New Music: Y Gath

           

With her new album Utopia due out July 11 via Heavenly Recordings, the Welsh superstar and former Mercury nominee Gwenno shares her new single "Y Gath" (The Cat) alongside a stylish video in which she's seen exploring her feline side, featuring Cate Le Bon and H.Hawkline. A hazy and glorious Cymraeg paean to the cat and the grimy city walls that surround them, the single sounds like spectral feline poetry being delivered at a midnight pagan gathering. Commenting on the track Gwenno says: "Y Gath" means The Cat. I just don't know how I feel about cats, you know? But I also think it's because I am a cat in many ways. I see myself in these creatures and I’m part envious, part disgusted by them. So it’s a song about cats and birds nodding at you, and the style of the song evolved quite naturally into something very familiar and Welsh. And then when I asked H Hawkline and Cate Le Bon to be on it, it just made complete sense. We all knew what it needed to be, because we’ve all grown up on S4C and 70s psychedelic rock music, and Welsh language music. So we didn’t need to have a big conversation, we just know what this is about.