MELIN MELYN

Since emerging from the sun kissed valleys of Wales in 2019, Melin Melyn have constantly confounded listeners with their unique blend of psychedelic surf-rock, folk and pop that set them apart from almost all other modern contemporaries and have drawn deserved comparisons to Super Furry Animals and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. And their weird tales of colourful characters and magical worlds told in both English and Welsh aren’t in fact that far removed from today’s off-kilter reality.

It’s sonic eccentricity at its finest & paradoxically most accessible; none-more evident than on their latest single ‘I Paint Dogs’, 2 minutes 20 of Melin Melyn bottled and distilled down to their purest essence – irresistible pop-rock melodies combine with Gruff Glyn’s distinctive brand of lyricism. Speaking on the track Glyn adds “I was inspired to write this song after chatting  to an artist at his exhibition in a place called London. He had stickers on all of his portraits. Waw, I said, that’s amazing, you’ve sold all of your paintings! Surely that means that you actually make a living off of your art! That’s amazing! Don’t be ridiculous, he said, the only way I make any actual money is by going to posh people’s houses and painting their dogs. So this song is dedicated to all artists that have to work rubbish second jobs to fund their careers. Keep doing what you’re doing everyone, the world would be rubbish without it.”

They perform at Birkenhead Town Hall on Sunday 25th August.