'Magic & Myth' is the second album from Wonderful Beasts, a sound art / electronic music pairing of the anonymous Xqui and Carl Knott (boycalledcrow, Spacelab).. From the elegiac tones that open 'Dreamers' to the closing bars of the strident 'Lucky Man', a triumphal, celebratory outlook can be heard across the thirteen tracks presented here. These are instrumental pieces filled with hope and tenderness. . We hear the bright and delicate folk guitar manipulations that have characterised Knott's work as boycalledcrow and traces of the plunderphonic, out-of-place field recordings and loops that have been a consistent presence in Xqui's prolific output. Holding these disparate elements together is a beatific, bucolic ambient structure, full of lush pads, crystalline melodies, pealing bell-like clusters and exquisite emotional warmth. Special edition translucent yellow smoked vinyl.