Moletrap honour a lost voice with 'Middle of the Land'

Moletrap have shared their moving new single 'Middle of the Land', a track that serves as both a celebration and a quiet lament. Written over a four-year period, the song’s chorus was the final piece to fall into place, inspired by a local story from Radnorshire, Wales, about a now-extinct Welsh dialect.

According to local legend, the last known speaker of Radnorshire Welsh was a widowed man living alone on the edge of Cwm Elan and the Elenydd Uplands. Moletrap requested his final recorded interview from the national archives, hoping to hear the lost lilt of their homeland, a recording that has yet to arrive, and may never come.

“It’s bittersweet when a dialect dies,” the band reflect. “The loss reminds us of the fragility of identity and inspires us to double down on what remains.”