Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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For their seventh long-player, Welsh pop romanticists Gorky's Zygotic Mynci continue to traverse the pastoral path of their recent The Blue Trees EP, fleshing out the prominent acoustic guitars and pianos with organs, theremin, and the occasional brass flourish. In contrast to the musical mind-fucks of fellow countrymen Super Furry Animals, Gorky's records have always been lovely, lilting and more than a little mysterious. The hushed beauty of songs "Easy Love" and "Let Those Blue Skies," makes you feel like you're eavesdropping on some enchanted forest glade, where assorted elves and sprites merrily meld their favorite parts of Neil Young's After the Gold Rush, E.L.O.'s A New World Record, and the third Velvet Underground LP. If the horrific events of recent weeks have placed a wintry chill in your heart, this gentle record will thaw you out nicely.

DAN EPSTEIN
(September 17, 2001)