Music of the Day: Slate - St Agatha

In Wales, there are lines of poetry that are passed down like an heirloom: “To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth but with music in your blood, and poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.” Stanzas and prose run deep within the valleys as naturally as its rivers, as imperatively as the blood in its people’s veins. Emerging from the depths of Cardiff’s burgeoning music scene, heirs to their country’s lineage of storytellers, are Slate. The four-piece band are barely touching their twenties, but together, they have a command of post-punk which rings with the gravitas of a death-knell; a grasp of atmosphere and melody which touches on the ethereal.