- Audio CD (25 Aug 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sanctuary
- ASIN: B00008YGWO
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 44,873 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Waking For Winter |
| 2. Happiness |
| 3. Mow The Lawn |
| 4. Single To Fairwater |
| 5. Shore Light |
| 6. Country |
| 7. Eyes of Green, Green, Green |
| 8. The South of France |
| 9. Leave My Dreaming |
| 10. Only Takes A Night |
| 11. Pretty As A Bee |
| 12. Red Rocks |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Sleep/Holiday sees Gorky's Zygotic Mynci move further away from their mystical psychedelic roots towards a more hankering, bucolic indie-folk while continuing to scan the hazy musical skies of 2001's How I Long to Feel that Summer in My Heart. Although these songs don't always dispel or pierce the grey clouds of ordinariness--"Eyes of Green, Green, Green" plods and drags a little--there are enough spiritual shafts of sunlight to give Gorky's fans their expected dose of Vitamin D.
The acoustic drones of "Happiness" set a pleasantly drowsy mood, while "Shorelight" is as satisfying as a post-prandial nap in the deckchair. Things take a strange turn, however, with the relative rock & roll mania of "Mow the Lawn", as if the band, in a fit of cider-induced whimsical frenzy, has decided to raid the garden shed and run amok with the hardware. The episode is short-lived, however, with the near-static beauty of "Pretty as a Bee" and "Red Rock" restoring a sense of Gorky's mission to recreate in song those lost, rural summers of our dreams, memories and fantasies. The odd grey spell apart, they just about succeed here. --David Stubbs
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This new album from much under-rated Gorky's is quite possibly their best since major label debut "Barafundle". The album is the perfect soundtrack to a hazy summer's day and can't help but make you feel all warm and cozy inside! Quite simply, anyone with an ear for good music should own this. Its unmissable- if only the general public knew what they were missing!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I won't comment on the excellent Euros Childs songs here, as they have already been covered by the other reviewers. Instead I want to write about Richard James, who has always been one of the songwriters in the band but who didn't really come to the fore until How I long ... (the early Eating Salt Is Easy being a fine exception to this rule!). On this album, with Shorelight, I feel he achieves greatness for the first time. His distinctive, classically-influenced guitar style, which is present throughout the main body of the song, is beautifully offset by the last, strumming, wordless section, which builds and builds until it can't build any more, then bows out gracefully without outstaying its welcome. I don't know if the violin in this section being so quiet was entirely intentional (I was saddened to see that Gorwel Owen only had a minimal input on this album, a first for Gorky's) but it works, somehow adding rather than diminishing its haunting power. Listening to the album for the first time, this was the first song to really deeply excite me and make me think 'Wow!'. Of course other songs on the album deserve this praise as well, but I think it's worth making a big deal about James's biggest achievement to date! May he continue to flourish.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is so wonderful! Happiness is one of Gorkys' best songs ever, and contrary to one review, the patience needed to get through Pretty as a Bee is exceedingly rewarding. I can only think of "Foot and Mouth", from The Blue Trees, which comes near to this recording. But the stuttering link after the drone of the verse grabs your attention, even though it is only one organ, just like the verse! You just need to be patient and open-minded. And "Pretty as a Bee" ends with a "proper" song which actually feels like a wind down after the faintly uneasy first six minutes or so.
This is again contrary to the other review, but "Red Rocks" emerges as a most beautiful ending to the album. It is very quiet and sad and is perhaps the highlight of this album along with Happiness.
The charm of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's early stuff remains in Sleep/Holiday, but the ego has left and now they are fine band, and they should be cherished because a band like Gorky's is very rare these days.
This is again contrary to the other review, but "Red Rocks" emerges as a most beautiful ending to the album. It is very quiet and sad and is perhaps the highlight of this album along with Happiness.
The charm of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's early stuff remains in Sleep/Holiday, but the ego has left and now they are fine band, and they should be cherished because a band like Gorky's is very rare these days.
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absolutly one of the best
When I first listened to this album, I found it pleasent enough but didn't think that I would come back to it that often. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2005 by Mr. G. W. Griffiths
Gorky spark
Sleep / Holiday shows that Gorky's are still capable of poodle rockin' (as on Mow The Lawn, in which Euros talks of how his true love wishes him to get his hair cut because he... Read more
Published on 8 May 2005 by knowledeayton
beautiful
at first i was slightly dissapointed by this album, it is somehow more sparse and muted than their previous work. Read more
Published on 9 July 2004 by "debaser@etoast.com"
Well my true love Maggie said the grass is getting shaggy
Gorky's are great! This, their newest album, is a beautiful folky album. Yes, it is very different from their earlier rawer sound but it is a fantastic album in its own right. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2003 by "benifur"
gorky's just keep gettin' better!
This new album from much under-rated Gorky's is quite possibly their best since major label debut "Barafundle". Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2003 by D. J. Kidd
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