Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox: Myths 004 12″

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As sure as if it had been mapped in the stars, or written in a prophecy buried deep beneath the sands of the Marfa desert, a collaboration between CATE LE BON and BRADFORD COX was always something of an inevitability. Fourth in Mexican Summers Myths EP series, Myths 004 sees Le Bon and Coxeach a much-revered musical innovator in their own rightfinally united. For both artists, Myths 004 signals a change of tack: meticulousness thrown to the wind as spontaneous, jammy tales of firemen and 5p plastic bags, unbrushed hair and shoelessness and makeup-daubed landscapesall miraculously written and recorded in just one weekroll effortlessly off their cuffs. Though this EP materializes after two individual 2019 album campaignsLe Bons Mercury-nominated fifth album Reward, and Coxs eighth with his band DEERHUNTER, Why Hasnt Everything Already Disappeared? (which Le Bon co-produced)the chronologies are tangled: Myths 004 is in fact a snapshot of the pairs very first meeting. After years of admiring each others work from afar, Cox and Le Bon finally converged on Marfa, Texas in 2018, at Mexican Summers annual Marfa Myths music, visual art, and film festival.