The Welsh-language band return with a set dominated by the exquisite vocals of Lisa Jên, who also adds piano and wrote many of the lyrics and melodies. At times, it sounds like a solo album. Ifan, a gently pained song of parting, starts as a piano-backed solo and adds a wash of harp and other instruments, while Heno is constructed around layers of vocal tracks – a technique repeated on the traditional Sri Hwi Hwi, with the effective addition of bass and percussion. Elsewhere, the sturdy and rhythmic Cyfaddefa explores the themes of Greek rembetika songs. This cool, classy set is accompanied by an ambitious if uneven spoken-word album, in which writers and musicians reinterpret the songs in English. Peter Gabriel voices an apocalyptic apology to the Earth, while Lou Bennett transforms Sri Hwi Hwi into an angry Indigenous Australian poem about slavery.
