Album Review :: MYYTHS - Tystnad

MYYTHS

Tystnad

January 13 2014 (Bandcamp)

8/10

Words: Alison Mack


It may still be only January but I've already staked my bet that there won't be many other albums out this year like this one. An orgiastic compendium of seven darkly experimental electronic sounds that in places send as much of a shiver along the spine as a walk in winter along MYYTHS' Brighton hometown beach. Syd and Tiffany who create music under the - perhaps allegorical - MYYTHS umbrella, conjure up the feel of the Scandinavian plains; it's title, Swedish for 'silence' is one befitting for the lo-intensity compositions contained within. Spare of any fluffing or wooliness, it continues as it starts on the opening track 'Hjärta' (the Swedish for 'heart'), like a melancholic funereal procession of automated syncopated textures. Most of the tracks here in fact would not be out of place in a film noir soundtrack, with last track 'Tide' blowing around your eardrums with Tiffany's desolate and forlorn vocals eerily penetrating their way through like some siren emerging from the cold grey depths of the sea. 'Lone' and 'Whirl' are perhaps the two highlights of the album, incorporating percussive sounds to balance the electronic framework. But 'Tystnad' is really something, just over 30 minutes in length, that is quite breathtaking and refreshingly different.