RAVEN SINGS THE BLUES has posted a kick ass compilation that we contributed an exclusive track called 'BIG SKY' to...

We recorded the song with Justin Wright (Expo '70) a while back...

You should go to http://ravensingstheblues-presents.blogspot.com/

and you can download the whole comp with art...

The comp includes awesome tracks from White Rainbow, Wet Hair, Sic Alps, Blues Control, and Plastic Crimewave Sound, just to name a few...

Hope you enjoy!

P.S. there are still copies of "Scales" available on vinyl from notnotfun.com.

Get 'em while you can!!!!

P.P.S. We're (Corinne & Jeremiah) moving to Philly in 2 weeks!!!

SOOOOO BADAAAASSS!
BRITT & AMANDA DO IT AGAIN.
THESE ARE TRULY BEAUTIFUL.


Mythical Beast

Scales

NNF151—LP ($13)

One of our favorite covens comes home to roost; break out the champagne/goat’s blood. We’ve long been fans-turned-fanatics of nomadic power trio Mythical Beast’s burned-out blackened sabbath songs, but even our mountainous expectations for their long-awaited debut were toppled by the reality of Scales’ reptile alchemy. Financed by Greg Weeks of Espers and tracked in a legit East Coast studio on generous banks of sick vintage gear, this 8-song LP is the aesthetic culmination of nearly four years of tours, trials, and twilit travels to the heart of the heart of the country. The results rip. Drone-ballad classics from their haunting 2006 demo like “Cycle/Circle” and “Chaos Spinner” reappear here in freshly realized forms, alongside a hefty handful of brand new tunes, ranging from quaking soul vox torch trancers to ritual string psych-rock skeletons. All pressure points are hit. The M Beast white magic wonder wheel is alive and hell-bound. Easily the high point in a discography already full of highs. Transparent yellow (streaked with black) vinyl LPs housed in glossy jackets with a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 500. CD edition available on Language Of Stone.

notnotfun.com

We're humbled by the thought...

http://ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com/search?q=mythical+beast

(don't know how to make it a link...cutting and pasting ((sorry)).

(been listening to Grouper ((4 on the list)) everyday).

Check check it!
Not bad for a no (literally) budget, no graphic design knowing (literally) group of techno-phobes huh?

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/2008-Top-25-Album-Covers-of-2008

Mythical Beasts' debut full-length album on Language of Stone will be released October 21st. Buy it or you will never get laid again.

We're on tour right now. Ever heard of judgment day people? Come see us when we're in your town or your very spirit could be in peril. Did we mention that the first 100 people that show will get a free soul blow... un. be. lievable.

Here's what some people had to say about the album....

The Fader Freeload: Mythical Beast, "Cycle/Circle"
We're not going to say we don't hear some similarities to Black Mountain's downward spiral of heavy Black Sabbath influenced psych in Mythical Beast's, "Cycle/Circle," but any song that has us googling cheap fog machines can't be disappointing. Make no mistake though, this is not party jam music, once we get the fog machine we actually plan on going to our mom's basement, turning on the fog and sitting on a couch blasting this at unreasonable volumes until we can't see or hear anymore. Alternately, we might just listen to it on headphones while perusing the many goods on the Language of Stone website.

Raven Sings the Blues, Mythical Beast 'Scales'
Following a couple of great splits on Not Not Fun, Mythical Beast finally have a full length under their belts. As the fates would have it they've landed on Philly's finest; Language of Stone, for their first album Scales. The band recorded it with Greg Weeks at his LOS headquarters/studio in Philadelphia and to be honest these are some of the strongest Mythical Beast tracks I've heard yet. Still steeped in the darkest recesses of psych's heart, the tracks smolder with scorched earth and the black taste of doom. While atop the slow churn of guitars and the death march of drums, Corrine's vocal wail heralds in end times with the passionate force of a call to arms. But there is light at the edges of Mythical Beast's universe and though the themes are dark there's a sad hope that looms present behind the clouds of destruction. Again I'm earnestly awaiting the issue of so many of Language of Stone's releases on vinyl and this is no exception; music of this caliber deserves nothing less. The band has pulled itself to the forefront of modern psychedelia, and this album will more than likely serve as a jumping off point for great things to come.

Impose Magazine Listen: Mythical Beast, 'Scales'
Get doomy with a song by Mythical Beast, a trio of Kansas City heavyweights.
Here's a track from Mythical Beast's upcoming debut album, Scales. All its tracks where recorded on vintage gear- a 1970s 2-inch MCI 24 track tape machine, and mixed on a 1980s DDA console, which, if you ask me, if a little anachronistic of them. 1980s? Please. This track is a slow burner straight outta 1971 or 72, that fateful cross section of time when both Sabbath and Zepelin released "Volume IV" albums.
While these Mythical Beasts are probably channeling something no-less mysterious then their forefathers of heavy, their witchcraft's certainly a lot closer to the rootsy sources of their doomy rock: Kansas City-based by way of Austin by way of New Orleans by way of Olympia.

Acoustic Music, Mythical Beast Scales: What first hits you right between the eyes in this group is the presence of Corinne Sweeney, who has a helluva voice, powerful and wild. Then the rough and ragged guitar of Jeremiah Orndorff Cowlin stomps into the room and sets up a thick sludgey dungeon of fog and demons while Aaron Lee Hawn carries the rhythm section on bass (and synth, when it appears). Like labelmates Heavy Hands (reviewed here), Mythical Beast is a power trio carrying a few sonic affinities to stoner rock but with unorthodox compositions starting out in standard refrains refusing to resolve in the expected ways, more a sophisticated operatic exercise during a Druidic rite of passage.None of this is polished beyond a certain threshold—which is quite attractive to those of us who relish the everything-AND-the-kitchen-sink days of the old Whiskey-A-Go-Go, Troubador, and etc.—but it's definitely experimental, willing to take risks, and, by that, charts territory basically uncovered by much of anyone. There's a Nico-ish element (River Blindness, Chaos Spinner), though the late chanteuse would never wail like Sweeney, and faint traces of Gomorrha, perhaps Pere Ubu antedating itself, and God only knows what else. This unit doesn't lean heavily into influences but rather finds ways to build new platforms. Thus, while you get the fuzz drone of the drugstate sound, don't expect the standard change-ups or resolves. Mythical Beast pulls their extensions well beyond middle-eights and variations, even to Hawkwindish buzzes and layered repetitions (Eyes Into Space). It's not a surprise that such a combo would land on the Language of Stone label, a venue that has already well overthrown older prog-psych ventures like Reckless Records (Black Sun Ensemble, Bevis Frond, etc.). In a strange way, what the trio is doing here, deconstructing and re-establishing territory, even has sympathies in the work of ensembles like Thinking Plague. I suspect, too, speaking of unusual moves, that the cool Tanz Der Lemminge photo beneath the disc plate is no accident and a tip of the hat to that estimable group. I haven't a clue how to categorize Scales. I like it a lot, but I'm warning ya: whatever you think it might be, it ain't that.

Cloudland Canyon/
Mythical Beast

NNF122—12" ($12)

This fair pairing has been in the wings for a few years now by our count, but tripped things come to those who wait, so better late-as-shit than never. Cloudland Canyon have been spanning geographies (Brooklyn, Germany, Memphis) and genres (krautrock, drone, psych-pop) since at least 2002, but only recently has their technological studio-sorcery began to gather steam and affect the more far-flung populations (powered in no small part by their partnership with Kranky Records). Anyone who's gotten lost in CC's latest, Lie In Light, knows this duo is currently at the pinnacle of their potency, and their offering here ("Harvest Hunt") is a fantastic mechanical motorik ascent into symphonic hypnosis. Comparisons to classic Teutonic psych outfits of yesteryear are warranted but inadequate: this is music of today, for tomorrow. On the flip, beloved Not Not Fun in-laws Mythical Beast return to the vinyl spotlight with two luminous soul meditations conjured during the past winter's grey maze of days. Both ballads burn with Corinne's voice-for-the-voiceless defiance, wind-draped and incensed by Jeremiah and Aaron's subtle electric string energies. Naked music for open spaces, empty skies, endless nights. High-audio 45 RPM LPs (NNF's first!) in matte-jackets with cloud-skull artwork by Blackblack beauty Diva Dompe. Edition of 415.

AVAILABLE AT NOTNOTFUN.COM!!!!!

update...

1. mythical beast leaves tonight on our journey to philly. we'll be there for two weeks recording our full length album for Language of Stone/Drag City at Hexham Head Studio. While we're there you can be sure we'll be eating some cheesesteaks(with whiz)

2. we got a new van. its a road warrior. TV/VCR/Queen size bed/radar detector/tape player-radio-cd player(old van had none of these basic amenities)/cabinets/built in cooler/built in garbage can/clip board/KC Chiefs stickers...ect

3. West coast tour starting mid july. Playing Diamond Days Fest again this year but this time in Oakland CA on july 19th with yet another amazing line up. Hit us up if you have any ideas for places you want to see us play. west coast bands get in touch.

4. Full on U.S. tour in early/mid fall.

5. Split record with Cloudland Canyon on NotNotFun available any day now.

love

Mythical Beast

Folks,

1) We're all still alive in america's elusive middle west... settling into seasonal rhythms.

3) Our van was stolen months ago...(when it was hot)... we read this as a sign to sit still for a bit.

4) So, we're writing songs (while it's cold)... recording in March.

5) The record will be released on Language of Stone...(Greg Weeks, drag city)

6) Tour, summer/ fall 2008

* Note: Those indefatigable folks at Not Not Fun are brave enough (once again) to put mythical beasties' sonic forays into the teonanácatl One-Mind out into the world. Our split with Cloudland Canyon (georgeous meta-melodies) will be out soon. Check here or on the Not Not Fun site for official information on the release.

Love,
Mythical Beast

So we flew to New York last weekend to play a show in Brooklyn for the Diamond Days Fest.
Midwest airlines gave us cookies on the way. The fest took place in the Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint. We arrived with no idea of what to expect.
Friday night was a quietish night of music with folky acts from all over. We were antsy from the day of travel and mostly wandered around looking for food. Other than closed Polish restaurants, there weren't many options, so we drank lots of free Brooklyn Lager. The show got shut down early cause apparently old polish people hate folk music.
From the fest we schlepped (that's yiddish) all our crap to some bar for an after-party where Corinne promptly found a corner booth and fell asleep. The funny brownies we ate earlier in the evening had an effect more like ambien than thc. We finally made our way across the street to Jay Diamond's girlfriend's apartment where we met Jay Diamond's shaggy dog. People in New York have really small apartments. Corinne, Aaron and myself, along with Jay Diamond, Jay Diamond's girlfriend, and Jay Diamond's shaggy dog went to sleep in Jay Diamond's girlfriend's very small bedroom in her very small apartment. We all slept great.
In the morning, we schlepped all our stuff back to the church and went to an open Polish bakery for some polish bakery breakfast. The polish people hated Corinne immediately. Aaron ate a croissant. Corinne and I ordered some piroshkis. For some reason the polish people "couldn't boil" them (perhaps boiling conditions were unfavorable) so they came out on plates floating in about an inch of grease. Fuckin' delicious. Constipation day 1.
We drank us some beers and watched some bands and walked to Williamsburg (twice). We decided against $12 hamburgers for lunch. We ate some cheap middle eastern food instead. I walked in on the cook while he was pooping. We walked back to the church and watched some more bands. Then we watched some homeless dudes fight in the park. When they got tired of punching each other while standing, they sat on a bench and punched each other while seated. Brilliant! Then we watched some more bands.
End Installment 1.