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Mew - '+ -' (2015) 2CDs

Posted By: Designol
Mew - '+ -' (2015) 2CDs

Mew - '+ -' (2015) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 727 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 251 Mb | Scans ~ 402 Mb
Label: PIAS/A:larm Music/Petroleum | # PIASR775CDXB | Time: 01:50:07
Genre: Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Space Rock

Danish noisemeisters MEW emerge with '+ -' (pronounced plus minus) , and it's all skewed pop sensibility coupled with an ever expansive musical backdrop denoting the extremities of the band's creative DNA. This shows once more a band treading their own unique path. Recorded in Copenhagen, produced by Michael Beinhorn and Mew with mixing duties undertaken by Rich Costey , '+ -' features an appearance from Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack on 'My Complications' - a song he co-wrote which came to fruition having met Mew on a US tour some years ago.

Spare in name only, Mew's sixth studio long-player is even more ambitious than 2009's loftily titled 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, doubling down on the shimmery, light/dark Passion Pit-inspired electro-pop that served as the foundation for their last major-label outing, while bringing back some of the angular post-rock angst of earlier works like Frengers (2003) and And the Glass Handed Kites (2005). It's the latter work that looms largest on + -, their first release for Belgian independent label PIAS (Play It Again Sam), due in large part to it being a reunion with producer Michael Beinhorn and bass player Johan Wohlert, neither of whom had worked with the band since their 2005 outing. Beinhorn and Wohlert's contributions add some sonic weight to the proceedings, as does, to a lesser extent, Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack, who provides the album with its meatiest offering, the blistering "My Complications," which he co-wrote. New Zealand electro-soul pop star Kimbra lends her mellifluous voice to the soaring "Night Believer," but as per usual (mew-sual?), it's frontman Jonas Bjerre's distinctive croon that sets the tone. Mew have always been at their best when mining beauty from existential horror, and that heady mix of childlike wonder and general uneasiness (which Bjerre excels at) is the electrical current that powers + -'s best moments, which arrive via the knotty single "Satellites," the aforementioned "My Complications," and the album-closing epics "Rows" and "Cross the River on Your Own." Free from any sort of major-label constraints, the band sounds both invigorated and restless, and while deciphering their skewed Danish pop sensibilities can often prove challenging, it's well worth the effort, as the results can just as often be breathtaking.

Review by James Christopher Monger, Allmusic.com

Mew - '+ -' (2015) 2CDs



Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Satellites (06:09)
02. Witness (03:01)
03. The Night Believer (04:12)
04. Making Friends (04:52)
05. Clinging to a Bad Dream (06:43)
06. My Complications (06:03)
07. Water Slides (05:05)
08. Interview the Girls (04:04)
09. Rows (10:43)
10. Cross the River on Your Own (07:28)

CD2:

01. Coffee Break (Live) (04:49)
02. Satellites (Live) (05:56)
03. She Spider (Live) (04:45)
04. Hawaii (Live) (05:35)
05. My Complications (Live) (05:41)
06. Silas The Magic Car (Live) (04:02)
07. Water Slides (Live) (04:44)
08. Cross The River On Your Own (Live) (07:31)
09. Special (Live) (03:08)
10. The Zookeeper's Boy (Live) (05:27)


Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 27. May 2015, 22:02

Mew / + -

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Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Track 2

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Track 3

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Track 6

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Track 7

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Track 8

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Track 9

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Track 10

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 0.00 dB -7.67 dB 3:02 02-Witness
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Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 849 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 28. May 2015, 0:48

Mew / + -

Used drive : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-118L Adapter: 2 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%


TOC of the extracted CD

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Track 7

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Track 8

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Track 9

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Track 10

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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR6

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 930 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Mew - '+ -' (2015) 2CDs

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