Breichiau Hir Release Debut Album “Hir Oes I’r Cof”

Cardiff-based post-hardcore six-piece Breichiau Hir have released their debut album, Hir Oes I’r Cof, via Welsh language alternative label Libertino Records. Commenting on the meaning behind the album title, front man Steffan Dafydd says: “Hir Oes I’r Cof loosely translates to ‘long live memory’. The title was something I heard (or possibly misheard) from an elderly man giving a speech about where I grew up. The song is about the addictive nature of looking back, the comfort and escapism you get from nostalgia, juggled with the infinite sadness that you can never truly relive past memories, and the more you replay your memories the more they reshape and reform.”

A band who blend cathartic intensity, dense layers of guitar, and fragile melancholic moments, Breichiau Hir‘s sole mission is to move and connect to their audience. Bursting with melody, fragility and aggression, the sextet often jump from fierce energy to delicate passages to crashing waves of noise. Tackling the theme of a melancholy nostalgia with poignant lyrics, self-deprecating humour and surreal wordplay, every song on Hir Oes I’r Cof is performed proudly in the band’s native Welsh language.

“Halfway through writing the album, I noticed my lyrics were all following a narrative and theme around nostalgia. It’s a journey that follows the narrator getting totally engrossed in that feeling and losing grasp of reality. The theme of a river as a metaphor for time runs through the album”.

 Hir Oes I’r Cof is now available via Libertino Records.