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Available with Vinyl records London. Signed Merchandise Band Merchandise GWENNO 43 years into her life, Gwenno 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 2014s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018s Le Kov and 2022s Tresor as childhood records, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of selfdetermination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someones daughter and becoming someones wife and someones mother. They range from floorfillers 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.1. London 17572. Dancing on Volcanoes3. Utopia4. Y Gath5. War6. 737. The Devil8. Ghost of You9. St Ives New School10. Hireth
