And The Glass Handed Kites

Label
SONY BMG MUSIC UK
Running length
19 tracks
Running time
73:33

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Mew - The Circuitry Of The Wolf 2:45 11,136
2 Mew - Chinaberry Tree 3:33 107,418
3 Mew - Why Are You Looking Grave 3:50 23,483
3 Mew;J Mascis - Why Are You Looking Grave? 3:49 5,676
4 Mew - Fox Cub 1:15 95,814
5 Mew - Apocalypso 4:46 126,287
6 Mew - Special 3:13 164,313
7 Mew - Zookeeper's boy 4:42 7,709
7 Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy 4:52 130,746
8 Mew - A Dark Design 3:29 92,809
8 Mew - Dark Design 3:28 6,485
9 Mew - Saviours Of Jazz Ballet 3:19 11,123
9 Mew - Saviours Of Jazz Ballet (Fear Me December) 3:17 6,121
10 Mew - An Envoy To The Open Fields 3:39 87,725
11 Mew - Small Ambulance 1:05 89,446
12 Mew - The Seething Rain Weeps For You (Uda Pruda) 4:14 36,553
12 Mew - Seething Rain Weeps For You (Uda Pruda) 4:17 5,364
13 Mew - White Lips Kissed 6:44 85,594
14 Mew - Louise Louisa 7:16 72,100

About this album

And the Glass Handed Kites is the fourth studio album by Danish band Mew. It was released 19 September 2005 in Denmark, 26 September 2005 in the rest of Europe and 26 July 2006 in the United States.

Compared to previous Mew albums, this album is unique in that the structure is built upon as if it was a single continuous suite. The album has been called ‘one long song’, an allusion to the tracks’ unnoticed transitions.[1]

The album has been well received by critics, with Pitchfork calling it “a terrific accomplishment”.[2] The album has won Mew several prizes in Denmark, including four Danish Music Awards.} It also features at the top of Danish music magazine Gaffa’s list of best albums of 2005.

The working title for the album was “Saviours of Jazz Ballet”, but even before they thought about calling it “Circuitry of the Wolf”.

Despite not having been released as a single, the track “The Zookeeper’s Boy” gained massive popularity with the biggest radio station in Denmark, P3, playing the track intensively. This made it the “Hit of the Year” in various polls, and when Gaffa, the biggest Danish music magazine, made a poll, it took first place, with the actual single “Special” coming in second. It was later released as a single due to popular demand.

The album’s cover has earned it the dubious honor of being the second album named in Pitchfork Media’s “Your Cover’s Blown,” a column devoted to poor album art.[3] And also in Pitchfork Media’s “Top 25 Worst Album Covers of 2006”.[4]
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