{"product_id":"utopia","title":"Utopia","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, \u003cstrong\u003eGwenno Saunders\u003c\/strong\u003e’ first album recorded predominantly in English, \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e, presents a very different side to her life and songwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e, Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records — 2014’s \u003cem\u003eY Dydd Olaf\u003c\/em\u003e, 2018’s \u003cem\u003eLe Kov\u003c\/em\u003e, and 2022’s \u003cem\u003eTresor\u003c\/em\u003e as “childhood records”, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e captures a time of self-determination and experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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 \u003cstrong\u003eCate Le Bon\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eH. Hawkline\u003c\/strong\u003e, and encompass \u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake\u003c\/em\u003e, a favorite \u003cem\u003eEdrica Huws\u003c\/em\u003e poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heavenly Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51580232761675,"sku":"R8423-4297","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Pink","offer_id":51580232794443,"sku":"R8423-8071","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot2025-04-04at15.35.02.png?v=1743777316","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/utopia","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}