MEW quickly caught W&H's attention with their recent, pigeonhole-goading debut single "Am I Wry? No" single and its' two attendant tracks suggesting this Danish quartet were plotting a sonic course all their own.
Nonetheless, releasing a one-track Christmas single so early into their career would be pushing it in less able hands, but Jonas Bjerre and co pull if off with audacity to spare here.
Undoubtedly, the band's recent live outings with both Manic Street Preachers and Martin Grech have upped their confidence quotient as "She Came Home For Christmas" is an impressive beast when viewed from any angle. Cloaked in winter atmosphere, with Bo Madsen's guitar again igniting nicely and Bjerre's voice adopting a Wayne Coyne-ish timbre, "She Came..." plonks you down squarely inside MEW'S unusually romantic winter wonderland and will actually demand playing at Christmases further down the line .
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MEW are already cultivating an arcane presence to take into the future. Jonas says their mission is to "take the listener on a journey and by the end, they're in a total different place" and , you know what? They're succeeding - so far, at least.
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