![]() Fews grow as a band on this effort by putting their struggle to balance sonic upheaval and messy, ungrounded feelings in the center of every track. This is a song about our favourite pursuit: apathy. Into Red feels distant but still sees the band reaching for more emotionally connective expressions. One of the strengths of the album is how it moves between claustrophobia and clarity, gracefully switching gears from cluttered, repetitive blasters like “Anything Else” to more spare (if dour) tunes like “Suppose” or album standout “97.” Angst is the primary emotion on much of Into Red, from the dissociating narration of early-Radiohead-esque album opener “Quiet” to the grinding, bass-driven “Business Man.” Fews walk a thin line between dissonance and pop throughout Into Red, always tempering their knotty post-punk impulses with moments of soaring harmony. The song nods to both the uneasy vocal delivery and eerie songcraft of the Pixies as well as the walls of guitar noise implemented by less championed shoegaze acts like Loop or the Telescopes. Co-produced by Joakim Lindberg (Hater) and mixed by James Dring 'Into Red' sees FEWS extricating their influences to reveal a band assuredly moving on from the template of their debut album Means with a confident post-punk swagger and no little addition of muscular heft on the song-writing front. Fews grow as a band on this effort by putting their struggle to balance sonic upheaval and messy, ungrounded feelings in the center of every track. It’s quite a literal song and I hope no one connects to this song on a personal level. ‘More Than Ever’ is mostly about being and feeling apathetic, says guitarist/vocalist Fred. The terse and moody song finds partially spoken vocals bending around verses before exploding into enormous choruses. Into Red feels distant but still sees the band reaching for more emotionally connective expressions. FEWS are set to release new album ‘Into Red’ in March - and today they’ve shared another track from it. Co-produced by Joakim Lindberg (Hater) and mixed by James Dring Into Red sees FEWS extricating their influences to reveal a band assuredly moving on from the template of their debut album Means with a confident post-punk swagger and no little addition of muscular heft on the song-writing front. Lead single “Paradiso” highlights some of these shifts in the band’s style. ![]() This is their second album “Into Red” expands on the tension-heavy tones of Means, retaining some of that album’s repetitive rhythmic churn while branching out into more dynamic songwriting and exploring shoegazey guitar tones and angular approaches to songwriting. ![]() Working mostly out of London, the band had roots in separate Swedish towns and grew from an online friendship between Malmo musician Fred Rundqvis and David Alexander, who moved from San Francisco to Sweden to start Fews with Rundqvis in 2013. Dark and textural rock outfit Fews emerged from scattered origins with a bold 2016 debut entitled Means.
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