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Thallo unveils the fantastic ‘Pluo’ visual out now via Cosh Records 

On the new single, Thallo showcases her unique sound, one that is enveloping, otherworldly, and multi-instrumented, spanning bedroom and dream-pop with subtle, textured jazz infusions and contemporary classic touches, both ethereal and utterly enthralling. Pluo translates as ‘feathering’ in English, meaning ‘lightly snowing’ which relates to the song’s poignant opening line “I gather dust which is feathering stillness.” Inspired by the effects of a sudden illness that Thallo suffered in 2020 which caused chronic knee pain and debilitating mobility issues, Pluo touches on the peculiar pain of watching the world return to normal following lockdown, whilst Thallo was trapped in what she describes as “My own personal lockdown.” As she expands, “I felt so stuck, unable to return to my normal life. But most of all, the song is a cry of fear for the loneliness and hopelessness of being left behind whilst everyone else moves forward.” Pluo’s accompanying video, a collaboration with Welsh channel Lŵp (S4C), takes inspiration from psychological horror and is filmed at the popular ghost-hunting spot Bron y Garth Hospital, a former 1800s workhouse/hospital now abandoned and frozen in-time, as Thallo explains “The setting perfectly mirrors Pluo’s lyrics of feeling stuck and deteriorating.” It sees Thallo wake to find herself in a blood-filled bath on the decaying hospital floor, what ensues is a struggle to escape the derelict building peppered with eerie imagery and horrifying flashbacks that lead to the chilling conclusion - that Thallo is in fact dead and trapped in purgatory. Thallo is the work of Gwynedd, North Wales/London based artist Elin Edwards, over the course of her debut Nhw EP  (2018) and a series of highly received singles, notably 2021’s  Mêl, Pressed and Preserved, The Water, and more recently Carry Me (2022) from the forthcoming Crescent EP,  she has garnered radio support from  Sian Eleri (Radio 1) and Huw Stephens (BBC 6 Music, Radio Wales), with Thallo also recording a session at Maida Vale, and received  glowing press coverage in Wonderland, Noctis, God Is In The TV Zine, When The Horn Blows and many other blogs both UK and Stateside. Thallo has performed at The Great Escape and is booked to play 2023’s SXSW.

Ar ei sengl newydd Pluo, mae Thallo yn arddangos ei sain unigryw, un sy’n cydio, yn arallfydol, ac yn aml-offerynnol, yn gyfuniad o 'bedroom pop' a 'dream pop' gyda cyffyrddiadau o jazz cynnil ac elfennau clasurol cyfoes, sy’n creu naws synfyfyriol tra hefyd yn hollol swynol. “Casglu llwch sy'n pluo llonyddwch.” Wedi’i ysbrydoli gan effeithiau salwch sydyn a ddioddefodd Thallo yn 2020 a achosodd boen cronig yn ei phen-gliniau a phroblemau symudedd, mae Pluo yn cyffwrdd â’r boen ryfedd o wylio’r byd yn dychwelyd i normal ar ôl y clo, tra bod Thallo yn gaeth yn yr hyn y mae’n ei ddisgrifio fel “fy nghlo personol fy hun.” Dwedai Thallo “Roeddwn i'n teimlo mor sownd, yn methu â dychwelyd i fy mywyd normal. Ond yn bennaf oll, gwaedd o ofn yw’r gân am yr unigrwydd a’r anobaith o gael eich gadael ar ôl tra bod pawb arall yn symud ymlaen.” 

Mae’r fideo yn cael ei hysbrydoli gan y genre ffilm arswyd seicolegol ac wedi ei saethu yn y man hela ysbrydion poblogaidd Ysbyty Bron y Garth, cyn wyrcws/ysbyty o’r 1800au sydd bellach wedi’i adael yn wag ac wedi rhewi mewn amser. Eglurai Thallo “Mae’r lleoliad yn adlewyrchu geiriau ‘Pluo’ o deimlo’n sownd ac yn dirywio.” Mae’r fideo’n gweld Thallo’n ffeindio’i hun yn deffro mewn bath llawn gwaed ar lawr yr ysbyty, yr hyn sy’n dilyn yw brwydr i ddianc o’r adeilad adfeiliedig, yn frith o ddelweddau iasol ac ôl-fflachiadau arswydus sy’n arwain at y syweddoliad at ddiwedd y fideo – bod Thallo mewn gwirionedd wedi marw ac yn gaeth mewn purdan. Cynhyrchu a Chyfarwyddo - Aled Wyn Jones Cyfarwyddo, DOP a Golygu - Andy Pritchard Celf - Jamie Walker Gyda diolch i Andy Smallbone a Virginia Chuck - Ysbyty Bron Y Garth Geiriau/Lyrics: Casglu llwch sy’n pluo llonyddwch Fel diwrnod diddiwedd Fel diwrnod diddiwedd yn dal i ddod Arhosa fan hyn Dwi methu symud o’r unfan di-ddim Dwi methu symud o’r unfan Mor rhyfedd gwylio dy hun yn dirywio Fel diwrnod diddiwedd Fel diwrnod diddiwedd yn dal i ddod Arhosa fan hyn Dwi methu symud o’r unfan di-ddim Arhosa fan hyn Dwi methu symud o’r unfan di-ddim Arhosa fan hyn Dwi methu symud o’r unfan di-ddim (Casglu llwch sy’n pluo llonyddwch fel diwrnod diddiwedd, fel diwrnod diddiwedd yn dal i ddod) 

 Pluo lyrics (English translation): 

 I gather dust which is feathering stillness like an endless day, like an endless day that keeps coming Stay here I can’t move from this useless spot I can’t move from this spot So strange watching yourself deteriorate like an endless day, like an endless day that keeps coming Stay here I can’t move from this useless spot Stay here I can’t move from this useless spot I can’t move from this spot Stay here I can’t move from this useless spot I can’t move from this spot (I gather dust which is feathering stillness like an endless day, like an endless day that keeps coming) 

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