Back in 2023, Cardiff’s Gareth Bonello, stage name The Gentle Good, released Galargan, an eight-song set spanning under forty minutes and consisting of guitar, vocals and some sweeps of cello. A beautifully modest album, Galargan saw Gareth eschew collaborations that had been present on previous albums (Lisa Jen and Cate le Bon, among many others) and bring his singing and guitar playing to the fore.
Fast forward to this year’s Elan, and we see a change from Gareth, with a wonderfully rich, multi-textured album of thirteen songs hitting almost double the run time of Galargan.
Elan is a concept album of sorts, a study of the Elan Valley in Powys through music, recorded off-grid in the Cambrian mountains.
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