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Welsh Music Wednesday

Dod nôl am wythnos newydd! Shwmae folks, glad you've been liking the Welsh music Wednesday recommendations so far, I've got one of Wales and especially Welsh language music's brightest stars as a spotlit artist for today!

Adwaith are an indie rock trio from Caermarthen in South Wales, made of three school friends Gwenllian Anthony, Hollie Singer (who is, aptly, one of the two singers in the band) and Heledd Owen.

They started out as more of a punk band, writing songs with a feminist punk rock angle, talking about their lives as girls in town (Lipstick Coch is a great song to check out from the time). They wrote as they spoke, a deliberate choice to be more conversational and not feel afraid to make mistakes in their Welsh, as language learners and feel more confident. And Adwaith have every reason to be confident: they are one of the most exciting bands to come out of Wales, and lately they have only been going from strength to strength.

Winning the Welsh Music Prize for their debut album, 2018's Melyn, Adwaith began expanding their sound into more indie and post punk on their second album Bato Mato, inspired by a trip taken by the band to get to a show, on the Trans Siberian Express train. They won the Welsh Music Prize again for that album, and to date that makes them the only artist ever to have won the prize twice!

It also took them beyond the usual boundaries of minority language music: Adwaith played the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury, and were even picked up for a session by the iconic radio station KEXP when they were at the ESNS showcase festival in the Netherlands in 2022.

They've released their third album this February called Solas, and once again Adwaith have taken a bold step. Solas is an all-Welsh language double album, and the band continues to grow sonically: they lean into darker synths, write about life and the world around them, find pockets of joy in the darkness, and just generally have written an album that should be lauded.

Anyway, Adwaith are extremely cool. Here's Solas on Bandcamp, if you like them, go buy their album and support them independently if you can. (Alternately if you're just in the area, they are on Libertino Records.)

I've linked the first song ‘Planed’ (‘Planet’), because it's quite Depeche Mode to my ears.

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"Rat Nebula: The Interstellar Rat Bounty Hunter From Planet Rodentis-Alpha 6B" A rat wave song about a rat bounty hunter named Rat Nebula.

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ғɪʟᴇ: ᴍᴀɢᴀᴢɪɴᴇᴄᴏᴠᴇʀᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʟ.ᴡᴀᴠ (プレイリスト名) ᴛʏᴘᴇ: ᴠᴀᴘᴏʀ (音楽ジャンル) ʟᴇɴɢᴛʜ: 32 ɪᴛᴇᴍs, 2ʜʀ34ᴍɪɴ ʟɪɴᴋs: sᴘᴏᴛ.ᴇxᴇ / ʏᴏᴜᴛ.ᴇxᴇ （ストリーミング）

ғɪʟᴇ: ᴛɪᴍᴇᴊᴜᴍᴘᴛᴏᴏʟᴋɪᴛ2ᴋ.ᴡᴀᴠ (プレイリスト名) ᴛʏᴘᴇ: sʏɴᴛʜ (音楽ジャンル) ʟᴇɴɢᴛʜ: 40 ɪᴛᴇᴍs, 2ʜʀ34ᴍɪɴ ʟɪɴᴋs: sᴘᴏᴛ.ᴇxᴇ / ʏᴏᴜᴛ.ᴇxᴇ （ストリーミング）

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Ig story from last night; today is the Chicago concert!! Comment if you’re going !

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. Cool Guys Crouching on Buildings Anonymous™️ .

Another OC crossover/hangout- but this time with Nova! I think they’d vibe.

Characters Left to Right:

Deltra from Paradoxum Tricker (@trickerblog)

Rafe from Mechanima (@cryptidshadows)

Nova from Prismatic (@ohnoitspheo)

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FPU - "Crockett's Theme" 2000 Synthwave / Electro / Electroclash / Downtempo

If the people who'd made the Miami Vice movie in 2006 wanted to show tribute to the original show with a modern remake of one of its most iconic pieces of music, Jan Hammer's "Crockett's Theme," then they probably should've chosen this tremendous one by Stockholm's Peter Benisch aka FPU. Ultimately, they didn't end up going that route, but one YouTube user here imagined what the flick could've looked and sounded like had they done so. FPU's "Crockett's Theme" is a retro-made delight that sounds part and parcel of the Lynchian-inspired crush of synthwave that came about in the 2010s, but it actually predates that whole movement by about a decade, despite having many of its same hallmarks.

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Welsh Music Wednesday

Helo pawb, wythnos newydd, so Welsh Music Wednesday rec newydd!

This week, I'm introducing you to the synth pop duo Siula, whose name if I'm not mistaken, is pronounced 'Sheila' if you read it in Welsh.

Siula is the project of Cardiff musician Iqra Malik, who usually performs under the name Artshawty solo. She teamed up with producer Llion Robertson for her first Welsh language project, and it's electro-dreampop goodness. They released their first single Ischia back in 2023 and haven't looked back since.

Here they are, performing their song Golau Gwir on Lŵp.

Their latest single, Fallen Angel is a subtle banger. Check it out on their Bandcamp and support them independently if you like!

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Marzella Return With “Bitter Beautiful”

Photo courtesy of the band. Swiss-Italian duo Marzella unveil their highly anticipated single “Bitter Beautiful,” a pop-folk meditation that took root in 2021 and evolved slowly, patiently, revised countless times before being reimagined entirely just one week before its final mix. Out now, the song captures the poignant beauty of imperfection and the gentle melancholy of letting go. Built…

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"Chitter in the Face of Death"

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Surrender - s/t (2020)