My son turns 17 in October, it’s startling to look at photos of him when he saw Mew live in October 2006…growing older happens so fast that it’s never again that huge scary cliff like when you are between childhood and adulthood. Happy Birthday..I know exactly what you mean about the eeriness of the right song at the right moment like a message , I had that exact feeling the first time I heard In Time Do You Forget.

Thank you very much! (Also, I just had a glitch where I clicked “post” and then clicked “reply” on Gustav’s comment right after, and my reply moved to his comment.)

It’s a crazy story. Sometime after NMS came out, my dad and I flew abroad, and I wanted music to listen to on the plane, so I, by random choice, played NMS, which was on my father’s phone (he read a review about it and wanted to check it out, but never did). I thought it was NOISE. The riffs sounded like nothing I’d ever heard, and I despised it. I still remember some of the original impressions, and it was as if they were different songs. I was really curious, but also grossed out.
Around a year afterwards, November 2010, I was sitting with my dad’s laptop on the couch, watching Back to the Future 3, and for some reason I decided to listen to And the Glass Handed Kites, which was on his laptop (for the same reason, probably.) I started listening and I couldn’t believe that I was actually experiencing this. It was so beyond what I’d ever known. I’d fallen in love halfway into Chinaberry Tree. I can still recall which songs I’d heard during which scene. It was an amazing experience. I can’t believe I got to know them just a month after they released new music, and had to wait 4 years for more. That’s my luck, haha