Jonas Bjerre isn’t quite sure where he’s headed today. He’s in a cab, somewhere in Tokyo, and if he’s correct, he’s on his way to a radio show to talk about Mew‘s seventh full-length album Visuals. In the 20 years the Danish experimental rock act has been making music together, Visuals takes them to different heights, starting off with the fact that they switched up their traditional process by executing the visual aspect of the record first before seeing how these images translate into music. They even broke through their 3-4 year habit of holing themselves away in the studio, delivering Visuals in just two years, after serving 2015‘s + –. “We just felt like,  if we do it the normal way, it’s gonna be another three or four years before we get to do it  again’,” Bjerre says. “If you keep doing it like that, ultimately you make a handful of albums  and then you’re ready for retirement.” Before reaching his destination, Bjerre spoke with BillboardPH about Visuals and everything it takes to pursue one’s passions. Tell us about the visual aspect of Visuals. The album art is extraordinary, and I’d like to know a little more about the meaning […]
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