When I place a mewithoutYou CD in my disc drive, the "religious" genre automatically pops up. That's fitting, but the band is miles away from the simple praise music you'd find advertised on a late night infomercial.
mewithoutYou do praise God (and Allah), but the band's songs are chock-full of parable, allegory, and imaginative (sometimes amusing) wordplay. They are folkish storytellers who know their bible stories, relate to the Brothers Grimm, and are probably intrigued by Native American creation myths. Songs that feature anthropomorphic plant life making witty remarks will always make me grin: "The strawberry said to the tangerine, 'My face is red but our hats are green.'" I don't listen to much music I'd describe as "spiritual," but I don't need much when I have mewithoutYou.
