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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">mewithoutYou Launches Album Pre-Sale Today<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Ten Stories</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Out May 15<sup>th</sup>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>mewithoutYou</b>’s<b> </b>fifth album<b>
<i>Ten Stories</i> </b>is now available for pre-sale exclusively via the band’s web site
<b><a href="http://www.mewithoutyou.com">www.mewithoutyou.com</a>. </b> Every pre-sale order will come with an automatic free download of album track<b> "Fox's Dream of the Log Flume,"</b> which features contributing vocals from Paramore’s
<b>Haley Williams</b>. This album is the band’s first release on their own label <b>
<i>Pine Street</i></b>. It is set for release <b>May 15<sup>th</sup></b>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Pre-order options include a <b>digital download, a CD, 150-gram colored vinyl LP and a Collector’s Box Set</b>, limited to only 1,000 copies. The CD and vinyl LP both come with the 12-page lyric booklet and feature
8 original paintings by <b>Vasily Kafanov</b> (who painted the album cover and artwork). The Collector’s Box Set will ship in June and includes 180-gram double LP, a 28-page book featuring 11 original paintings by Kafanov, a CD with 2 bonus tracks and alternate
album artwork by Kafanov and a 7” called “Other Stories” which features two B-side tracks from the album sessions, an 8-page lyric booklet with a foreword by drummer Rickie Mazzotta and two original paintings by Kafanov.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">mewithoutYou recently premiered their lead single
<b>“February, 1878” </b>on <b><i>PasteMagazine.com</i> - </b>hear it <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/04/song-premiere-mewithoutyou---february-1978.html">
here</a>. The song, much like the entire album, is a combination of the hard-hitting energy of the band’s earlier years and their more recent ventures into melody.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">With 10 years as a band under their belt, it is only fitting that
<b>mewithoutYou </b>has managed to make their most expansive and dynamic album to date.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>
<b><i><span style="color:black">Ten Stories</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">toys with the band’s favorite themes of
</span>romantic disaster and quasi-mystical speculation, offering up<span style="color:black"> a collection of allegorical songs about a circus train crash in 19<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>century Montana. Through the fable-like
interactions of fictitious animals, the songs offer up deep ponderings about human character.
<b><i>Ten Stories</i></b> is yet another gem for their catalogue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>mewithoutYou </b>kicks off their North American headlining tour on
<b>May 17<sup>th</sup> </b>in<b> Washington, DC</b>, with Buried Beds and Imaginary Cities opening on all dates. Please visit the band’s web site for the full list of tour dates.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.mewithoutyou.com">www.mewithoutyou.com</a> /
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/mewithoutyou">www.facebook.com/mewithoutyou</a> / @mewithoutYou
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information on <b>mewithoutYou</b>, please contact<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Press Here<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">212-246-2640<o:p></o:p></p>
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