Neil Condron

12:42 7th February 2006

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mew - why are you looking graveThe reason we’re looking grave, Mew, is that we’re struggling to pick out the essence of a song in this wall of Marillion-meets-Muse sound.  That’s not to say it’s a totally joyless pursuit – how the almost shoegazerly vocal from Jonas Bjerre, for example, suddenly finds itself soaring un-scaled peaks (aided by backing vox from a certain J Mascis of Dinosaur Jnr) without the smallest hint of a struggle is a thing of effortless wonder.  But, overall, it’s not enough. A limited edition of the single contains 8 versions of the song at various stages of completion, so fans can purr over the B-sides-as-documentary concept.  Cheers lads.  All we need now is for Mr Kipling to bring out a box of his classic apple pies containing one overcooked one and 5 half baked ones and we’d have a real party on our hands…     

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