Gwenno - Utopia (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Forty-three 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 — 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.

TRACKLIST

1. Gwenno - London 1757
2. Gwenno - Dancing On Volcanoes
3. Gwenno - Utopia
4. Gwenno - Y Gath
5. Gwenno - War
6. Gwenno - 73
7. Gwenno - The Devil
8. Gwenno - Ghost of You
9. Gwenno - St Ives New School
10. Gwenno - Hireth



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