Danish progressive space rock band Mythic Sunship will release its new LP, Another Shape of Psychedelic Music, on October 5 via El Paraiso Records. The fearless group creates epic music -- cataclysmic and complex -- that pulls from '60's blues-rock, jazz-rock fusion and the golden era of '70's prog rock, bursting with improvisation and an avant-garde spirit. A six track double LP, Another Shape of Psychedelic Music, follows Mythic Sunship's Upheaval, a critically lauded LP released earlier this year, that brought respected music platform The Obelisk to exclaim, "Bands like this separate the hip from the squares."

In advance of the release of Another Shape of Psychedelic Music, Mythic Sunship unleashes the blazing new song, "Backyard Ritual", calling the sprawling, seventeen-minute-long cut, "a simmering sunlit cauldron" which "draws heavily on electric 70's jazz such as Miles Davis, Donald Byrd and Herbie Hancock" with "clear inspiration from afro-beat music". Stream Mythic Sunship's "Backyard Ritual" at this location (via Music & Riots).

With a band name mingled from album titles by John Coltrane and Sun Ra one might expect Mythic Sunship to be a jazz band. However, this is not quite the case, although the quartet shares a similar sense of exploration and general untamedness with that of the two masters of cosmic jazz.

Spiritually, Mythic Sunship seems connected to present day So Cal psych-rock. Frederik Denning's ferocious drum pounding and Rasmus 'Cleaver' Christensen's thick, Geezer Butler-esque basslines add fuel to an endless pyre of blazed-out, dual lead guitars that Kasper Stougaard Andersen and Emil Thorenfeldt play with extraordinary dexterity, and intensity, dished out with the revolutionary fervor of the MC5. Think Earthless rip-roaring at Mach 10 over a live performance of Miles Davis' landmark 'Bitches Brew'. This stuff is wild.

Recorded in the winter of 2017 with producer / musician Jonas Munk (Causa Sui, Ulrich Schnauss), Another Shape of Psychedelic Music sees Mythic Sunship continue to build its mesmeric framework with the addition of saxophonist Søren Skov, a Coltrane-like player whose leads snake through the group's gargantuan grooves and add an unquantifiable surrealism to its sound. The band's instinctual talents unfurl across passages of light and dark, fast and furious before each composition sluices into an incredible roar of war machine-like power, cacophony and heavy metal ambient insanity. It's like Blue Cheer attempting New Age music, and how cool of an idea is that?

In his liner notes for 1970's aforementioned Bitches Brew, Ralph J. Gleason posited:

"it's not more beautiful, just different. a new beauty. a different beauty. the other beauty is still beauty. this is new and right now it has the edge of newness and that snapping fire you sense when you go out there from the spaceship where nobody has ever been before."

Mythic Sunship creates music that dances with a level of forward-thinking freshness so immediate that it reminds us that the best music, -like the best theater, the best art-always does something you don't expect, in a way that you don't expect. It doesn't have to be radical, it doesn't have to be a wholly new invention, but is has to surprise you in some way.

Prepare to be surprised.

Track listing:

1.) Resolution
2.) Backyard Ritual (feat. Jonas Munk / Music & Riots premiere)
3.) Last Exit
4.) Way Ahead
5.) Out There (feat. Jonas Munk)
6.) Elevation

Pre-order Another Shape of Psychedelic Music at this location.

https://elparaisorecords.com/releases/mythic-sunship-another-shape-psychedelic-music

Mythic Sunship (photo: Trine Pihl Stanley)
Mythic Sunship features Kasper Stougaard Andersen (guitar), Emil Thorenfeldt (guitar), Rasmus 'Cleaver' Christensen (bass), Frederik Denning (drums), with Søren Skov (saxophone) and Jonas Munk. Follow the band on Facebook.

Mythic Sunship is available to speak with interested media. To chat with the band or request a review copy of Another Shape of Psychedelic Music, simply contact Carl Schultz at ACTION! PR.

"Proving that jazz-meets-doom doesn't necessarily have to resemble 'Monoliths & Dimensions' or the glacial-paced death-sax parps of Germany's Bohren & Der Club Of Gore...Heavily psychedelic, with as much of a desert-rock as a doom-rock feel...you don't need to be wearing a bebop beret/monastic robe combo to dig these lively grooves." - The QUIETUS

"stretching skyward with tracks eclipsing the fifteen minute mark. The overall stratosphere the group continues to mine rides the line between heavy, fuzzed out, guitar psychedelia and exploratory kosmische musik. At times a cacophony of thunderous pandemonium, it's fitting their name is lifted from an amalgamation of Sun Ra's "Of Mythic Worlds" and Coltrane's "Sun Ship" - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

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