Welsh Songwriter Y DAIL Announces Debut Album ‘Teigr’ Released 5th April 2024

“Perfect pop…reminds me of great Welsh bands like Gorky’s and Racehorses” - Marc Riley, BBC 6music
“Highly melodic intelligent pop songs” - God Is In The TV Zine
“Magnificent” - Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals
“Timeless” - Huw Stephens, BBC 6music
“Single of the week” - Radio Cymru

Welsh Songwriter Y DAIL Announces Debut Album Teigr Released 5th April 2024

Stream Album Track ‘The Piper Pulled Down The Sky’ Out Now

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Select Live Dates + Festival Appearances Announced

Bi-lingual Welsh songwriter Y DAIL (aka Huw Griffiths) is delighted to announce that his debut album Teigr will be released on 5th April 2024, describing the record as “a collection of songs written in my bedroom between the ages of 16 and 19, high on lapsang souchong tea and jaffa cakes.”

To celebrate the news, Griffiths has chosen to share album track ‘The Piper Pulled Down The Sky’ as a first taste of the record, showcasing his enthralling, romantic melodic pop song writing that feels imbued with that very particular Welsh ‘hiraeth’—a mixture of longing, yearning, nostalgia, and wistfulness.

Commenting on the track, Griffiths says: “It's a glam pop song inspired by lines from William Burroughs' sci-fi Western novel The Place of Dead Roads, topped and tailed with Wings-y Moog synth.”

Y Dail (‘The Leaves’) is the musical project of 20-year-old Huw Griffiths from Pontypridd, south Wales. Starting in 2020, the band have released a string of singles which have received excellent reviews and single-of-the-week awards on music blogs and websites.

Forthcoming debut album Teigr has been several years in the making, and is partly inspired by Griffiths’s love of 70s Welsh-language pop he remembers from school discos and his parents’ record collection. He also cites Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Joe Meek, Television and early Prefab Sprout as influences.

With the album’s completion and release delayed by the inevitable pandemic story, 2021 saw the deceptively young Griffiths juggling finalising the record with studying for his A Levels, eventually putting the finishing touches to the record with producer Kris Jenkins (ex Super Furry Animals) at Grangetown Studios, Cardiff in the lull following.

Since then, Marc Riley has championed the band on his BBC 6Music show, calling Griffiths’ songs “perfect pop”, and national treasure Gruff Rhys has called the band “magnificent”, with Y Dail previously performing a radio session for BBC 6music’s Huw Stephens, who has been a long term fan.

Elsewhere, BBC Wales DJ Adam Walton has been a firm supporter, with Y Dail winning second place in Rhys Mwyn‘s Radio Cymru Alternative Chart 2021, and tipped by God Is In The TV Zine for their Sound of 2021. Their 2022 standalone single ‘Whizz Kids’ was released via much-loved Welsh language label Libertino Records (Adwaith, CHROMA, Sister Wives) and featured on Domino Records’ Sound System playlist.

Previously performing live as a duo with his multi-instrumentalist younger sister Elen and now with his live band filled out into a quartet, Griffiths’ disarmingly mature, charming, and precise lo-fi pop wins fans wherever he goes, previously supporting Cardiff natives Papur Wal and appearing at the Swansea Fringe.

This year, Y Dail will be playing at FA Wales Festival and Wales Goes Pop Festival, plus support slots alongside Blue Amber and Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine, with further new music and live dates revealed over the coming months.

Debut album Teigr is released 5th April 2024


Live Dates:
Mar 1st - Cardiff - Tiny Rebel (w/ Blue Amber)
Mar 2nd - Carmarthen - FA Wales Festival, Cwrw
Mar 29th/30th - Cardiff - Wales Goes Pop Festival
Apr 6th - Bristol - No. 1 Harbourside (w/ Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine)

Teigr album tracklist:
1 The Piper Pulled Down the Sky
2 Dyma Kim Carsons
3 O'n i'n Meddwl Bod Ti'n Mynd i Fod Yn Wahanol
4 Silly Boy
5 Clancy
6 You Don't Have To Be Blue Forever
7 Pedwar Weithiau Pump
8 Whizz Kids
9 Y Tywysog a'r Teigr
10 My Baby's in the FBI
11 Tennessee Skies (1956)
12 Feel The Sun
13 Tarth y Bore

Y DAIL online:
https://www.instagram.com/ydailband
https://ydail.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/ydail_