Mewithoutyou

  • Jason Bowe
  • Apr 10, 2005
  • Series: Music
    Mewithoutyou

     Fear not Christian emo/ screamo/ hardcore fans! All is not lost to the self centered, pseudo-nihilist, hopeless, sup pop philosophies of your favorite sub culture bands. Meet Mewithoutyou, a quirky blend of spoken word and emo/screamo. Track after track from "Catch for us the foxes" desperatly and urgently pleads and plays like a tiny bomb with a catchy beat. "Pleading for his one true love to return?" you may ask through thick black glasses (possibly not prescription) and slightly tattered sweater (possibly not really vintage). To you I must answer in the negative. But wait! If you consider that his one true love is Lord of lords and King of kings, then put a check in the Love box.
    Don't expect to swoon to a sad crooner, what they lack in "oh that's pretty" the make up for in the effort and catchy hooks department. "She's like a hot cloth on a fevered head, and like a needle she leads me (well, I follow like thread) but you untied me, didn't you untie me Lord?" (From "Tie me up! Untie me!"). Oh did I mention the open and oftentimes penitent praise of God? That, combined with some of the more poetic lyrics I've read in quite sometime, is enough for me to be a bit more than forgiving of the somewhat whiney delivery of verse after verse.

    4 word letter
    "I wrote a 4 word letter
    Post script and crooked lines, though I lived I'd never been alive, you Know who I am you held my hand, as I traveled far listening to whispering in my ear. Soft but getting stronger, telling me the only purpose of my being here is to stay a bit longer. Wielding a bicycle chain as the handlebars crash to the ground the back wheel detached from the frame kept rolling yea but Look at your eyes they're small in size but they see enormus things"aimlessly drifting around."

    "Oh doubters lets go down, lets go down, won't you come on down. down to the river to pray Oh, but I'm so small I can barely see, how can this great love be inside of me.

    Mewithoutyou sounds a whole lot like what would happen if your favorite coffee shop band found out that electric guitars did in fact exist. In fact (to follow my metaphor) the album feels a lot like coffee; lots and lots of quick sporadic energy slowly winding down into swimmy soft musings. "Carousels" plays like a guitar riff trapped in a house of mirrors chords bouncing lost in the air waiting for a receptive eardrum. A voice through a distant radio chants "Jesus remember me, when you come into your kingdom" under groggy wandering spoken word until the chorus swells to a lonely gray voice inches from suicide. The voice laments that with out God as his guide all would have been lost long ago. " Catch for us the Foxes" is definitely not designed for warm and fuzzy feelings, but if you need a break from the me-centered, same old same old, you might want to steal (by this I mean purchse a download) a few tracks for your favorite MP3 Player.

    Contributed by from a boat somewhere in the Indian Ocean. He returns to Kaleo in 40 days!

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