“Patio Song” by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

"Patio Song" was the first single Gorky's Zygotic Mynci pulled from Barafundle, the Welsh psychedelic-folk oddballs' fourth album, which landed in April 1997 bearing the name of a Pembrokeshire beach. No Gorky's single ever charted higher in Britain: it stopped at 41 early that year, and it made John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1996.

Euros Childs wrote it and sings it, and he's all over the keyboards as well: piano, Hammond organ, Moog and synthesizer. His sister Megan plays violin, Richard James covers bass, keyboard and synth, John Lawrence adds electric guitar and Euros Rowlands percussion, and the band produced and mixed it with Gorwel Owen. It's a gentle, homespun corner of a record that wanders between twee-pop and old folk tradition.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.