Concept: Mew tries to make alienation pleasant.
Sound: The similarity to mainstream pop is undeniable — airy, boyish vocalists, synth stew, moseying surf guitar progressions. What Mew does differently is make its songs almost linear. There is very little reprise; the songs never seem to stop changing into something else. This takes its toll, however. There is never a sense of climax or resolution. At its best the band is a lesser Radiohead, with unconventional organization in familiar instrumentation and meter, but their sound remains fixed in a combination of Enya and Dashboard Confessional.
Lyrics: Still lost in an impressionist adolescence. Incomplete sentences with yearning content speak like a broken cellphone blinking on the floor of a high school hallway after hours.
Quick And Dirty: Articulate but unambitious post-rock with lyrics. (♦♦♦)
post rock?
a lesser radiohead?
enya and dashboard?
fail fail and fail.
That’s why it’s tagged as ‘Negative Review’. I wish I could apply this tag to your use of ‘fail’ as a noun.