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GWENNO: Y DYDD OLAF (ALBUM REVIEW) Gwenno Saunders used to front the girl-group the Pipettes. Y Dydd Olaf, her solo debut, is a record about the importance of preserving cultural identity in order to resist corporate death, and on it she establishes herself as a visionary of synth-pop moods and textures.
24 lug 2015 · Y Dydd Olaf CD. Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album. In a period of governmental and cultural transition, former Pipettes front-woman, Gwenno Saunders, releases a political concept album inspired by an obscure 1970s Welsh language sci-fi novel, subtly disguised as a blissful kraut-pop record.
The album is sung predominantly in Welsh with the final track, Amser, being a musical rendition of a Cornish poem by her father, Tim Saunders. Gwenno has said she used the book's title as it had inspired her to return to singing in her first language.
Y Dydd Olaf is a crucial minority language record, but Saunders' beguiling melodies and execution also make it one of the best British debuts of 2015.
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31 lug 2015 · Once an indie star with The Pipettes, Gwenno Saunders has returned to her home town of Cardiff and gotten serious. She may be bemoaning the dominance of technology, but it’s her able ally here. The singer, who not so long ago had a hit with the jaunty Pull Shapes has wrought beguiling new ones.
The debut LP from Gwenno Saunders (formerly of The Pipettes) is, on the surface, nothing like it. It's glittering and electronic, its lyrics and title inspired by Owain Owain's dystopian science fiction novel, and its melodies underpinned with discordant notes and bric-à-brac sonic oddities – but it shares a similarly subversive edge to that ...
