Artist: Super Furry Animals
Genre(s):
Rock
Indie
Alternative
Pop: Pop-Rock
ROck: Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Hey Venus
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Love Kraft
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Songbook: The Singles, Volume One
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
Phantom Power
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Rings Around the World
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Mwng (CD 2)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 5
Mwng (CD 1)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Guerrilla
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Radiator
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Super Furry Animals were one of the number one post-alternative bands, fusing together a numeral of disparate musical genres -- including power pop, punk rock rock, techno, and progressive rock -- creating a shimmering, melodious, saucy, and wilfully artsy rock candy & roll. As one of the leading bands of the mid-'90s Welsh movement, they were already tagged as outsiders by their inclination to sing entire songs in their native tongue, simply their selfsame approach was unique, wide of both whimsey and left wing political activism. What go under them apart from their buster Welsh bands were their infectious melodic sensibilities and their wildly pert attitude, which peers like Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, 60 Ft. Dolls, and Catatonia lacked. Super Furry Animals' 1996 debut album, Fuzzed Logic, became a major English hit, charting in the Top 40 and placing in the Top Ten of many year-end critics' polls.
Formed in Cardiff, Wales, in 1993, Super Furry Animals were comprised of Gruff Rhys (booster cable vocals, guitar), Huw "Bunf" Bunford (guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (basso), Cian Ciárán (keyboards, electronics), and Dafydd Ieuan (drums). All five members had played in bands throughout their teens prior to forming the group, most notably Rhys, wHO had previously played in a jingle pop up band named Emily that was briefly signed to Creation, as well as a Welsh noise rock band called Ffa Coffi Pawb. Following the breakup of Ffa Coffi Pawb, Rhys played in a triad with Pryce and Ieuan, which eventually evolved into Super Furry Animals. Initially, the mathematical group was a techno outfit, so far they quickly evolved into a neo-psychedelic and progressive pop outfit. After two age or writing and touring, the band sign-language with the Cardiff-based sovereign label Ankst and released their debut EP, Lianfairpwllgywgyllgoger Chwymdrobwlltysiliogoygoyocynygofod (In Space), which was song dynasty solely in Welsh. It was followed within a few months by another EP, Moog Droog, which was too song in Welsh. Both EPs were produced by Gorwel Owen.
By the end of 1995, Super Furry Animals had gained a strong, cross-generational fan base in Wales patch assemblage a strong cult following in Britain, which lED to a six-album record get with Creation Records. Prior to signing with Creation, the band had distinct to whistle the majority of their songs in English, in ordering to hit a wider hearing. Super Furry Animals and Owen produced the group's debut album, which was preceded by two singles in the leaping of 1996 -- "Hometown Unicorn" and "Immortal! Show Me Magic" -- which became temper hits. Fuzzy Logic, the band's debut album, was released in the U.K. in June 1996 to uniformly fantabulous reviews. Within a few months, SFA had turn one of the hippest bands in British sovereign music, with several of the group's lyrical touchstones -- well-nigh notably the ill-famed Welsh pinhead contrabandist Howard Marks, wHO appeared on the cover of Fuzzed Logic -- having turn pop culture references. Super Furry Animals besides became notorious during the summer of 1996 for attending all of the pop music festivals in a mammoth storage tank.
"Something 4 the Weekend" and "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" became strike singles in the summer and fall of 1996. The latter exclusive was scheduled to have a B-side called "The Man Don't Give a Fuck," which was built on a sample of Steely Dan's "Showbiz Kids," merely Donald Fagen refused to give the mathematical group permission to use the recording. By November, he relented and "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" was released as a limited edition exclusive in early December, and it reached number 22 on the U.K. charts. Super Furry Animals entered the studios in January 1997 to record their arcsecond album, Radiator, which was released in August 1997. Guerrilla followed two age later, and in mid-2000 the circle resurfaced with Mwng. Cameos by John Cale and Paul McCartney were featured on the challenging 2001 album Rings Around the World, while 2003's Shadow Power was a looser matter. The compilation Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 and the new album Sexual love Kraft were both released in 2005. The group sign with the Rough Trade tag in 2006 and released the habit-forming pop record album Hey Venus! in 2007.
