#myth side one

[writersstareoutwindows]

LONG COURTNEY

The Girl Who Painted Death, MYTH: Side One

WHOEVER FELT MOVED TO SPEAK, MYTH: Side Two

[thunderbottle]

there never was a forest on saint sasha

(anyways listen to myth sides 1 & 2 by the narcissist cookbook)

[barnacles-and-brimstone]

begging everybody i know to listen to myth side one by the narcissist cookbook right now. going feral over it even. rabid. foaming at the mouth.

fairytales + mythology + folk punk + THE THEMES (you’re ok tumblr you know what i mean)

please. not even please just do it.

[the-fishh]

*violently shaking anyone who will listen* NO YOU DONT GET IT!!! THERE NEV- listen to me- THERE NEVER WAS A FOREST!!!!! ON THE ISALND. TTHERE WASNT A FOREST ON THE ISLAND- stop laughing. I'm dead serious. ARE YOU GETTING THE IMPLICATION?????? THE UNIDENTIFIED BEAST? THE "NEVERENDING" FOREST??????? THERE NEVER WAS A FOREST ON ST SASHA'S ISLAND

[lucky-numberme]

made for IG but I feel like the Tumblr weirdos will enjoy this more

[stimmingandstruggling]

hey you like the magnus archives? you like funky genre defying music slash spoken word something??? GO LISTEN TO MYTH (SIDE ONE) BY THE NARCISSIST COOKBOOK RIGHT NOW. IT FEELS LIKE A STATEMENT. AND I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO BE CRAZY ABOUT IT

[gremling4mer]

me trying to explain MYTH to my friends: it's like- okay so there's this island, and a book of fairy tales about a forest, but there is no forest and- well no its not just about fairy tales, it's about the human experience and love and- no you have to listen to it in order, it's important, it's a narrative. what? no it's not a book it's an album. the ending makes me ugly cry every time i hear it. no it's not SAD- well it is pretty sad but it's more bittersweet? it hits an emotional bell I guess is one way to put it. listen dude i know im not making much sense you just gotta listen to it. no you can't listen while playing a video game you'll miss important bits. yeah listening while drawing will work. guys just trust me i can't explain it you just gotta listen-

[whoopseydaisy]

MYTH + stolen songs

HEAVY RAIN ON HOT TIN ROOFS // A ROYAL TOMB

[the-voldsoy]

just listened to MYTH: Side One by Narcissist Cookbook. Really liked it, can't wait for side two! (I am chewing drywall)

[mysticalalleycat]

@narcissistcookbook happy release day congrats on a BANGER album I can't wait for side two holy shit

[foxtail-1311]

the MYTH albums ..save me…

the MYTH albums

save me the MYTH albums

[narcissistcookbook]

MYTH really reminds me of The Starless Sea, a book by Erin Morgenstern. have you read that book? is that a conscious connection? or is my brain just so full of stories that stories about connecting stories all seem like part of the same story to me?

I have it and I read like 10 pages of it a few years ago before getting distracted :( so, there isn't a connection there conscious or unconscious

the inspirations for MYTH (Side One and Side Two) include

- House Of Leaves and The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z Danielewski (I haven't read either of them since they first came out but they stuck with me and had an obvious influence on certain sections)

- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

- the ghost stories of M R James were a huge influence

- the art of Kay Nielson (whose art is used as the cover for the album)

- the first eight tracks of The Lost Songs Of St Kilda (both the vibe of them and the story behind them which is well worth reading)

- oh, and the publicity campaign / narrative behind Bon Iver's first album, which I thought (maybe too cynically) was patronising bullshit at the time but which planted a seed that eventually turned into MYTH

[thevoidandiarefriends]

Holy shit holy SHIT holy shiT

GOD I'm going feral over MYTH side one and MYTH Side 2 and the stranger and Dawn and the narrator and the boy and jack and the BEAST and David Brownley and the choirmaster and Sasha and angels stalking ridges and forests and siblings and parents and children and lovers and gods and GOD the boy wants to be a ghost and the forest wants to be haunted!! Its symbiosis unto codependency because the sea has been bottled and the lighthouse has been automated and the god of time has barely spoken to her in weeks but there's a little kid out there listening to the stories that the people she came after used to tell and they're shaping his destiny faster than he can find his way out of the hall of doors and everyone who's promised they will slay the beasts has disappeared and maybe that's why the beasts are here and your name means gift from god but that only has meaning as long as god lives and as long as you keep being a gift but those around have never given you a choice and

can you really be anything you want from yourself if you are alone on an island that is alive? That is lonely?

Did you start as a ghost? Or a boy?

Did you start loving, or loved?

[not-a-choice]

[stimmingandstruggling]

the girl who painted death was actually made specifically for me. it’s eight minutes. it changes the tone of the whole album. it’s spooky. it simultaneously upholds and overturns the image of the island i had. it’s about sapphics. it’s about life and death and grief. it creates a sense of dissonance between fact and fiction and i’m not sure which is which.

and they lived. happily.

[plant-based-faggot]

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