Mew - 'The Zookeeper's Boy' (SonyBMG) Released 17/04/06

Not just one of the more accessible moments from Mew’s radiant album ‘Mew and the Glass Handed Kites’, ‘The Zookeepers Boy’ is one of the definitive high points. After the chiming start, Jonas Bjerre’s almost androgynous vocals burst into the fray and as always are positively ethereal, even when he’s delivering lines about ostriches and giraffes.  All this bounces off sweeping instrumental movements, xylophones dinks and gorgeous atmospherics. Really, for sensory consuming near alien soundscapes, only Sigur Ros can arguably better Mew. Music to pierce the soul.