Mythos were one of those second-tier krautrock bands that took a ride on the coattails of the genre, but never seemed to contribute anything specific to it; and Dreamlab, their second album, largely confirms that. Some of it can be blandly pleasant - "Dedicated to Wernher von Braun" has a nice suspenseful atmosphere, like being locked in a space rocket waiting for the countdown -, and who knows, if they had dedicated all other tracks also to aerospace engineers - and preferably ones without all the "nazi schmatzi" background (to quote Tom Leher's satirical takedown) - maybe they could have come closer to kosmische realms. The most likely explanation for their failure to launch, though, is still that they just never had enough fuel in them for the takeoff.
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