Fews grow as a band on this effort by putting their struggle to balance sonic upheaval and messy, ungrounded feelings in the center of every track. One of the strengths of the album is how it moves between claustrophobia and clarity, gracefully switching gears from cluttered, repetitive blasters like 'Anything Else' to more spare (if dour) tunes like 'Suppose' or dreary album standout '97.' Into Red feels distant but still sees the band reaching for more emotionally connective expressions. Angst is the primary emotion on much of Into Red, from the dissociating narration of early-Radiohead-esque album opener 'Quiet' to the grinding, bass-driven 'Business Man.' Fews walk a thin line between dissonance and pop throughout Into Red, always tempering their knotty post-punk impulses with moments of soaring harmony. The song nods to both the uneasy vocal delivery and eerie songcraft of the Pixies as well as the walls of guitar noise implemented by less championed shoegaze acts like Loop or the Telescopes. The terse and moody song finds partially spoken vocals bending around verses before exploding into enormous choruses. Angst is the primary emotion on much of Into Red, from the dissociating narration of early- Radiohead -esque album opener 'Quiet' to the grinding, bass-driven 'Business Man.' Fews walk a thin line between dissonance and pop throughout Into Red, always tempering their knotty post-punk impulses with moments of soaring harmony. Lead single 'Paradiso' highlights some of these shifts in the band's style. Second album Into Red expands on the tension-heavy tones of Means, retaining some of that album's repetitive rhythmic churn while branching out into more dynamic songwriting and exploring shoegazey guitar tones and angular approaches to songwriting.

Working mostly out of London, the band had roots in separate Swedish towns and grew from an online friendship between Malmo musician Fred Rundqvis and David Alexander, who moved from San Francisco to Sweden to start Fews with Rundqvis in 2013. Dark and textural rock outfit Fews emerged from scattered origins with a bold 2016 debut entitled Means.

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