Mew’s New Album Due in June

Many of you have been waiting in eager anticipation for the new Mew album. Finally, the new Mew record is ready to go. It’s been recorded and produced, and in June it will be listened to en masse.

Hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, Mew first broke onto the scene in 2003 with their album, Frengers which won the “Album of the Year” and “Band of the Year” at the 2003 Danish Music Awards (DMA). Frengers made my favorites of 2008, and here is a video of Mew performing Snow Brigade from Frengers at the DMA’s. In 2005 they released And the Glass Handed Kites in Denmark, dropping in the UK a bit later, and finally in the US in July of 2006.

Spin magazine had the privlidge of interviewing what I would call the weirdest band I know, and here are a few snippets:

The band also moved away from the continuous manner in which Kites was mixed, where one song basically bled seamlessly into the next. “The last record we did was like one long thing, and I love that about it,” Bjerre says. “We didn’t want to do that again, we wanted to have separate songs. I think it’s like a counter reaction to what we did last time.”

In 2006 the bassist Johan Wohlert departed the band to hang with his lady friend Pernille Rosendahl from the now-disbanded band Swan Lee and they then formed The Storm. Mew fanatics are of course wondering if this will change the Mew sound, but only time will tell. Regarding the tone and feel of the album, Bjerre says,

“Oftentimes, even if the song’s not happy, the lyrics are,” he explains. “I think that this record’s probably a bit weirder in some ways, but also there’s some really very clear stuff.”

The band has been eerily quiet about the new record with only a few interviews popping up here and there, a few comments on the Mew forum. The only real communication from the band has been in the form of their rather outdated video diaries — which mark them as the weirdest dudes in music. Some indie bands feel the need to don the facade of weirdness because…well…that’s just cool. I’m pretty sure these guys aren’t acting. Have a gander below.

You can pick up Frengers as well as read others reviews at the music is for lovers Amazon store. Also, Purevolume has a great bio and a few streaming tunes, as does Last.fm and MySpace.