Release Date 11/07/2025 Format LP Colour/CD Label Heavenly Catalogue Number HVNLP234C/HVNLP234CD 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 pianoballads, 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. CD in four-panel digisleeve with gloss finish and eight-page concertina fold booklet. 140g pink coloured vinyl in gloss finish sleeve with printed inner plus digital download. Tracklist: London 1757Dancing On VolcanoesUtopiaY GathWar73The DevilGhost Of YouSt Ives New SchoolHireth
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