You may not be aware of the C2 programme tucked away in the night-time hours of the BBC Radio Cymru schedules, but each show is a charming and warm celebration of Welsh indie and alternative bands. The number of unknown gems uncovered for me by C2 runs into double figures, and for that, I truly say diolch am fawr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was thanks to C2 one iPlayer’d morning that I was introduced to the enigmatic and elusive W H Dyfodol. He has been part of the Welsh underground for years, and may have hit peoples collective radar under the guise of Land of Bingo, from whom ‘Lufthansa’ is a beautiful highlight. Now working under the name Y Pencadlys<\/strong> (Welsh for ‘The Headquarters’), he is perfectly cast as the lo-fi electronica champ hidden behind shadows in publicity photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new single, released through the highly enthusiastic Peski Records<\/strong>, combines masked lyrics over discordant echoes and bubbling beats, as the melancholia of the title makes way for a lingering sense of release and relief. That often repeated title, Mae Pawb Yn Haeddu Glaw Yn Waeth Na Fi<\/strong>, is perhaps the least expected earworm of the winter, the distinctive Welsh language working well against the occasionally harsh cuts of the music below. A new album, as yet untitled, is expected in the Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n