Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys

The new album from Gruff Rhys, Pang! is a Welsh Language pop album with a couple of verses of Zulu and an English title. Pang! developed unexpectedly over about 18 months. A solo album of songs by Gruff Rhys, produced and mixed by the South African electronic artist Mmusi, and is released by Rough Trade Records.

Recorded in Cardiff, Wales. It was mixed by the producer Muzi in Johannesburg, South Africa. Drums by Welsh-American psychedelic warlord Kliph Scurlock, brass by Gavin Fitzjohn and flute and percussion by the engineer Kris Jenkins. Beats, bass and ah’s by Muzi with Gruff on vocals and guitar.

Gruff explains “Pang! Is a Welsh language song with an English title. It started life as a folk reel and soon expanded into a ‘list’ song, listing various reasons for pangs; hunger, regret, twitter, pain, bad design etc. Using the English word pang in a Welsh language track may appear weird but I suppose it’s like using the French word ‘Magazine’ in an English song. In that it’s slightly pretentious but completely acceptable.”

Gruff Rhys

Pang!

Rough Trade
Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
LP

£22.99

Standard Version.

Green
Released 06/05/2022Catalogue Number

RT0086LP

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Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
LP +

£27.99

Deluxe Version - Deluxe Heavyweight Hand-Finished Sleeve with Poster.

Blue and White Splatter.

Released 13/09/2019Catalogue Number

RT0086LPE

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Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
CD

£11.99

Released 13/09/2019Catalogue Number

RT0086CD

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Gruff Rhys

Pang!

Rough Trade
Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
LP

£22.99

Standard Version.

Green
Released 06/05/2022Catalogue Number

RT0086LP

Learn more
Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
LP +

£27.99

Deluxe Version - Deluxe Heavyweight Hand-Finished Sleeve with Poster.

Blue and White Splatter.

Released 13/09/2019Catalogue Number

RT0086LPE

Learn more
Album artwork for Pang! by Gruff Rhys
CD

£11.99

Released 13/09/2019Catalogue Number

RT0086CD

Learn more

The new album from Gruff Rhys, Pang! is a Welsh Language pop album with a couple of verses of Zulu and an English title. Pang! developed unexpectedly over about 18 months. A solo album of songs by Gruff Rhys, produced and mixed by the South African electronic artist Mmusi, and is released by Rough Trade Records.

Recorded in Cardiff, Wales. It was mixed by the producer Muzi in Johannesburg, South Africa. Drums by Welsh-American psychedelic warlord Kliph Scurlock, brass by Gavin Fitzjohn and flute and percussion by the engineer Kris Jenkins. Beats, bass and ah’s by Muzi with Gruff on vocals and guitar.

Gruff explains “Pang! Is a Welsh language song with an English title. It started life as a folk reel and soon expanded into a ‘list’ song, listing various reasons for pangs; hunger, regret, twitter, pain, bad design etc. Using the English word pang in a Welsh language track may appear weird but I suppose it’s like using the French word ‘Magazine’ in an English song. In that it’s slightly pretentious but completely acceptable.”