How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mantra
• ASIN: B00005N53G
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,566 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When the Aim is Beauty, September 27, 2001

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Jerome Langguth (Erlanger, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Audio CD)

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci have been unobtrusively producing the sweetest, most melodic,folk/pop music on the planet for quite a while now. To my ears, this is easily their best so far. Wonderful harmonies, boldly romantic lyrics with not a trace of bitterness or irony, and an ensemble sound that recalls The Incredible String Band at their most focused, all work together to make this one of the most musically satisfying albums of the year. Enchanting.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, March 15, 2002

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WrtnWrd "Hankman" (Northridge, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Audio CD)

On their seventh release, How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart, Welsh neo-psychedelic group Gorky's Zygotic Mynci abandons acid-drenched nightscapes for greener pastures. And I do mean `pastures' - How I Long to Feel... is a gentle idyll in a verdant countryside, simple yet breathtakingly beautiful. Only now that they've arrived does it seem inevitable that this is what they were driving towards all along. These twelve songs, the offspring of the Beach Boys and the Grateful Dead, lilt and shimmer like dew. Or to modernize a sound made of folk styles and pop harmonies, this is what Sigur Ros would sound like if they were stranded on the moors instead of an ice floe. Gorgeous!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars longing and light..., January 31, 2002

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Rob Damm - See all my reviews

This review is from: How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Audio CD)

The album is virtually a concept piece about memory and nostalgia. Sentimental, but in the best way and very sad at times. But, all the longing is not for nothing. The purity and innocence of the summery, day-dream imagery fills this quiet record with a sense of wonder and soul, and ultimtately, I think, makes it a happy record. Listen to it in the dreariest dead of winter and feel your heart thaw!

Certain longtime Mynci fans are going to bark about how this is a sell-out record. We lovers of indie music are a grumbling, quixotic lot and apt to suspect anything that sounds remotely like a bow to popular tastes... that said, early Mynci albums tended toward a lower-fidelity sound and contained a higher ratio of silly and sometimes experimental bits. I'm one of the reviewers who believes this is for the best--- Mynci are just growing up, and waxing poetic about the lost halcyon days of youth-- but, some will spit fire and say they "lost their edge". To each his/her own. Sounds great to me, though.