Name: Le Kov
Brand: Gwenno

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Bonus disc: No

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HVNLP145CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-03-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5414940003802

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Gwenno

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Heavenly

Superorganism, one of 2018’s most hotly tipped new bands release their highly anticipated self-titled debut album.

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/superorganism">Rough Trade Exclusive. 1000 copies on neon yellow colored vinyl. Gatefold sleeve, single vinyl, four-page booklet, download and bonus mixtape CD.</a>

This eight-piece sprawling, multi-limbed collection of international musicians and pop culture junkies have delivered 2018's POP album. Superorganism are DIY kids polishing up coal to present a neon diamond of über-chart-friendly sounds and lo-fi cartoon imagery. The album is a spectacularly confident debut that beams with a sense of wonky fun... a kaleidoscopic riot of sound and visuals.

Influenced by the world-building depth of artists like Devo, Beck and The Avalanches, Superoganism soundtracks the band’s rapid trajectory from shared house side project to global audiovisual powerhouse.

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Hear more about Superorganism's debut album plus our other nine selections as Emily and Nigel sat down to discuss the albums of the month in the latest podcast:

Albums of the Month - March 2018

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Gwenno is a British dancer and artist born on 23 May 1981 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She started her career as a Welsh-Cornish dancer before transitioning into a successful solo artist. One of her notable achievements includes singing in the Cornish language. Her third album, "Le Kov" (2022), was recently shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Mercury Prize.

Gwenno realeases Le Kov via Heavenly Recordings on March 2nd. Available here on Colored Vinyl.

Written entirely in Cornish, Le Kov is exploration of the subconscious, the myths and drolls of Cornwall, and the survival of Britain’s lesser known Brythonic language. As one of the language’s few fluent speakers, Gwenno felt a duty to create a document of a living language, explore her identity and the endless creative possibilities of a tongue that has a very small surviving artistic output. She dove deep into research, learning about attempts to protect and progress the language and the role of women throughout Cornish history. But Le Kov isn’t really a concept album—the city doesn’t loom that large through these 10 songs, and you don’t need the translation sheet to appreciate the gorgeous, sea-warped psychedelia that Gwenno has created alongside long-term collaborator and producer Rhys Edwards. Evoking the music of her childhood – Brenda Wootton, Alan Stivell, BUCCA – along with Broadcast, The United States of America, White Noise and Serge Gainsbourg, Le Kov is shimmering and tarnished, rust mingled with barnacles, moss entwined with weathered rope.

VIDEO PREMIERE: Le Kov, a landscape...

Rough Trade are delighted to premiere this very special short film from Gwenno, exploring her album 'Le Kov' out now on Heavenly Recordings and a former Rough Trade Albums of the Month for March 2018.

"Here's a contemporary visual document exploring what truth and myth is, what Le Kov is about - where we're at, and how we got here. A collaboration between Steve Glashier and I, exploring landscape and a sense of place. A postcard of the now that may one day be forgotten, so let's enjoy the moment before it disappears." Gwenno

LP+ - Colored Vinyl. Includes Download Code.