Today's Brew | Troubadour: Mew

Last night, Mew performed at a sold out show at the Troubadour. Although they did play last week with Bloc Party and Broken Social Scene at the Greek Theatre (on Thursday, if I got my facts straight). This is their first time coming out to Southern California.



The band exceeded the expectation in their performance as they really handled the music well, but the vocalist Jonas Bjerre was rather stiff and unintereresting. Bottom line, there was really no sense of interaction with the lead vocalist to the audience.



Also, I was hoping that they would play their set like they did their album- a continous flow, from one song to the next, where the songs seem seamless. Instead they took liberty to change the sequence of the songs, thus a more fragmented jigsaw puzzle. The set list they played was almost deconstructing the sequential songs of the album itself.



Not bad of a debut for a bunch folks from Denmark.



My previous post about them back from late last year ovah here.