7. Gorky’s Zygotic MynciBarafundle
Gorky’s were one of the greats. Whoever the greats of the rock canon are – and it’s no use me bothering to name various people – Gorky’s are as important as any of these people. Euros Childs is a phenomenal songwriter, has a pitch perfect voice and this record is their classic line-up with John Lawrence still in the band. This is also produced by Gorwel Owen and he was perfecting his vision in a way as he was getting more and more into simplicity; the song Heywood Lane was recorded with just one microphone and they bypassed the mixing desk and went straight to tape!
It’s a really great sounding record. It was really bizarre that the singles all charted in the low-40s without ever breaking the Top 40. You could release two versions of a single at the time to get it into the charts but they never did that even though they probably sold as much as chart-claiming people! But the records are there. It’s aged incredibly well and still sounds really fresh and complete.
