Gwenno 'Utopia' LP

• Gold nugget vinyl
• Gold mirri-board alternative artwork outer sleeve
• Signed double-sided A4 playing card
• Printed inner sleeve
• 12” x 12” lyric sheet insert
• Limited pressing of 1000

Also available on standard pink vinyl.

Having 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.

Forty-three years into her life, 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. 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 finest work to date.