Sanctuary
2003
Sleep/Holiday
About This Album
As trite as it may be, Sleep/Holiday's name is an apt reflection of the album's sound: dreamy and atmospheric, the perfect soundtrack to a quiet fall and winter out in the country. Delicately warm songs like "Happiness" and "Shorelight" are some of the prettiest songs that Gorky's Zygotic Mynci has written, and among the group's most atmospheric too. Aside from the quirky Spanish Dance Troupe-esque outburst "Mow the Lawn," nearly all of Sleep/Holiday trades in the intimate, slightly whimsical folk-rock that the group has been perfecting since Barafundle. On the surface, this approach isn't as challenging or as immediate as their earlier work, but songs like "Single to Fairwater" -- a maple syrup-sweet song with lyrics like "And of all of my boyfriends/Well I hate you the most/To look in your eyes/You're a f*cking disgrace" -- prove once again that the band hasn't lost its edge but has merely changed the way it's used. And while Sleep/Holiday is indeed a soothing album, it's not a complacent one; even though Gorky's Zygotic Mynci has been around for nearly a decade, the band still sounds wide-eyed and on the cusp of falling in love -- or falling out of it -- for the first time.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,6,9 and 10)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.