Life of the IT-Drummer

Mew - Introducing Palace Players from the album No More Stores …

Spotify link: http://open.spotify.com/track/0Xd6YqpdN4MIGS2tlqiHK2

Mew has, since I first discovered them at a concert in Roskilde in 2005 been a band I’ve always had a good eye to. I think that their first two releases were pretty decent, with many solid tracks. The first album was maybe a bit pop, and the second a bit darker. This year they released “No More Stories…” (I don’t bother writing the whole name), the first album since 2005. I think the album is quite the masterpiece, with lots of great tracks. I think they succeed in sounding interesting the first time you hear them, and later on your discover new parts, or still can’t figure out some rhythm section, which I found fascinating.

The track I’ve selected for today, is the first single “Introductin Palace Players”, which also was on the No More Stories EP. The track begin with a weird rhytm intro, not all that unlike the start of And The Glass Handed Kites, and then crashes into a more open riff. The drums then play a pretty progressive drum beat with interesting fills, before the vocal kicks in. The end is also quite unusual for a band with such broad audience. I hope that this album will get more people into more challenging music.