{"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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HEAVENLY RECORDINGS","offers":[{"title":"Limited 140g \"Dusky Pink\" LP","offer_id":53021477241174,"sku":"MRM-01370","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD with 8pp Concertina Fold Booklet","offer_id":53021477339478,"sku":"MRM-01371","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dinked Edition 338 - Limited \"Gold Nugget\" Lp In Gold Mirri-Board Alternative Artwork Outer Sleeve + *Signed A4 Playing Card* + Lyric Sheet + Download (1000 Only) - 1 Per Customer","offer_id":53021477437782,"sku":"MRM-01372","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/feefca7e0d80dde9d75d0919fcc629d8.jpg?v=1775193363","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/gwenno-utopia","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}