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Rumbling sound, rapid riffs – Mew’s music is seemingly hard-hitting and violent. Yet, when the effortless and pious pop melodies from boy soprano Jonas Bjerre reach your ear, you understand why music geeks and pop girls alike love the band.

The Danes' international breakthrough came with And the Glass Handed Kites from 2005. This grandiose concept album really flew Mew outside of Denmark. Here they were received as fresh Danish shoots high up the family tree where Sigur Rós, My Bloody Valentine and The Mars Volta otherwise live in unapproachable majesty.

However, Mew’s music is not palmed off with cross-references to other bands. They play their very own fairytale-like melodic dream pop that sounds as if written for divine elf maids and sad Icelandic princes.

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