Mythologies

Description

Already primed following the release of the transitional Sunne and Murasaki EPs earlier this year Cheatahs return with their second album Mythologies on October 30th.

Culled from North America, Germany and the UK, this multi-national quartet continue their journey following 2014s acclaimed self-titled album. Ever evolving from their inception, Mythologies is witness to a band that has developed in the interim attributed in no small part to a touring itinerary that traversed the US in three-pronged aural attack with like-minded sonic souls Wavves and FIDLAR. Meanwhile, no less busy this side of the Atlantic saw triumphant dates with No Age and a seemingly never ending European jaunt with Metz which brings us

Recorded over the past year and in hand with their debut, Mythologies takes in a vast array of influences whilst taking its name from Roland Barthes 1957 collection of essays on semiotics and myth. A rollercoaster of sonic thrills the cinematic widescreen brilliance of Channel View, the motoric rhythms of In Flux, the cascading sonic beauty of Freak Waves or the scintillating beauty of Seven Sisters and Signs To Lorelei before the seismic surge finale of album closers Mysteci and Reverie Bravo, its a marked and ambitious departure.

As the band says: We had no permanent base whilst making this album and creating it in so many varied locations undoubtedly influenced us in a positive sense. We felt very nomadic and the sense of freedom inspired us to experimentation.

The newfound sense of freedom has inspired and certainly influenced the self-produced Mythologies. Recorded at various locations in London, Marcs studio home, a monolithic high-rise next to MI5 headquarters overlooking the Thames (one floor above offices that once housed anti-terrorist units in the 60s), a converted church in Ramsgate and the fabled environs of Chemikal Undergrounds Glasgow studio Chem19.