Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle (CA)

Barafundle
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Album Details: Barafundle

Release Date:04/07/1997
Label:Polygram Records
UPC:731453612242

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User Reviews: Barafundle

  • Overall:

    Total agreement

    By David Halliwell  Jun 9, 2000

    I agree with the first guy. This is tops. So many ideas. The variation between the songs is staggering, the instrumentation is spot on, the tunes are memorable. It sounds stunning. Gorky 5 (not mentioned on the site) is really good too.

  • Overall:

    A classic

    By Remi O  Apr 11, 2000

    Why they aren't concidered one of the great bands of the 90s is beyond me.

Pro Reviews: Barafundle

  • All Music Guide

    Recorded with the help of Welsh production guru Gorwel Owen and featuring past guests Simon James and Martin Smith from the Wizards of Twiddly throughout on various brass and wind instruments, Barafundle found Gorky's merrily coming to grips with major-label status without a worry. If anything, Barafundle did showcase where the band would go in future years, toning down the crazier side of the group in favor of a calmer, more quietly inventive approach, though not without some high-volume parts. John Lawrence still keeps the fractured side of things going, though it's no surprise he would leave after a couple more albums, taking the more overtly "mushroom" qualities with him -- he still gets in some fun zingers here, though, including the nutty "The Wizard and the Lizard." Otherwise, though, this is an album soundtracking rural Welsh summers that may only exist in myth, but still work well for that. The two singles from the album are both great -- "Diamond Dew," a folk/psych trip with ...a nicely rocking chorus, and "Patio Song," a winning stroll through winsome romance spiked with just the right odd bits ("isn't it a lovely day?/my patio's on fire"). The album as a whole merrily moves along, bringing in a bit of drama here and there ("The Barafundle Bumbler" and its just-edgy-enough verses, the full on electric crunch of "Meirion Wyltt") but otherwise things are sweetly sedate, as with the instrumental "Cursed, Coined and Crucified." Childs' singing is as wonderful as always -- the man was just born to sing in that gentle, honeyed fashion -- while Lawrence's no less fine vocals add just the right glaze to songs like the suddenly medieval "Starmoonsun" and "Sometimes the Father is the Son." U.S. versions added the later single "Young Girls and Happy Endings" as a bonus. - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Sounding like a bizarrely sweet and whimsical cross between progressive rock, psychedelia, and pure pop, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci were one of the most original and distinctive bands to emerge from the vital post-Brit-pop Welsh scene of the mid-'90s. Gorky's music followed unconventional time signatures and structures, as well as instrumentation (boasting everything from dr... Read more