Album Review : Huw Marc Bennett – ‘Heol Las’: re-imagining bygone songs through a unique folktronica gaze.
Over the last few years producer and multi-instrumentalist Huw Marc Bennett’s solo releases has traced his deepening fascination in the music of his home-land, Wales. In 2020 the ‘Tresilian Bay’ album, named after a Glamorgan coastal spot, may have been a giddy blend of Baile funk, nu jazz fusion and afrobeats but there was a twinge of Gorky’s indie-psych burbling beneath. Three years later ‘Days Like Now’ did more than suggest, it absorbed Bennett’s memories of Welsh traditional song and tradition. Grooviness was retained but something more folktronic was emerging.
