Description
| 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 recordedpredominantly in English, and presents a very differentside to her life and songwriting.
Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been manypeople. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage LasVegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes.There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, astint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long beforeshe would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in bothWelsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, anominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh,there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irishdancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.
Utopia, Saunders fourth solo album, is an extraordinaryexploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards herfirst three solo records – 2014s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018s LeKov and 2022s Tresor as childhood records, rooted inher upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, thenUtopia captures a time of self-determination andexperimentation.
These are songs of discovery, of the years between beingsomeones daughter and becoming someones wife andsomeones 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 finestwork 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 1757
Dancing On Volcanoes
Utopia
Y Gath
War
73
The Devil
Ghost Of You
St Ives New School
Hireth
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