Y DAIL Releases New AA Single 'My Baby's In The FBI’/’Pedwar Weithiau Pump'
Watch the video for ‘Pedwar Weithiau Pump' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkp78ckyzPE
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Bilingual Welsh Songwriter’s Debut Album Teigr Released 5th April 2024
Wales Goes Pop Festival + Select Live Dates On Sale Now
Bi-lingual Welsh songwriter Y DAIL (aka Huw Griffiths) is delighted to reveal his new AA side single 'My Baby's In The FBI’/’Pedwar Weithiau Pump', set for release on 22nd March 2024 on all good digital service providers.
Commenting on A side track ‘My Baby’s In The FBI’, Griffiths says: "There didn't seem to be many love songs about espionage—I felt there was a gap in the market. Also, the subject of the lyric about being in the FBI was a useful metaphor for estrangement. The recording was partly influenced by those early 60s Joe Meek twisted pop productions.”
"This track reminds me a bit of Television with those double-tracked guitars and 70s pop groups like Badfinger,” he continues of Welsh language AA side ‘Pedwar Weithiau Pump’. “There's some Buddy Holly in there too. It’s a surrealistic lyric about fragmented memories, quite hallucinatory.”
The release follows on from previous single ‘Silly Boy’ which was recently made BBC Radio Wales DJ Adam Walton’s ‘Long Song’ of the week, and is the latest to be taken from his forthcoming debut album Teigr released on 5th April 2024.
Griffiths describes 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.”
Fresh from an appearance at FA Wales Festival, Y Dail will be playing Wales Goes Pop Festival later this month, with an album release show on 31st May at The Moon in Cardiff, before a slot at Wales’ annual national Eisteddfod celebration, plus support slots alongside Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine, Group Listening, and Cud, with further live dates TBA.
Debut album Teigr is released 5th April 2024
Live Dates:
Mar 30th - Cardiff - The Moon (Wales Goes Pop Festival)
Apr 6th - Bristol - No. 1 Harbourside (w/ Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine)
May 31st - Cardiff - The Moon (album launch)
Aug 3rd - Llwyfan y Maes (Eisteddfod - Main Stage)
Aug 5th - Caffi Maes B (Eisteddfod)
Aug 23rd - Ty Pawb, Wrexham (w/ Group Listening)
Nov 1st - Cardiff - The Moon (w/ Cud)
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_
More info:
Y Dail (‘The Leaves’) is the musical project of 20-year-old Huw Griffiths from Pontypridd, South Wales, writing in both Welsh and English. 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 lofi pop wins fans wherever he goes, previously supporting Cardiff natives Papur Wal and appearing at the Swansea Fringe.
