
Cover of ASG’s Survive Sunrise (2018) by Malleus Rock Art Lab
Cover of ASG’s Survive Sunrise (2018) by Malleus Rock Art Lab
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
Sleep, Dopesmoker (2012 reissue)
I’ve never been able to get into the band Sleep and, not being a keyly committed core component of the hive-mind, I’m not a fan of dopesmoking either. But this is a good cover by the artist Arik Roper, with a nice Dune-y vibe.
To engage issues around the title of this incendiary intervention, see here:
capno-, capn-, capnod- (Greek: smoke; vapor; sooty) — Wordquests