Directed by Martin de Thurah, the official music video for Introducing Palace Players has just been released on Spinner among some other American websites (worldwide release date is tomorrow). This is the first of the three music videos from No More Stories-album by the (aforementioned) acclaimed director – plus Adam Hashemi and Lasse Martinussen as co-directors. As you may remember, Martin de Thurah also directed the Special-video four years ago. We will be interviewing him shortly.

Now, what are those flying black objects with lasers on them? Did you miss seeing Mew themselves in the music video? Well, this was the only one where Mew are absent (the palace players were not exactly introduced), Repeaterbeater and Beach are being released in the coming weeks. All three music videos have already been shot and pretty soon we will see Mew in an old castle and even some hypnotism will take place.

Mew also added the track Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy on their MySpace-page’s music player. Now they have released all four new songs that are currently being played live. This is the track where the 88-year old Mari Helgerlikova is singing in, and the only new song that has been played live with them visual backdrops. We don’t know if Introducing Palace Players, Repeaterbeater or New Terrain ever had backdrops. Just like Special had them, but were never used.

Mew have posted the opening track of the upcoming album on their official MySpace-page. New Terrain is the kind of track that really works only as an intro, Jonas Bjerre told us last month. He also added that this particular track is his personal favourite from the album. Many of you already know that New Terrain is actually two tracks in one. Play it backwards and it reveals an entirely another song called Nervous. Lyrics were posted here last month. As even the title suggests, New Terrain is Mew’s intro to another world – separated from the previous album. No More Stories is a more joyful, happier album compared to the darker And the Glass Handed Kites, released four years ago. If you wonder why this song has an odd ending, it’s only because the first two tracks on the album are connected to each other. The second track being Introducing Palace Players.