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"Visuals" is the seventh studio album by Danish alternative rock band Mew. It was released on 21 April 2017 on the Play It Again Sam label. It is the first Mew album not to feature guitarist Bo Madsen, who left the band after their previous album, + - was released in 2015.
Upon its release, the album received favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 6 reviews.
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Mew's seventh set, Visuals, is a magical journey through a dream pop landscape that goes easy on the crunchy muscle of earlier efforts. Opting for atmospherics over bombast, Mew focus on mood over tight pop song structure, which is rewarding for fans of the the lusher portions of their prior album, + -.
Of all the tracks on Visuals, the bittersweet and swelling "Carry" is the best. It stands out as one of the most accomplished songs Mew have ever produced, in fact. Without founding guitarist Bo Madsen, there were fears that Mew couldn't survive as a trio. While it's true that some of their pseudo-"prog" power is lost without Madsen's riffs, Mew's delivery is no less effective. Their ever-morphing vision has simply moved beyond terrestrial bonds and ascended into the expanse of the galaxy. --- AllMusic Review by Neil Z. Yeung
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