, proved to be divisive...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-07-05
★★★★★
Aaron Weiss' imagination has always been rich, but he may have outdone himself this time on his band's (mewithoutYou) latest album. Free from the label constrains of Tooth & Nail, mewithoutYou set out to tackle the concept album, something that excited many fans considering Weiss' vivid and colorful lyricism. But I'd supposed very few, if any, were expecting Weiss and company to portray their eccentric sound through the viewpoint of talking bears, elephants, and more (oh my!)...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-05-17
★★★★★
When mewithoutYou announced that they were streaming their fifth full-length, Ten Stories, it was accompanied with a series of questions, the most glaring of which was "Have you been on the fence about the band since the direction of the last album?" That anyone felt the need to ask is a testament to how polarizing their last effort, It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright really was...
- www.punknews.org
2012-05-17
★★★★★
Summary: my brother and my sister don't speak to me / but I don't blame them To start at the end of all stories, "All Circles" carries a quintessential mewithoutYou lyric executed like one of James Blake's; it is a singular thought captured out of time, with its significance deemed only by itself. "All circles presuppose they'll end where they begin but only in their leaving can they ever come back around, all circles presuppose...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-05-14
★★★★★
When it comes to the world of mewithoutYou opinions, there is a small group of listeners that still clings to A -> B: Life as being mewithoutYou's crowning achievement, of which I am a part. In my eyes, the logic is simple; A -> B: Life is mewithoutYou's only album that is essentially without a flaw. Catch For Us The Foxes, despite being both consistent and with its high points, failed to coagulate under any sort of theme or sense of overall unity...
- www.indievisionmusic.com
2012-05-10
★★★★★
Cut loose from the red tape and restrictions that can sometimes come with being on a record label, this is mewithoutYou's first full-length album released independently of Tooth & Nail. It's also their first batch of original material since 2009's "It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright", which ditched all the usual stylings and turned a quirkier corner...
- www.alterthepress.com
2012-05-07
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