Pictures In The Morning

with songs as gentle as the rolling hills, metronomic fingerpicking and lyrics that mix storybook simplicity with heartbreaking sadness, pictures in the morning is the latest album from gorky's zygotic mynci co-founder richard james. written over two months in the summer of 2009, the album was recorded in two houses in cardiff with producer/engineer iwan morgan. "i record everything now in houses, using every area of the building", says richard. "it makes it hard to do drum tracks live but you can do acoustic ones. the album is meant to be quite low key and intimate as its quite personal."