Mew Debuts Brand New Music Video for “Water Slides”
L-R: Bo Madsen, Johan Wohlert,
Jonas Bjerre, Silas Utke Graae Jorgensen ~ Photo credit: Paul Heartfield
Following an enormously successful week of concerts and media at SXSW, the idiosyncratic Danish alt/rock/prog band Mew has just released a new video for the track “Water Slides,” taken from the band’s upcoming album +- (as in plus minus), due out April 28 [PIAS].
Still from the “Water Slides” video
Click here to check out the video, directed by Denmark’s Anders Malmberg. According to Mew’s Jonas Bjerre, “We feel his interpretation carries with it the same sense of foreboding we sensed in the song. It’s a mystery of sorts ~ we are presented with a feeling that something is wrong, but we can’t know what it is, and an almost pleasurable giving in, to impending disaster.”
On +-, Mew ~ Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, Silas Utke Graae Jorgenson and Jonas Wohlert (recently reunited as its original four-piece with the return of bassist Wohlert) ~ continues to intrigue with its nuances and wonderfully skewed, off-kilter pop brilliance. “Water Slides” sees the band at its exhilarating best, taking an evolving, expansive journey that pushes the band’s musical boundaries and invites the listener along for the ride. As one writer put it, “+- could be one of the finest things the band has ever put their names on.”
Currently on tour in Asia with a full European schedule for this summer, Mew plans to tour North America extensively beginning later this year.
Anyone who pre-orders the album through iTunes will receive “Water Slides” as an instant download.
Also check out the official video for “Satellites” off the upcoming album here.
Still from the video “Satellites”
L-R: Bo Madsen, Johan Wohlert, Jonas Bjerre, Silas Utke Graae Jorgensen – Photo credit: Paul Heartfield