Cate Le Bon's role as producer on
Deerhunter's 2019 album Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? can be heard in both the album's experimental tendencies and organic but distant arrangements.
Le Bon's own 2019 strike,
Reward, had the same balance of strong songwriting and production that blurred curiosity and confusion. The creative friendship between
Le Bon and
Deerhunter's
Bradford Cox takes new shapes on their collaborative EP
Myths 004. At its most straightforward, the seven-song project sounds like what could be outtakes from either artist's 2019 album. Opening track "Canto!" features
Cox in a dramatic double-tracked vocal melody in an arrangement decorated with strums of autoharp, dissonant guitar soloing, and heavy tandem drum kits. "Secretary" has
Le Bon on lead vocals but follows a more otherworldly instrumental style, with bell-like melodic percussion, warped piano, and muted horns giving the song the same alien pallor of
Reward.
Cox comes in with a spoken word voice-over near the end of the tune, hemming together all of its abstract elements with a few calmly delivered words. ~ Fred Thomas