'Dancing On Volcanoes' is the brand new single from Gwenno's new album 'Utopia.' 'Utopia' is released on July 11th, 2025. Listen to 'Dancing on Volcanoes' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-dancingonvolcanoes Pre-order 'Utopia' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-utopia Sign-up to Gwenno's mailing list - https://www.gwenno.info/subscribe Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, 'Utopia' is Gwenno Saunders’ first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting. Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos. 'Utopia', Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records — 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018’s Le Kov and 2022’s Tresor as “childhood records”, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of self-determination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone’s daughter and becoming someone’s wife and someone’s mother. They range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date. Song credits - Publisher: Blue Raincoat Composer: Gwenno Saunders & Rhys Edwards Lyricist: Gwenno Saunders Producer: Rhys Edwards Mixer: Llŷr Pari Gwenno Saunders - Vocals Rhys Edwards - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Shakers, Tambourine, Mellotron, Synthesizers Tad Davies - Bass Llŷr Pari - Drums Randy Michael - Backing Vocals Video credits: Cinematography - Clare Marie Bailey Editor - Gwenno --- Lyrics - You’ll ask me for a cigarette But we don’t go out anymore Who becomes your Mother? And who becomes your Father? The dictators are dictating We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes Has it changed beyond measure? Have all the foundations gone? Have we found a new clever? Are we all here because of trauma? Did we all lose something somewhere? Do you remember when you were nine or ten When everything shattered? You’ll ask me for a cigarette But we don’t go out anymore Who becomes your Mother? And who becomes your Father? The dictators are dictating We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes And I was never any good at being young You lose and you win some She came in from the West Whatever that means The grit of time got stuck Between my teeth You’ll ask me for a cigarette But we don’t go out anymore Who becomes your Mother? And who becomes your Father? The dictators are dictating We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes Are we all here because of trauma? Did we all lose something somewhere? Do you remember when you were nine or ten When everything shattered? You’ll ask me for a cigarette But we don’t go out anymore Who becomes your Mother? And who becomes your Father? You’ll ask me for a cigarette But we don’t go out anymore Who becomes your Mother? And who becomes your Father? The dictators are dictating We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes