Denmark's Mew brought their energized space pop to Los Angeles' famed Troubadour last night where the packed-to-capacity room was mesmerized by the Scandinavian prog rockers' animated music and visuals. Ripping through songs from their new album No More Stories... and its predecessor And The Glass Handed Kites, Mew navigated fourteen surreal soundscapes with perfection while nightmarish animations were projected on the screen behind them. Jonas Bjerre's stunning voice captained the music's adventurous melodies and difficult time signatures, and applying his flawless falsettos (no pitch correction here), he jumped between octaves as easily as if he was using his speaking voice. Meanwhile, Bo Madsen's Venusian guitar work and drummer Silas Utke Graae Jorgensen's monster robot beats supplied the crowd with something equally transcendental. Some of L.A.'s indie scene was seen (like Opus Dai, Woven, Helen Earth, That Noise, H Is Orange,...
- 9/2/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
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