2010 release, the sophomore solo album from the co-founder of Welsh nutters Gorky'z Zygotic Mynci. We Went Riding is a multi-layered extravaganza that sees Richard letting loose his inner Pop auteur. Together with long time producer/collaborator Iwan Morgan, We Went Riding enlists some of Cardiff's finest musicians to help realize Richard's vision, including Gorky's bandmate Euros Childs and singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon, who adds her bewitching vocals to the album's beautiful closing track 'From Morning Sunshine'. Proper.
Richard James, bass player and founding member of the defunct Welsh prog-rock band Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, has stepped into the spotlight since the ban...
Duncan Gillespie - 28/Jun/2010
Former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci man James is the master of that sort of gently eerie psych-folk whimsy that is to Wales what kohl-eyed chilly ’60s pop pa...
Nicola Meighan - 16/Jun/2010
This second solo album from Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci co-founder James is a fairly infectious, ribald traipse across drowsy folk, garage-rock and pub R&B....
Jude Rogers - 16/Jun/2010
In the 1990s, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci were a peculiar Welsh group, influenced by prog and psychedelia, that nearly made it to the mainstream thanks to t...
Helen Clarke - 15/Apr/2010
Back in the mid 1990s Richard James was at the forefront of the burgeoning Welsh indie scene. As a founding member of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, he bucked...