SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

I think "Sunny Seville" is more cringeworthy than anything on the album, lyrically. "Sucking on dictaphone"?

"Summer Snow," "Edam Anchorman" and "Patience" are so good

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I'll take that over "take the turbulence and twinkle your toes", which makes me wince. At least 'Sunny Seville' has a decent tune and the lyric is funny, rather than embarrassing.

'Patience' is great and slipped through the cracks for years. Glad that it's been rescued from obscurity somewhat.

https://i.imgur.com/eqaXssh.png

I don't even know anymore.

Maybe the aliens in hometown unicorn took them and replaced them with clones who exist only to milk the commercial cash cow.

I've convinced myself they're trying to fund a new album, but the truth is they're probably just old & tired and wish they'd signed that deal with Coca Cola.

I wish they'd signed that deal with Coca-Cola.

I've convinced myself they're trying to fund a new album, but the truth is they're probably just old & tired and wish they'd signed that deal with Coca Cola.

Hey they're younger than me and I'm not old.

So there's a pretty big group on Facebook that some members of the band are a part of, and Daf addressed the negative track on Out Spaced. Apparently it's the backing track to one of the original SFA songs he did with Rhys Ifans. For some reason the store was it was some noodling Bunf did. Anyway, I thought that was pretty cool. Apparently he didn't even know it was on the album and hadn't heard it in decades.

He says he composed it himself. Not that it's an impressive composition or anything. Just a little more interesting trivia in this time of want.

Well, that's that cleared up! Yeah, the story for years was that it was a Bunf demo from 1992.

They generally have shit memories when it comes to their own stuff.

So the remaster came out today. I think it generally does sound a little better, maybe a little less murky. The bass is still barely present, but I don't think that's a problem a remaster can fix.

"Naff Gan" is the "Ice Hockey Hair" demo. The lyrics are the same as that live "Welcome to the Family" performance. It went from being a pretty charmless, grungey slice of nonsense to a classic, so it's an interesting historical piece. "Music Box" is just Gruff mumbling over some music.

I'm not much interested in hearing it - not unless there's stuff on there that's "proper" songs that I haven't heard before.

"Smoke" is an alternate mix of "Smokin'." I swear I heard this years ago on a compilation of some sort. But yeah, there's nothing AMAZING AND UNRELEASED on here. I think their vault is spent unless you want to go searching for some crumbs.

The new El Goodo album Strangetown just released is great. Good follow-up to their last one, which is also great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq27wwtEkvg

Liked that, will check out the album

https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/gulp-return-with-glittering-track-morning-velvet-sky

New Gulp song/album produced by Luke Abbott. Prob. best SFA spin-off in my opinion.

Cian's orchestral album is out now if you've preordered. It's pretty breathtaking stuff!

Here's a short video snippet:

Fersiwn glasurol @CianCiarán o chwedl Rhys a Meinir
A classical composition of the love story Rhys a Meinir by @CianCiarán#rhysameinir | Nos Iau | Thursday | 9.30#chwedlau #chwedloni@superfurry pic.twitter.com/MDhCWnB8fA

— S4C (@S4C) November 26, 2017

https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/cian-ciaran-rhys-and-meinir

http://www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2017/11/a-brief-review-of-rhys-meinir-from-cian.html

The album is, frankly, a revelation. A listener shouldn't be surprised that Cian Ciaran is a man of prodigious talent but, rather, that he is so easily capable of branching out so effectively. Rhys A Meinir is a record that alternates between lush orchestral passages, and stark, soundtrack-like pieces of music that convey the sadness and lyricism of the Welsh tale to a listener. In my interview with Cian Ciaran, he mentioned an appreciation for the music of John Barry, Bizet, and Ennio Morricone, an appreciation that one can hear here in the selections on Rhys A Meinir. A track like "Haul o rywle'n tywynnu" early in the record even bears a faint trace of Randy Newman's soundtrack work about it, while the lighter-than-air "Safodd yn stond" offers a rich abundance of harp figures. The more direct "Marwydos" brings a kind of folk music to the classical work, while the absolutely stunning "Rhedeg" chills and moves the soul in the style and spirit of the best Bernard Herrmann film scores. It's not entirely a surprise that this is an affecting work, but that it's so atypical of what one would expect from a Super Furry Animal. The band used strings before but never quite like this, Ciaran here embracing the larger forms and offering up something both Modern and Romantic.

Playing "Zoom", the 2cd best-of in the car at the moment.

It's so good!

They were/are so good. I fear they'll never be back. They're still hawking merch, though. There's always hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbS4ekCNmY

There's a good shot of a Hey Venus! preliminary studio track list in the documentary. "Upside Downers" from Cian's first solo album appears on it. The orchestra's motif took form during these sessions as well; he plays it during the studio session recordings and calls it "Lick My Love Pump" *lol*.

I enjoyed the doc. Good watch. V. relaxing, too.

http://beta.s4c.cymru/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=794828413

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6VLjIKwqQ

Ah! Greetings my friends,

- I’m happy to announce that my new album of 10 songs ‘Babelsberg’ is coming out on Rough Trade Records on 8th June. It features the BBC NOW orchestra with Kliph Scurlock, Osian Gwynedd and Steve Black on drums, piano, bass and I’m singing and playing guitar.

i did add my name to do a Super Furry Animals artist poll on ILM. not sure if i will actually do it. i ask, is there enough interest on ILM do actually do a poll?

I'd vote

I'd vote too

me2

Also me.

yes.

might be quite nice to have another thread on them which isn't THEY"RE SHIT REUNION BAND NOW every post

As true as that may be in 2018.

They are the rare band where I know more than half their albums, so I'd vote in a poll too

Dark Days/Light Years is a great album. Hope it gets some love in a poll. Bing Bong wasn't half bad, either. ;-)

I can think of a couple of tracks from Dark Days/Light Years that are worth voting for, as patchy and backloaded as that album is. 'Bing Bong' was so bad that it pretty much was the final nail for me.

The top 2 tracks are pretty much a lock, but there's such an embarrassment of riches from their golden decade of 1994-2004 it should be interesting.

Still throw on 'Bing Bong' once in a while. My son loves it. Hot bassline, too. *`<:^)

Not bad for a track they probably threw together in an hour or two.

Inaugural Trams is my European holiday anthem :)

'White Socks/Flip Flops' is one of the best things they've done post-2004.

Just take out Mt. and Moped Eyes and Dark Days/Light Years ends up being one of their best albums

'Mt' might be their worst song, otoh, it is an odd album

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and yeah, agreed, it dips early

but recovers splendidly!

I love 'Moped Eyes.' I can leave 'Mt.' behind, but I think they've done far worse--all of which can be found on Love Kraft.

*hey venus

I'd take out 'Where Do You Wanna Go?' and 'Lliwiau Llachar' too. SFA on autopilot.

I guess 'Inconvenience' fits that category as well - I'd forgotten about it until I looked at the tracklisting.

I like Inconvenience and Lliwiau LLachar. 'Where Do You Wanna Go?' admittedly goes nowhere but it's short so I don't really mind it much