Cyn Cwsg — “before sleep” — offer a tad more bite than their name might suggest. Their harmony-soaked rock, oddball country, and hallucinatory pop has drawn comparisons to Iwan Llwyd and the Beach Boys: music armed with lush indie guitar sounds, Britpop-adjacent riffs, and a touch of Elliott Smith if he’d been raised in north Wales. The quartet released their debut EP Pydru yn yr Haul last year: songs in Welsh and English that telegraph gritty vulnerability and bite straight to the bone.
Country: Wales