Reveling in dreamy pop music, the three Danes once again pass the product test. »Visuals« is a round, beautiful album without a barb or flat aftertaste. Jonas Bjerre's often hailed falsettoes throw a long shadow towards Death Cab For Cutie, but they are, of course, far away from the Dream-Pop roots underlying the Danish band Mew. Perhaps it is a basic prerequisite of this faded-hearty music sub-genre that one can not pick out any real hooklines. Also the seventh album of the trios from Hellerup, self-produced and recorded in Copenhagen, sounds first and foremost pleasing, exhilarating and beautiful - without any lasting moments, sounds or vocal lines remaining in the long term. Bombastic drums fills, sugary harmonies, melancholic soundscapes, confidence and melancholy. More, a band like Mew perhaps does not even have to muster in order to meet their own requirements. Especially since the songwriting of the band went this time easily from the hand, as Bjerre explained; A creative high during the last tour made nails with heads and then moved Mew straight to the studio to immortalize the live feeling adequately on record.
