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Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, 'Utopia' is Gwenno Saunders’ first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting.
Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.
'Utopia', Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records — 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018’s Le Kov and 2022’s Tresor as “childhood records”, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of self-determination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone’s daughter and becoming someone’s wife and someone’s mother. They range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date.
Dinked 338
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Gold nugget vinyl *
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Gold mirri-board alternative artwork outer sleeve *
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Signed double-sided A4 playing card *
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Printed inner sleeve *
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12” x 12” lyric sheet insert *
- Limited pressing of 1000 *
*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
Also available on standard Dusky Pink vinyl and CD.
Tracklisting
1 – London 1757
2 – Dancing on Volcanoes
3 – Utopia
4 – Y Gath
5 – War
6 – 73
7 – The Devid
8 – Ghost Of You
9 – St Ives New School
10 – Hireth
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