I've had this for about a week and I just don't get it. I have thousands of CDs and LPs in my music collection. I've been recording albums with my own band for over ten years. I've been playing drums for twenty-five years. I don't understand how this band makes pop music that is so simple yet so complex.

It's baffling. I've been listening to the triptych, "Hawaii," "Vaccine" and "Tricks of the Trade." After the first ten listens, I believed this to be a muddled, meandering mess that threatened to sink the entire second half of the record, greatly diminishing the impact of the whole piece of art. After twenty-five listens, layer after layer of complexly interwoven melody, instrumentation, composition and general aural magic have begun to reveal themselves. I can't stop playing this section of the record over and over again. I've not even made it to really understanding the final two tracks on the record yet...

Currently, I've only one small complaint and that may very likely disappear with time. There is no bulldozing rocker like "Apocalypso" or "Snow Brigade" on this latest release. I would have liked one of those buried somewhere in here.

Mew defy classification and expectation. If The Jonas Brothers and Coldplay made a record with 1970s King Crimson and Rush...produced by Kate Bush. Maybe that would start to begin to explain what is happening here.

When "And the Glass-Handed Kites" was released, I told numerous people that the best way to describe Mew was that they sound like falling in love for the first time feels...all over again...ever single time. That description still holds true for me.

Amazing.

Mew's last album (.."And the Glass Handed Kites") is one of the best albums I've ever heard. Needless to say I was exited about this follow-up. I've listened through this one twice and I am loving it already. Buy this album! Mew will change the way you see music. It will transform your preferences :). TIP: Mew is an album band. You sometimes have to listen to the whole album to get the point. I do not recommend buying a few MP3 tracks.Go for the entire enchilada!!

So I bought this album right when it came out and was extremely dissapointed. I thought it lacked the unity of And The Glass Handed Kites and the driving beats that I love about MEW. It didn't help that I bought Phoenix's latest album at the same time either and already had something awesome to listen to. I couldn't get a couple of the songs out of my head though and kept coming back for more and eventually realized that No More Stories Are Told Today.....stayed in my CD player for the majority of the time. MEW has simply grown, moved on, and produced a CD even better than the previous stuff.....something I can feel even more than before. I can't believe I passed "Introducing Palace Players" 50 times before I gave it a chance. Never again will I fast forward a track because I don't get the beginning. This song is one of my favorites of all time now. Besides that though, this entire CD is awesome, just give it a chance with an open mind.

August 25th, 2009

You don't just listen to Mew's new album/cd "No more stories are told today..." as much as live it.

Mew, aside from being masters of composition and of an incredible ability to creat in one song more melodic content than most good bands will create in their entire body of work, have created here an album that is filled with heartfelt sentiments, and overwhelms the listener with a wide range of feelings.

There are moments of sweet melancholic dreams, where you are transported into landscapes of dark and dense forests shimering with snow and ice (take "Cartoons and Macrame Wounds" or "Silas the Magic Car" as examples of this). Or songs that have a childish joy curtesy of their rich and beautiful melodic content (for instance "Beach").

If you feel, as I sometimes have felt, that we are awash in audio trash; hip hop / rap with its unfiltered, unapologetic, retrograde and degenerative stupidity, wannabe pop singers who think "oversinging" is a sign of talent, (look up the term and then go slap Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carrie, and while you are at it kick Michael Bolton), rehashed 80's new wave pseudo post punk rockers (just cause you emulate Depeche Mode and The Cure does not mean you are any thing remotely as good), hack DJ's who think "triggering" other real artist's sounds or songs while holding one headphone against your ear means you yourself are an artists, and lastly teenage targeted stupidity a.k.a. the Jonas Bros / Hannah Montana and the Disney bred rubish... to those of you who think all is and has been lost to the aforementioned cultural black whole, I have this to say.

BUY THIS CD!!! It will make you feel that there is hope in the world of music, and true art and culture are not de-evolving but is actualy still evolving and in good form.

I hate calling this band "pop" because they are far from being a pop band. In fact, I would call this album one of the more creative, progressive "melodic" albums of the late 2000's. It's mesmerizing almost on the fringe of being progressive rock similiar to bands of old like Yes or even Pink Floyd. This is a great album. I wish more young bands of today had this type of creativity and ambience in their music. Today we have so many 3 chord jingle songs or sampled dance and hip hop. This album is refreshing.