Utopia

Name: Utopia
Brand: Heavenly Recordings

Heavenly Recordings

Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, Gwenno Saunders\u2019 first album recorded predominantly in English, Utopia, 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\u2019 fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records \u2014 2014\u2019s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018\u2019s Le Kov, and 2022\u2019s Tresor as \u201Cchildhood records\u.