MEWITHOUTYOU
'Brother, Sister'
STRANGE ADDICTION RECORDS
SUPERB!
Philadelphia’s mewithoutYou are old school yet totally
contemporary, indecipherable yet utterly compelling; all in all, they are
totally unique.With this, their third
slice of agitated post-hardcore, they’ve continued where previous outing ‘Catch
For Us the Foxes’ left off and delivered a sonic collection of spiritual and
chaotic poetry that has to be heard to be believed.This record rails and rages without apology
and along the way, the combination of spoken words and majestic music demands
your attention as it contorts itself mercilessly in the vein hope of finding
some kind of inner peace.You can smell
vocalist Aaron Weiss’ soul burning onto the grooves as opener ‘Messes of Men’
is ushered in on a crunching guitar line.‘Wolf am I’ is frantic and fragile, slowly uncoiling over layers of
discordant post rock; Weiss’ brow furrowed and perplexed as he speak-sings a
desperate parable of human dependence.‘A Glass Can Only Spill What it Contains’ is a perfect punk blast, angry
and not to be messed with, while ‘In a Market Dimly Lit’ is an alternate burst
of euphonic distortion, wringing hands and psychedelia, played out over precision
guitar and a surprisingly seductive accordion.These are the murmurings of a band on the edge and while ‘O, Porcupine’
rages on a malcontented bass line and rocks like a bastard, it’s on the edge
where they find their succour, the only place where their currency is legal and
if you skip the three short odes to coloured spiders, you’ve got a snarling mix
of dark and light that culminates in the bewildering bonus track ‘January
1979’.Ooh, it makes me go all funny!!
