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It sometimes seems Mew exist and operate in a world slightly apart from this one, and lucky for the rest of us they're happy to invite folks in every so often.

With 2006's lush excursion into Mew-land And the Glass Handed Kites still tickling our psyches, the Danish outfit has revealed plans to hunker down in the studio and record the follow-up. To that end they've enlisted producer Rich Costey (twiddler of knobs for such high-profile releases as Interpol's Our Love to Admire, Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better, and Mew's own sparkling 2003 set Frengers) and booked some studio time in Brooklyn.

And what do we have to look forward to musically from Mew? Here's guitarist Bo Madsen: "Mew have danced to every song just to make sure. Lords of destruction are for real." Careful Bo! Don't want to give too much away, now.

In other Mew news, that photo up there. What the wow.