Mew – Introducing Palace Players (Columbia)
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By: Mariota Spens
Introducing Palace Players, from Danish band Mew, has got me thinking. With an explorative drumbeat and primitive, snakelike guitar shapes prodding us forward into what becomes the rest of the song, it sounds like a marionette that is just working out how to use itself, then, as a rhythm comes into existence, it gradually does and creates a quirky dance sequence just to repeat it over and over again.
As the video suggests, you at first think you’re on an interesting journey of discovery through leafy, Danish woodlands, you eventually come to realize that - however reasonably pleasant the surroundings - you are in fact running round in circles, with pink lasers darting at you in a whirlwind of confusion. However, as the band suggests, this is all a deliberate act of futuristic-rock madness, describing their sound as ‘forward and backward at the same time, past and future all uncomfortably and awkwardly coexisting in the same place’.
Well... I wouldn’t quite call it that, I think they’re trying to be a little more abstract than they really are, and have created that futuristic-electro-rock sound that is not so drastically original as they intended it to be. Yet it does still have a good rhythm to it and is perfect as background music to a forgetful night in in front of the fire.
Artists in this article: Mew
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