Chwaer Fawr Brand New 'Diwedd' Album - Out Now via 'Klep Dim Trep'
'Utterly, utterly brilliant… the best thing I've heard this year.' – Adam Walton
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'Byw Yn Ol Y Son' Video: https://youtu.be/sRqyjZqUfTI
Chwaer Fawr is the solo project of 'Mari Morgan', known for her time with Rogue Jones, Bitw and Saron. Her debut album, oxymoronically titled Diwedd ('end'), is a quiet turning point marking both a conclusion and a beginning. Written and recorded slowly, at home and with friends, Diwedd grew organically and patiently. After years of playing in other people’s bands, this time it's her own quietly defiant voice that's front and centre.
Sung entirely in Welsh, Diwedd explores the tension between innocence and responsibility, between personal vulnerability and quiet resistance. It hints at the duality between the wonder of new motherhood and the anxiety of the modern world, threading in themes of peace, hope, and the urge to rise above it all. Birds and flight are recurring images throughout as symbols of freedom, fragility, and defiance. The album doesn’t seek resolution, but offers space to sit with discomfort, wonder and change.
Musically, Diwedd lives in a wonky, artful corner of alt-pop. It balances off-kilter textures with melodic clarity, gentle warmth and sharp detail. The record features contributions from a reliable circle of collaborators, including Llŷr Pari (Gwenno, Omaloma), Alex Morrison (Cate Le Bon, H. Hawkline), and Gwion Llewelyn (Aldous Harding, Villagers), with production from Gruff ab Arwel (Bitw, Y Niwl), who helps shape its tender strangeness.
Despite it's title, 'Diwedd' isn’t a full stop; rather, it’s the exhale after a long breath in. It marks the end of the slow, steady making of a debut, and the start of a more personal musical chapter. The album is both a personal journal and a quiet protest, not against one thing, but against forgetting what matters. It might not shout, but it stays with you. Sometimes, an ending is the most powerful way to begin.
Chwaer Fawr’s third and final single ahead of her debut album released via Klep Dim Trep.
'Byw yn ôl y Sôn' marks a shift in mood and texture, trading jagged guitars for gentle synths and keys, and leaning into a mellower, more spacious sound. Still unmistakably Chwaer Fawr, it’s upbeat in a quieter way: sparse, reflective, and unwaveringly propulsive. The song's final refrain about not looking back is reinforced by the drum machine's driving rhythm, locked in a quiet duel with the wistfulness of the melody. The artwork was once again created by artist Esyllt Angharad Lewis.
The track is largely Mari Morgan alone – her voice, her playing – with the familiar cast of collaborators (Gruff ab Arwel, Alex Morrison and Gwion Llewelyn) surfacing only briefly as a ghostly choir as the song gradually fades out, never ending but still going somewhere, forever moving forward in search of the spaces in between.
'Diwedd', Chwaer Fawr’s debut album, is out 27 June 2025 on limited edition vinyl and CD, as well as digitally on all major streaming platforms. Pre-order now from klepdimtrep.bandcamp.com
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