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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Hen Ogledd, the music project that includes Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington was produced with Sam Grant.
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- Record Label: Domino Recording Co. Ltd.
- Genre(s): Alternative, Experimental, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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UncutFeb 19, 2026A truly singular record. [Mar 2026, p,33]
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Record CollectorFeb 19, 2026Hen Ogledd make music on their fifth album which feels rooted in something more timeless than simple pop. [Feb 2026, p.101]
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MojoFeb 19, 2026Dizzying stuff. [Apr 2026, p.91]
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Feb 19, 2026It’s a smile-inducing, healing experience, one which reminds you of all the good-weird in the world, rather than the bad-weird, which so often seems to be winning in these strange, discombobulated days.
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Feb 20, 2026As well as the placard slogans, there is fantastical bucolic storytelling, about a steadfast horse called Clara, a meeting of spirits at a millpond on the awe-inspiring 20-minute song Clear Pools, and the psychedelic doom-vision of Land of the Dead, the latter delivered in Davies’s gorgeous Welsh poetry.
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Feb 27, 2026It conveys the confusion and frustration of living in a 21st-century reality that conspires against the reassuring normalities of everyday life. Hen Ogledd meets this challenge with humor, defiance, and playfulness, resulting in music that’s colorful, chaotic, and occasionally deeply moving.
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Feb 19, 2026The album sways more into the meandering rather than the conclusive – perhaps an observation on the unpredictability of life itself, but nevertheless leaving things feeling somewhat stunted.