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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D">m</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">ewithoutYou Announce New Album
<i>Ten Stories</i> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Set for Release May 15, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Select Live Shows Begin March 3<sup>rd</sup>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><img width="427" height="342" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CCF7C7.E390C510" alt="mwyBus-lr.JPG"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">(Photo Credit: Ben Sasso)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Megalomania's only mania, if you're wrong.</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""> – “Cardiff Giant” by mewithoutYou<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">mewithoutYou
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">returns with their 5<sup>th</sup> studio album
<b><i>Ten Stories</i></b>, set for release <b>May 15, 2012</b>. A deluxe vinyl edition will be available as well. Helmed by<b><i>
</i></b>producer and friend of the band <b>Daniel Smith</b> (Sufjan Stevens) and mixed by
<b>Brad Wood</b>, <b><i>Ten Stories</i></b> is an allegorical collection of songs that, at first listen, follows a winding narrative about a circus train crash in 19<sup>th</sup> century Montana. But long-time fans of this band know that although we are immediately
introduced to a talking elephant, fox and tiger, there is always more than meets the eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">mewithoutYou
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">– frontman
<b>Aaron Weiss</b>, guitarist <b>Michael Weiss</b>, bassist <b>Greg Jehanian</b> and drummer
<b>Rickie Mazzotta – </b>will be previewing the new songs during a run of <b>select live shows in early March,</b> beginning March 3<sup>rd</sup> in Baltimore at Metro Gallery. A U.S. Spring tour will be announced in the coming weeks.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Ten years into their life together as a band,
<b>mewithoutYou </b>are still searching, and they still compel us to join them in their search. Well-loved for their introspective and eccentric ruminations on life, love, loss, spirituality and temptation,
<b><i>Ten Stories</i></b> is the result of a lot of living and a lot of death. After experiencing the joy of a newborn baby in the Weiss family in early 2010, it wasn’t too long before several deaths of relatives and friends shook the band to its core. They
spent some time apart to live their lives, but it is their deep friendships that always bring them back together again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Reflecting on their history together, drummer
<b>Rickie Mazzotta</b> says, “<i>Think about everything that happens in the course of a decade – death, taxes, scholastics, break-ups, birth, illness, World Series Championships, foggy memories, whack decisions, the loss of innocence, the highest highs and
the lowest lows. We’ve been through a lot together. When we came together to make Ten Stories, it was spawned out of being apart for a while, home with friends and lovers, pursuing other interests and naturally gravitating back towards one another in space
and sound.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">This natural reunion led to the band beginning work on
<b><i>Ten Stories</i></b> with a relaxed approach, leisurely enjoying the summer sun and leaving behind any pre-conceived ideas of what kind of songs they wanted to make. The result is an incredibly expansive album, encompassing where the band has been and
where they are going. <b>mewithoutYou</b>’s last album, 2009’s <b><i>It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright!</i></b>, was a marked departure into the world of folk and written around an acoustic guitar,
<b><i>Ten Stories </i></b>adds the band’s raucous vocals and hard-hitting instrumentation back into the mix. Still present are their melodic overtones and lush orchestration of more recent years, making for a riveting musical journey at the album’s every turn.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Through the fable-like interactions of fictitious animals<b><i>, Ten Stories</i></b> offers up deep ponderings and keen observations about human character flaws and the circle
of life. As the band further explores their signature themes of romantic disaster and quasi-mystical speculation, a naive rabbit falls for a footloose fortune teller and a monastic walrus for a hedonistic owl. A pretentious Fox has a prophetic dream, a starving
Bear has a vision of a martyred saint and an indecisive Peacock and gnostic Tiger learn the virtues of megalomania from an ego-annihilated Potter Wasp. From the urgent suspense of album opener
<b>“February 1878,”</b> to the sweeping drum patterns and gritty vocals of <b>“Grist for the Malady Mill,”
</b>to the psychedelic gem <b>“Aubergine”</b> to the special guest artist on <b>“Fox’s Dream of the Log Flume,”</b> it’s clear that
<b><i>Ten Stories</i></b> is one of <b>mewithoutYou</b>’s most dynamic albums to date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The cover art for
<b><i>Ten Stories, </i></b>which will be<b><i> </i></b>revealed through puzzle pieces on the band’s
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/mewithoutyou">Facebook page</a> over the course of the next week, was illustrated by artist
<b>Vasily Kafanov</b>, who also created the artwork for The Smashing Pumpkins’<b>
</b><i>Machina </i>album.<b> </b>Additional pieces of art by Kafanov will be included in the album layout and an individual illustration of each song will be featured in the deluxe vinyl booklet.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><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"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Ten Stories</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""> Official Tracklisting</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">February 1878<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Grist for the Malady Mill<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">East Enders Wives<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Cardiff Giant<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Elephant in the Dock<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Aubergine<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Fox’s Dream of the Log Flume<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Nine Stories<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Fiji Mermaid<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Bear’s Vision of St. Agnes<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">mewithoutYou Upcoming U.S. Tour Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">March 3<sup>rd</sup> Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery<br>
March 4<sup>th</sup> Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre<br>
March 5<sup>th</sup> Kalamazoo, MI @ The Strutt<br>
March 6<sup>th</sup> Toledo, OH @ Frankie’s<br>
March 7<sup>th</sup> Palatine, IL @ Durty Nellies<br>
March 8<sup>th</sup> Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café<br>
March 9<sup>th</sup> Buffalo, NY @ Tralf Music Hall<br>
March 10<sup>th</sup> Lemoyne, PA @ Championship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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