Album: Brother, Sister
Artist: Mewithoutyou
Label: Tooth and Nail
Sounds like: Heavier tracks from the Flaming Lips

On Catch for Us the Foxes , Mewithoutyou were escapees from screamo into a much more interesting and dreamy musical land. Brother Sister continues their extraordinary journey, with, if anything, heavier and less accessible music (“The dryness and the rain” has a heavy, Zeppelin-ish section that morphs into the frantic and clanging riffing of “Wolf am I!”, while some melodies seem like Nick Cave rejects). The vocals are, again, an astonishing mix of desperation and meditation, spinning words with a mastery of rhyme and phrasing. What the songs are actually about is anyone’s guess—and the interspersed sea shanties about coloured spiders don’t help— but the fall down the musical rabbit hole is a great ride.

Nick's Rating: 3/5