(Gonna sit here and cry thanks)
Super Furry Animals recorded a cover of Datblygu’s Y Teimlad way back when, on Mwng (2000). Their cover, even on the album, is a lot slower and super moving, and somehow one man and his guitar make it totally heart-wrenching, moving, gutting, and especially since David R Edwards’ death last year, it’s just… wow.
However! Dave had said it himself, it’s not a sad song! It’s a song about hope. The feeling of love, of hope. He really liked the Super Furries’ version too. His own? Post punk as heck, thanks in no small part to Pat Morgan’s instrumentation; as Dave lovingly called it, “John Peel music”.
Again, this clip was taken from the full broadcast, available for 30-ish days, of Stuart Maconie’s 3 April show on 6Music as part of the BBC 6Music festival.