Welsh rockers released recently their ninth studio album “Keep The Village Alive”. As the first single from the album, which includes 10 songs, and 16 in a deluxe edition, released “C’est la Vie”, and on a concert at the Royal Albert Hall (in March) presented two new songs, “I Want To Get Lost With You” and “Song For The Summer “. Name of the album is an allusion to a little Welsh mining town where they started off, a guitarist, singer and producer Kelly Jones, explains it with ‘head up, get up, work hard, there will be better days’, since many smaller towns around the world are faced with the lack of jobs, social facilities, …
When they won in the 1998 at the Brit Awards best new group award, they joined the selected group of bands with five consecutive albums at number 1 of the British charts. Other bands are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Abba, Genesis, Oasis, Blur and U2.
“… and this well-crafted ninth album plays to their traditional strengths.“ – Daily Mail