Mew

So we saw Mew last night and -- Oh. My. God. I will never be able to adequately describe the experience -- going in, I was worried they wouldn't be as good live as they were on the albums; coming out, I'm worried that I'll never be able to listen to their albums again. All I can say is -- the red lights aren't long enough.

Since you now probably want to listen to the absolute sonic wonderment that is Mew -- well, there aren't any song downloads available that I'm aware of, although there are about twenty million little clips (also several full-length videos) on their website. The only thing you can download is this podcast interview they did with Interface last year. The interviewer totally butchers the pronunciation of Sigur Rós, but otherwise it's good. It's about half an hour long, they do acoustic versions of four songs (The Zookeeper's Boy -- Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed -- Why Are You Looking Grave -- Comforting Sounds) and the talk is interesting.

Either way, however, these are definately albums I would recommend buying (from your local, independent record store -- not Amazon). Definately.