Yn Fyw Yn Wharf Chambers 12fed Gorffenaf 2022
A companion piece to Tristwch y Fenywod’s self-titled, AOTY-contending debut album, this early recording, made at Wharf Chambers, Leeds, in 2022, presents a stunning schematic for one of 2024’s definitive releases; now on its 4th pressing in nearly as many months, and riddled with hooks that have jangled the nerves and imagination quite unlike anything else in 2024.
It’s been hard to miss the wholly justified clamour of attention around Tristwch y Fenywod’s eponymous album for Glasgow label, Night School. The Welsh-tongue, occult, avant goth-folk trio comprising Gwretsien Fetch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn), and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys) have sent shivers down the spine with a remarkable, queered repositioning of folk ballads and dreampop liturgies in gothic forms that speak to both their heavy lysergic feminist energies and deep roots in Leeds’ avant basement rhizome and beyond.
Captured a few years before the studio version, and first hipped to us by a Neil Campbell post on X the week after the show in 2022, the live document has become a go-to set that never fails to invoke its arcane might with each turn. The recordings hail the combination of Gwretsien’s plangent prayer vox and piquant zither with Leila’s martial 7/8 ceremonial drum strikes and Sidni’s gut-strumming basslines as acutely comparable to 4AD classics from This Mortal Coil to Dead Can Dance, thru to Michael O’Shea or The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, and surely shadowed by Leeds goth elders The Sisters of Mercy. Yet Tristwch masterfully transcend those gravestones to conjure a certain, chthonic sound can safely call their own.
Thee highest possible recommendation!
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A companion piece to Tristwch y Fenywod’s self-titled, AOTY-contending debut album, this early recording, made at Wharf Chambers, Leeds, in 2022, presents a stunning schematic for one of 2024’s definitive releases; now on its 4th pressing in nearly as many months, and riddled with hooks that have jangled the nerves and imagination quite unlike anything else in 2024.
It’s been hard to miss the wholly justified clamour of attention around Tristwch y Fenywod’s eponymous album for Glasgow label, Night School. The Welsh-tongue, occult, avant goth-folk trio comprising Gwretsien Fetch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn), and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys) have sent shivers down the spine with a remarkable, queered repositioning of folk ballads and dreampop liturgies in gothic forms that speak to both their heavy lysergic feminist energies and deep roots in Leeds’ avant basement rhizome and beyond.
Captured a few years before the studio version, and first hipped to us by a Neil Campbell post on X the week after the show in 2022, the live document has become a go-to set that never fails to invoke its arcane might with each turn. The recordings hail the combination of Gwretsien’s plangent prayer vox and piquant zither with Leila’s martial 7/8 ceremonial drum strikes and Sidni’s gut-strumming basslines as acutely comparable to 4AD classics from This Mortal Coil to Dead Can Dance, thru to Michael O’Shea or The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, and surely shadowed by Leeds goth elders The Sisters of Mercy. Yet Tristwch masterfully transcend those gravestones to conjure a certain, chthonic sound can safely call their own.
Thee highest possible recommendation!