release date: Aug. 19, 2009
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,58]
producer: Rich Costey, Mew
label: Evil Office / Columbia - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 2. "Introducing Palace Players" (4 / 5) - 3. "Beach" - 4. "Repeaterbeater" - 13. "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy"
5th studio album by Mew with the full tile 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 [sic] continues the style introduced on the band's previous album. There's a distinct progressive rock element to it, which sometimes works fine, and at other times seems too formative. It's also experimental in the way the band challenges itself with instrumental skills, which require the full attention of the listener. Given time and attention, it's more interesting and daring than the band's 2005 album, but then it's also a release without great pop tunes like "Apocalypso", "Special", and "The Zookeeper's Boy". In that way No More Stories... is the band's boldest prog. rock-styled and experimental, say: daring album to date.
Not bad, not bad, and then: not really great.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars]
