mewithoutYou

mewithoutYou is an Alternative Rock Band signed to Tooth and Nail Records, known for their spoken word Vocals, introspective lyrics and almost hookless instrumentation.

MewithoutYou provides examples of the following tropes:

Animal Motifs: Put in increasing use with each successive album. Notable examples are, of course, "The Fox, The Crow, And The Cookie," the Spider trilogy of songs on Brother, Sister.
- Reaches its logical conclusion in Ten Stories, whose protagonists of the entire album are made up of at least three different animals.
Concept Album: Ten Stories, in a loose sense.
Dead Little Sister: Bear was unfortunate enough to watch his brother die and be thrown aside onto rocks in front of him. Fox may or may not have a dead fiance, but given the amount of symbolism in the lyrics it's still up in the air.
Despair Event Horizon: Another running theme reaching its absolute peak with "January 1979." Mostly averted with It's All Crazy! It's All False!
Epic Riff: On "Silencer."
Fake-Out Fade-Out: Played with in "We Know Who Our Enemies Are". The song ends with a riff that slowly fades out, only to fade back in, before abruptly ending.
Genre Busting: Is it post-rock? Is it folk pop? Is it indie rock? Is it hard rock? All these things and more, with a dressing of spoken-word lyrics.
- Adding to the stew of genres, their earlier work is in the post-hardcore genre.
Grey and Gray Morality: The animals in Ten Stories may have wrecked the circus train, but the humans only show themselves to be less and less sympathetic as the album goes on.
Heroic Sacrifice: Ten Stories begins with Elephant performing one. It didn't end well.
Kangaroo Court: One is set up for Elephant during "Elephant in the Dock."
Mythology Gag: "January 1979" begins with a crash. Three albums later, "February, 1878" opens with a circus train crashing.
New Sound Album: Its All Crazy! Its All False! Its All a Dream! Its Alright! is mostly acoustic with singing vocals and much more upbeat lyrical content.
- Also Creates a Broken Base of the They Changed It, Now It Sucks variety.
- Subverted with Ten Stories, which seems to marry the two styles to general fandom acclaim.
Not Christian Rock: Sorta. In interviews Aaron Weiss comments that his lyrics are almost entirely personal in nature, and not targeted toward any particular audience (religious or otherwise), though his status as a Buddhist and Sufi inspired Christian is evident in almost everything he sings.
- In a sense, the songs detail more the struggles and triumphs of a Christian man rather than being straightforward worship songs.
Tragic Hero: Elephant, in a sense.