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It's been far too long since we last heard from those dainty Danes in Mew, so we were just bowled over with feelings of childlike glee when they turned up on iTunes today with a brand new EP for us. Well, we had to pay for it, but still.

The Live Session EP, exclusive to iTunes, collects, yes, live session recordings of a few Mew favorites. We get And the Glass Handed Kites standouts "Special" and "An Envoy to the Open Fields", along with Frengers jams "Snow Brigade" and "Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed". Rare cut "Saliva, Mica & Panda" rounds out the release. Straightforward these guys ain't.

Mew have retreated from the toil of touring to begin work on the Glass Handed Kites follow-up. They also recently reissued a bonus disc-bolstered version of an out-of-print early LP, Half the World Is Watching Me, in Europe via Evil Office.

Live Session EP:

01 Special
02 Snow Brigade
03 Saliva, Mica & Panda
04 An Envoy to the Open Fields
05 Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed