WHAT SOME OTHERS AVE SAID ABOUT SINGLE……..:

This record left our Mingus feeling ecstatic.

Mucky Sailor: 'Horse' (British Wildlife) Is a limited edition 7" single which is so wrong it's right. A tale of horses found wandering the motorways of England, it is at times disturbing and engaging with turgid vocals part growled, whispered and whined, backed by a sparse musical map of just electric piano and drums. Could be described as part Prog Rock, avant funk, doomcore or just the deranged bleatings of a father and son cabaret duo from another universe somewhere in West Yorkshire. You must own this record, if only for the most surreal artwork, the gurgling, screaming and complete lunacy only freedom of expression allows. My single of the week.

Norman Records

Mucky sailor drop a double a side single featuring 'horse' and 'hello i'm pignoramus'. the sound is a excellent combination of chrome and bbc radiophonics workshop or lightning bolt played on keyboards. good and very limited which is how we like seven inches. on british wildlife records.

Rough Trade

12" HEROES: mucky sailor

by Walter Anka

And so it comes to Mucky Sailor. I heard them for the first time a week or so ago – looked them up and ordered their single directly from Gus, the Roland piano playing roaring whining father of the duo. Steven plays the drums and backs up with the vocalisationing and whingeing of an overzealous son.

The name alone, Mucky Sailor, is quite brilliant…conjures up all sorts of scenarios and I stand by them in name, alone, in order to encourage someone to purchase their single, out on wildlife records and can be bought at www.myspace.com/muckysailor.

To try and categorize them would be futile as is all pigeonhole-ing for the most – but you could put them over there somewhere with Progrock or Lightning Bolt; or Rip Rig and Panic or Blurt with a sprinkling of Norwegian Black Death Metal Fairy Dust and Tony Bennett crooning. It is all these things and if you listen carefully, all the while luring horses into oncoming traffic on the highway…
You could call it dance music too if you want!

26 Reds Magazine

Mucky Sailor

Horse (British Wildlife)

The sleeve of this 7" depicts a 'mucky sailor' in all his naked glory, shamelessly copulating with an obviously female, human sized seahorse which has the end of its tail jammed firmly up the seaman's backside. I mention this only because its disturbing, nightmarish vision is perfectly suited to the unhinged, queasy ravings of the music contained therein. Augustin Bousfield on wildly abused electronic keyboards and Steven Nuttall on flailing drums are Mucky Sailor, but they are also respectively credited with "roaring & whining" and "screaming & whispering".

While 'Horse' has a more or less conventional verse/chorus structure, all the mumbling and shouting make it sound like a pop song constructed by the insane.

Approach with caution, and not at all if you're on hallucinogens or under psychiatric care.

Johnny Ersatz-Culture

SANDMAN