High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! And the Glass Handed Kites is the fourth studio album by Danish band Mew, released 19 September 2005 in Denmark, 24 September 2005 in the United Kingdom and 25 July 2006 in the United States on Sony BMG. This was the last Mew album to feature bassist Johan Wohlert, who left the band the following year to focus on being a father.