{"product_id":"gwenno-utopia","title":"Gwenno - Utopia","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people.\u003cbr\u003eThe disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes.\u003cbr\u003eThere was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub.\u003cbr\u003eLong 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Utopia', Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves.\u003cbr\u003eIf 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.\u003cbr\u003eThese are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone’s daughter and becoming someone’s wife and someone’s mother.\u003cbr\u003eThey range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H.\u003cbr\u003eHawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus.\u003cbr\u003eIt is her finest work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HEAVENLY RECORDINGS","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53207063396679,"sku":"TRI-63329","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":53207063560519,"sku":"TRI-63330","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/042c95198b9b399fe13252907b43ced5_6f239a99-e215-4b79-9b63-0b78b9cad6f3.jpg?v=1769378129","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/gwenno-utopia","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}