Mythical Beast

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 17 Oct, 2008.

Mythical Beats... DOH! Typo.. I mean Mythical Beast Have a CD that's just landed in front of me. I have a brief recollection of hearing a split they did on Not Not Fun... I'm lost for words here. I don't quite know what to make of 'Scales'. Their sound is slow and kinda doomy and the female vocal is powerful but it fails to really draw me in. Brett thought it was some dude trying to sound like Robert Plant. The other office goons have thrown Grace Slick and Cher into the conversation. The pair of numpties have a point in a weird way. It's not all doom and gloom though. This is like some lost 70's dark rock record.

Like a would-be soundtrack to some forgotten Wagnerian saga, Mythical Beast's debut full-length unleashes sonic elements akin to trudging minions in an epic struggle for tonal supremacy. This bloodless battle is for hearts and minds though, and is shot through with majesty and pathos. It's no wonder that a trio commanding this type of simple yet nuanced compositional energy would risk life and limb crossing the New Orleans "security" perimeter one month post-Katrina to rescue their gear from a semi-ravaged practice facility. The fact certainly provides insight into the spirit behind their dread progressions of guitar, bass and vocals. Mythical Beast's music is dank, grim and heavy as hell, but at its heart lies an indestructible momentum and spirit in no small part due to Corrine's Valkyrie-esque presence. All this is an elaborate way of saying that Mythical Beast wield power and majesty with equal acumen.

• Mythical Beast were displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. They now reside in Kansas City, Missouri
• Mythical Beast have released two split 12" LPs on the Not Not Fun label, the first with Pocahaunted, the second with Cloudland Canyon.

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