NEWS: Meilyr Jones' '2013' wins Welsh Music Prize 2016

NEWS: Meilyr Jones’ ‘2013’ wins Welsh Music Prize 2016

Meilyr Jones’ 2013 is this year’s winner of the Welsh Music Prize.  Jones’ debut solo album beat competition from the likes of Cate Le Bon, The Anchoress, Skindred, Swnami and Simon Love to win the prestigious prize.

In our own review of 2013 from earlier in the year we commented that: “It is not just the willingness of Jones to look beyond – WAY beyond – rock ‘n’ roll history to create his first masterpiece (it is, after all, tinged with both the classical and the baroque as much as it is theatrical pop); it is also the endearingly mischievous prose that infiltrates each composition.”

Jones’ debut record now joins others such as Gwenno’s Y Dydd Olaf, Joanna Gruesome’s Weird Sister and Georgia Ruth’s Week of Pines as winners of the prestigious prize.

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