Mythical Beast / Pocahaunted LP

NNF076

 

If the body is a temple, then the human voice is the Om pulsing within the architecture; and if the body is a corpse, then it’s the afterlife ghost-mist hissing up from the dirt. Either way, it’s a force, and this split LP spotlights two of today’s cooler vocal ritualists. Drone gypsies Mythical Beast have spent the last few years drifting from N’awlins to Austin to Kansas City, and their piece here (“Gone to Grey”) throbs with a weary hypnosis, too many nights spent staring into foreign freeways, alien landscapes passing in the dark. Blues for the rootless; homeless feedback curling up by the side of the road. Pocahaunted, too, beckon the dead, turning in a crushing, low-lidded amplifier chant of clanging guitar and primitive distortion. “Swayed Tongue” treads even deeper into the forests of noise they explored on Native Seduction, bathing their tribe-song shawls in rivers of electricity and twilight static. Opaque violet LPs in pro-printed jackets with wild colored-pencil tomb rumination artwork by NNF’s favorite color dreamer, Devon Varmega, plus an eagle feather. Direct mail-orderers also receive a bonus MB/PHAUNT split C22 with exclusive material by each band, available while supplies last). Limited to 380.