barafundle (record store day 2025 exclusive, limited)

Having countryman John Cale label your first-ever commercial release “his favourite album ever” is about as good a start as a Welsh rock band could hope for. And after several subsequent, critically-acclaimed albums on the Ankst label, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci caught the attention of a major label (Fontana) and released this 1997 psych-folk masterpiece. Two singles resulted, both charting: the gently rocking “Diamond Dew” and the twisted pop ditty “Patio Song,” but Barafundle is above all an album, taking you on a benevolently bent journey akin to the Small Faces’ Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (with a side trip of Incredible String Band), which is high praise indeed. For its firstever domestic LP release, we’ve had it remastered for vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and pressed up 2000 copies in jungle swirl vinyl, housed inside a jacket with full-color printed inner sleeve. Put a log on the fire, brew up some mushroom tea, and bliss out.

Track listing:

• A1. Diamond Dew
• A2. The Barafundle Bumbler
• A3. Starmoonsun
• A4. Patio Song
• A5. Better Rooms…
• A6. Heywood Lane
• A7. Pen Gwag Glas
• A8. Bola Bola
• B1. Cursed, Coined and Crucified
• B2. Sometimes the Father Is the Son
• B3. Meirion Wyllt
• B4. The Wizard and the Lizard
• B5. Miniature Kingdoms
• B6. Dark Night
• B7. Hwyl Fawr I Pawb
• B8. Wordless Song