Angharad

I Don’t Like That We’re Estranged

Angharad has been awarded Youth Music’s NextGen award to produce three singles on the theme of friendship breakups.

“I Got Better” is out now.

This project is backed by Youth Music, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery, TikTok and Turtle Bay.

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Angharad is a non-binary Literary Art Pop performer. They pride themself on complex lyrics, strong hooks and a visionary attitude to high concept work.

Life mottos: ‘Everything Is Complicated’, ‘No heroes, no gods, no princes’ ‘The only stories worth telling are the ones you haven’t heard’.

Influences include BirdEatsBaby, Patrick Wolf, Cosmo Jarvis, and KT Tunstall.

Perviously seen performing at Byline Festival and Cambridge Pride.

Angharad was born in and went to primary school in Croydon and grew up & went to comp in Swansea.

A Sketchbook of LitPop

Everything is complex, everything is political, everything is personal, everything is philosophical: a sketchbook for a pop set / a homemade portfolio:

A pop song for the heatwave _______ Buy on bandcamp: https://angharad.bandcamp.com/track/sunkissed _______ The roads are roasting And the parks are all full ...

The spring was there for new love
And the winter's there for old
No-one's allowed to touch me
'til I start to get too cold

Song: Sunkissed (available on youtube and bandcamp)

Based on: heatwaves, topless sunbathing, my sister calling ‘tits to the wind!’

A break up song for when nothing went wrong, you still kind of love each other, but it's over and you're devastated. Capo on 4 Lyrics & Chords: C / Am / F / ...

And I leave behind what I can’t bear to lose,

things I couldn’t keep in the life I choose

after we move out

Song: After We Move Out (a soft hearted amicable break up anthem)

(available on youtube)

Buy 'Tess' here: https://angharad.bandcamp.com/track/tess ------- 'Tess' was written in response to a John Sutherland essay on 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' ("...

But I had no idea, that in a few years, what you did would be legal, and honoured, and you would be legal and honoured and truly, Still the man you are

Song: TESS (available on youtube and bandcamp)

Based on: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (1891)

"A Curse on Your Words" is a response to the academics who signed the October letter to the Guardian claiming they are being 'harassed' over their discussion...

May the things that you’ve said come back to bite,

May the people you’ve failed come back
to fight

Song: A Curse on Your Words (available on youtube)

A protest song for trans rights / all living on the fringes

Covers

I made a music video using only 2+ year old footage and free software, and a track made out of other people's words and tunes. Lyrics: It's wonderful what a ...

Chicago, Sufjan Stevens

Overture, Patrick Wolf

- a medley, arranged by Angharad

Lyrics: Don't let us get sick Don't let us get old Don't let us get stupid, all right? Just make us be brave And make us play nice And let us be together ton...

Don’t Let Us Get Sick, Warren Zevon

Collaborations

We wrote a pop song about Twilight! (kind of). Lyrics in description. Available on ThePollutedShades.bandcamp.com Lyrics: I woke up, still tired Something's ...

You said, ‘I love you’

I said, ‘That can’t be right’

Available on bandcamp here: https://thepollutedshades.bandcamp.com/releases Initially written for the podcast "When Will Merthur Kiss?" Alfie - @alfiecoates ...

I know - I think I know - what’s right

There’s more than one side to this fight

There’s more than one way to start a fire

The Polluted Shades is the collaboration of Angharad and Alfie, they and their songs can be found on their Bandcamp.