We Went Riding

Name: We Went Riding
Brand: Richard James
SKU: GWYMONCD009
Price: 7.99 GBP
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Cat No: GWYMONCD009

Release Date: 21 June 2010

Label: Gwymon

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5055162130091

Genres: Rock

Description
'We Went Riding' is the brilliant new album from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci co-founder Richard James; his second since the cult band went their separate ways. Richard's first, 'The Seven Sleeper's Den', was a slow burning collection of love songs and instrumentals sung in English and occasionally Welsh. Somebody said it sounded like the Velvet Underground with the ratio of New Yorkers to Welsh people reversed, and they weren't far wrong. This follow-up is an entirely different breed, a multi-layered extravaganza that sees Richard letting loose his inner pop auteur. ("I wanted to be ambitious in the production of this album," he says). Together with long time producer / collaborator / schoolfriend Iwan Morgan (aka Recall), We Went Riding enlists some of Cardiff's finest musicians to help realise 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'. Recorded in a house in Pontcanna, Cardiff, overdubbed in various locations around Wales and polished off in Carmarthen, the album reveals the many faces of Richard James, most of which will come as a surprise to those who knew him as the quiet member of Gorky's, the architect of the band's softer side. At times raucous, psychedelic and plugged in, at others gentle, folky and countrified, 'We Went Riding' is a fully realised mini-masterwork.
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