[peel] Digest Number 301

[Lee Pilich]

At 18:56 25/10/00 +0000, Tom Roche wrote:
>It's taken awhile but I give up. I don't get Gorky's Zycotic Mynci and 
>never have, try as I may.
>
>Richly detailed, carefully rehearsed, top quality monotony.

I agree with this completely (apart from the richly detailed bit) as 
regards post Barafundle (1997) stuff. Extremely boring, on the whole. But 
for earlier records, I couldn't disagree more. Bwyd Time ('95) is one of 
the records of the 90s, and Tatay ('94) is great too. And I don't think 
anybody who's heard Tatay could accuse it of being "carefully rehearsed." 
But then they moved from Ankst records, and left their producer Alan 
Holmes. Made one good record (Barafundle; thoough it's much more sober than 
earlier stuff) then went all crap. And if I'd seen them last night, I would 
have fallen asleep, I think.

Seems to me that the only interesting bands in Wales any more are SFA and 
Tystion, but there's a lot of stuff I don't know, of course...

LP