Album Review: Cheatahs - Mythologies

For a band touted as having incendiary live shows and be pushing guitar music to the limits, Londoners Cheatahs play on heavily familiar touchstones on second LP Mythologies.

Melding paisley pop (Channel View) to shoegaze (Red Lakes (Sternstunden)) via languid space rock (the decent Freak Waves) watered-down motorik psych (the aptly named In Flux), there isn't much here to surprise or excite. But apart from the occasional spike of aggression colouring the swirling edges (Colorado) and flight of fancy (紫 (Murasaki)), this is a well-made wash of noise without much lasting effect.