Y Dail- Debut Album

Welsh Songwriter Y DAIL Announces Debut Album Teigr Released 5th April 2024 Stream Album Track ‘The Piper Pulled Down The Sky’ Out Now Listen HERE 

Bi-lingual Welsh songwriter Y DAIL (aka Huw Griffiths) is delighted to announce that his debut album Teigr will be released on 5th April 2024, describing the record as “a collection of songs written in my bedroom between the ages of 16 and 19, high on lapsang souchong tea and jaffa cakes.”

To celebrate the news, Griffiths has chosen to share album track ‘The Piper Pulled Down The Sky’ as a first taste of the record, showcasing his enthralling, romantic melodic pop song writing that feels imbued with that very particular Welsh ‘hiraeth’—a mixture of longing, yearning, nostalgia, and wistfulness.

Commenting on the track, Griffiths says: “It’s a glam pop song inspired by lines from William Burroughs’ sci-fi Western novel The Place of Dead Roads, topped and tailed with Wings-y Moog synth.”

Y Dail (‘The Leaves’) is the musical project of 20-year-old Huw Griffiths from Pontypridd, south Wales. Starting in 2020, the band have released a string of singles which have received excellent reviews and single-of-the-week awards on music blogs and websites. His forthcoming debut album Teigr has been several years in the making and is partly inspired by Griffiths’s love of 70s Welsh-language pop he remembers from school discos and his parents’ record collection. He also cites Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Joe Meek, Television, and early Prefab Sprout as influences. 

With the album’s completion and release delayed by the inevitable pandemic story, 2021 saw the deceptively young Griffiths juggling finalising the record with studying for his A Levels, eventually putting the finishing touches to the record with producer Kris Jenkins (ex Super Furry Animals) at Grangetown Studios, Cardiff.

Previously performing live as a duo with his multi-instrumentalist younger sister Elen and now with his live band filled out into a quartet, Griffiths’ disarmingly mature, charming, and precise lo-fi pop wins fans wherever he goes, previously supporting Cardiff natives Papur Wal and appearing at the Swansea Fringe.

This year, Y Dail will be playing at FA Wales Festival and Wales Goes Pop Festival, plus support slots alongside Blue Amber and Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine, with further new music and live dates revealed over the coming months. 

Debut album Teigr is released 5th April 2024 

Live Dates: 

Mar 1st - Cardiff - Tiny Rebel (w/ Blue Amber)
Mar 2nd - Carmarthen - FA Wales Festival, Cwrw
Mar 29th/30th - Cardiff - Wales Goes Pop Festival
Apr 6th - Bristol - No. 1 Harbourside (w/ Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine)