Slow Exploding Gulls have always been one of my favorite bands and Yr Wylan Ddu (1996) is one of my favorite albums by these Exeter esotericists. The cover is one of their best too:

Yr Wylan Ddu (1996) by Slow Exploding Gulls

Yr Wylan Ddu is Welsh for “The Black Gull”. But it’s become a white gull to celebrate the album’s twenty-fifth anniversary:

Yr Wylan Ddu (2021 re-issue)

Elsewhere other-accessible

• Mental Marine Music — an introduction to Slow Exploding Gulls
• Slow Exploding Gulls at Bandcamp
• Gull-SEG — the oldest and best Slow-Exploding-Gulls fan-site