{"id":70637,"date":"2018-10-09T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=70637"},"modified":"2018-10-08T23:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T22:40:58","slug":"review-mewithoutyou-untitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-mewithoutyou-untitled\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: mewithoutYou \u2013 [Untitled]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From the first jangly notes of noise of \u2018[Untitled]\u2019<\/em>, mewithoutYou<\/strong>\u2019s latest album sounds full of energy. Maybe not an active energy, but a tense, disconcerting energy like that of an unstable nuclear bomb. The Philadelphia band have realigned their poetic, experimental sound with some of the heftiest rock music we\u2019ve seen them put out on their previous albums.<\/p>\n

Lead single \u2018Julia\u2019<\/em> is a perfect example of how they have bottled this sound. It\u2019s littered with poetic, deep lyricism but balanced atop crushing shoegaze style riffs, and it pays off by feeling uniquely massive to them. The distorted riffs and pacing drums couldn\u2019t feel more distant from the vocals but perfectly work with the deep, wistful voices.<\/p>\n

Later tracks\u00a0\u2018Another Head For Hydra\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 and \u2018Flee, Thou Matadors!\u2019<\/em> sees the band sounding like R.E.M fused with La Dispute, splitting their runtimes between driving guitar lines, a hyper-emotive vocal delivery that fluidly shifts from a declaration to a scream. The lyrics are colourful; their signature tool when it comes to vividly spewing out their detailed poetry. The latter of the two closes with dissonant tones that take brief glances at the psychedelic.<\/p>\n