search and destroy: gorky's zygotic mynci

Introducing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci is one of the best compilations I have ever heard. So perfectly sequenced that it's hard to believe the songs weren't actually recorded for this end. Search that.

They were very good at that Peel thing.

Gorkys Zygotic Mynci have decided to call it a day and split up.

Richard, Megan, Euros and Pete would like to thank everyone who came to the gigs and bought the records over the years. The re-issues of the first three Gorkys albums - Patio, Tatay, and Bwyd Time - will go ahead as planned and will be released before late 2006.

:-(

This is shit news, first band break up I've been upset about in ages!

And slightly bizarrely, it's currently the number 2 story on the BBC online entertainment news page. Hmm.

Actually, Spinal Tap was at the forefront.

"I say: oren, mefus a chadno!"

We were listening to something the other day (not sure what it was exactly) from when they were really really young where one of their dads comes in at the end of a song and yells at them for the noise. It was great.

Hahaha, I'm listening to that very collection (Patio) and waiting for that moment.

"Keep the noise DOWN."

That's it! It's so funny.

"That's your last warning, it does not need to be that loud. Especially the bass!"

Hahaha, yes! Damn noisy bass guitars.

That's kinda awesome.. I wanna hear.

Patio's kind of awful. Or it was last time I listened to it. Tatay through to Spanish Dance Troupe all great, and the two (or three?) after that have their moments.

Whatever happened to the Ankst-era reissues (I guess they fell out of the back of whatever happened to Sanctuary records)?

Last night, out of the blue I dreamt that someone was asking me what this band's name translated as. I spent a good deal of time racking my brain trying to remember and came up with nothing.

Gorky's Zygotic Monkey.

Let's Get Together (In Our Minds) = best thing they ever did.

I remember seeing them support The Fall - Merched Yn Neud Gwallt Eu Gilydd (Girls Doing Each Other's Hair) was either out or just about to come out. They were all really young and they were utterly fantastic. That 7" probably remains my favourite thing they've done.

Liked Tatay as well, and I have a sentimental fondness for Fresher Than the Sweetness in Water.

I saw Euros Childs play a bunch of new songs on Sunday, he seems to be trying to reinvent himself as a kind of Welsh indie John Shuttleworth

My favourite of what I've heard is "Barafundle", which sort of captures all of their early to late ideas and affectations meeting each other head on - so you get folk and pop and psych and garagey rock and weird wizard stuff.

So OTM. I really need to get some more Gorky's on my itunes - I think all I have on there right now is Bwyd Time. I like the schizo/wizardy & pastoral sides pretty much evenly & think both are represented best by the If Fingers Were Xylophones & The Blue Trees eps respectively.

I saw them live once, in 2003 or so, & there were literally about 20 people there. I felt bad for Euros for all the usual unheralded genius-denied-proper-appreciation reasons, but the poor attendance didn't phase the band b/c they played an excellent set which culminated in a 20+ minute epic closing performance of "In the Heart of Kentucky!"

"the blue trees" is so, so impressively beautiful. i'm really happy that i discovered this band when i did (like a week ago), 'cause listening to the blue trees as the summer's winding down is perfect, man.

besides this i have only heard bwyd time and patio. bwyd time is more consistently hilarious (i mean, it's booty time) while the humour in patio is imagining this band of welsh kids playing these fucked-up noisy jams, and then their parents come in and yell at them to turn it down lol. but i prefer patio for its garage-y rocking-ness, even though i am more glad that the evolved into making beautiful folk music than i would be if they had continued being a rock band.

can't wait to finish listening to every album by this band, though. they are fantastic.

btw found this searching for a gorky's vs. ween thread.

*been very prolific

i’ve loved a lot of those Euros albums - his recent all covers album was especially good. It’s just prohibitively expensive to order the LPs in the states.