No More Stories...
| No More Stories... | ||||
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| Released | 17 August 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Studio | Brooklyn Recording and Electric Lady Studios, New York City, and Evil Office, Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, indie rock, dream pop | |||
| Length | 53:36 | |||
| Label | Evil Office, Columbia | |||
| Producer | Rich Costey, Mew | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The A.V. Club | (A) |
| BBC | (positive) |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 |
| Gaffa | |
| Gigwise | |
| NME | |
| Paste | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.1/10 |
| PopMatters | |
No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry They Washed Away // No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away, often shortened down to No More Stories..., is the fifth studio album by the Danish alternative rock band Mew. It was released in Scandinavia on 17 August, the United Kingdom on 24 August, the United States on 25 August, and Japan on 26 August 2009.
No More Stories... is produced by Rich Costey who also produced their breakthrough album Frengers, and is the band's first album as an official trio after bass player Johan Wohlert left to spend time with his family, before rejoining the band prior to the release of + −. It is the band's only album to not feature Wohlert.
According to lead vocalist Jonas Bjerre, this album is happier, "dancier", and more upbeat than its predecessor, And the Glass Handed Kites, which had a dark theme of fear.
Bjerre explained the unusually long title of the album to Gaffa: "We originally wanted a short title for the album but we couldn't find sufficiently redemptive words. The final title is the lyrics to the short intermezzo 'Hawaii Dream', and when Bo [Madsen] suggested that we used the complete text as a title it didn't take him long to convince Silas [Utke Graae Jørgensen] and myself. It was like finding the missing piece in a puzzle".
"Introducing Palace Players", the first single off No More Stories... was first released on their MySpace page on 28 May 2009. It features Swirlies vocalist/guitarist Damon Tutunjian on bass guitar. Other than its inclusion as the lead-off track on the No More Stories EP, it has not been released as a physical single.
The opening track, "New Terrain", if played backwards reveals another song entitled "Nervous" which is added as a bonus track to the vinyl edition of the album. The lyrics were posted as a poem on their Danish record company Evil Office's website.