Bradford Cox and Cate Le Bon - Myths 004 EP Vinyl Record

Fourth in Mexican Summer's Myths EP series (and following previous tie-ups between Dev Hynes and Connan Mockasin, Ariel Pink and Weyes Blood, and Dungen and Woods), Myths 004 sees Cate Le Bon and Bradford Cox – each a much-revered musical innovator in their own right – finally 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 landscapes – all miraculously written and recorded in just one week – roll effortlessly off their cuffs. Though this EP materializes after two individual 2019 album campaigns – Le Bon's Mercury-nominated fifth album Reward, and Cox's eighth with his band Deerhunter, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (which Le Bon co-produced) – the chronologies are tangled: Myths 004 is in fact a snapshot of the pair's very first meeting. After years of admiring each other's work from afar, Cox and Le Bon finally conv