THE ALTERNATIVE WALES SOUNDTRACK #19

Y DAIL

All-time favourite album:
Swoon by Prefab Sprout. A masterpiece. A work of art. Some of the best poetry and music ever written can be found on this record. It’s just so startlingly original; thirty-something years on, it still sounds like it comes from the future.

Favourite Welsh language album:
I could choose Mwng, which is an entire world, but I’ll go with Lle Dwi Isho Bod by Tynal Tywyll. Perfect pop tunes. I love Ian Morris’s voice.

Favourite record by a Welsh band/artist:
Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants. A minimalist, haunting record full of shadows and surrealism.

Favourite new Welsh band/artist:
Mêl and Tacsidermi

3 dream festival headliners:
Ivor Cutler, The Monks, Holy Modal Rounders

An underrated band/artist:
The Sonics – they made the first ever punk record, Here Come the Sonics. Their music shakes you and rattles you.

A song that reminds you of a particular memory:
I remember hearing Editions of You by Roxy Music when I was 6. Eno’s synthesizer solo sounded like elephants escaping from the zoo. In a good way.

Go to album when you’re down:
Mahler’s 9th Symphony, an epic treatise on death and mortality. What’s wrong with the occasional melancholy hour-and-a-bit? That, or Low by David Bowie.

Go to record to get you worked up:
Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys. An electrifying record.

A lyric that resonates with you:
In the event/That this fantastic voyage/Should turn to erosion/And we never get old – Fantastic Voyage, David Bowie

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