I hate when the first time I ever hear of someone interesting is when their obituary is published. I loved the wave of Welsh bands from the 90s like Super Furry Animals, Catatonia and Gorki's Zygotic Mynci, as well as more recent ones like the Joy Formidable and Gwenno Saunders, but apparently the ground zero of Welsh alternative music was a band called Datblygu way back in the 80s. Never heard of them at all until today, when
The Quietus published the obit of band leader David Edwards.
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I guess it's nice to have an unfamiliar 80s alt band to go back and investigate, but sad that I never heard of them until the main man died.