Longtime Super Furry Animals album artist Pete Fowler collaborated with Keiichi Tanaami, the designer responsible for their 2007 album Hey Venus!, for the cover art for SFA's ninth album, Dark Days/Light Years, and it's a fitting gesture for an album that connects the focused, revitalized band of the late 2000s with the renegades of the late '90s. A cursory listen reveals Dark Days to be considerably wilder than Hey Venus!, whose primary charm was its streamlined efficiency, showcasing the band at its tight, melodic best. Elements of this remain -- it's hard to strip the Day-Glo pop out of SFA, and they do not deny themselves, or us, this candied pleasure -- but the opener, "Crazy Naked Ladies," makes it plain that this is a buoyant, electrified, psychedelic affair, as much about texture as it is about sound. In that sense, it has a kindred spirit in Guerrilla, the third album that found SFA getting elastically electronic instead of precisely pop, but if anything, the group's two sides are integrated seamlessly here with the band shifting gears almost imperceptibly, transitioning smoothly from fuzz-flaked guitars to pulsating electro beats. This liquid ease distinguishes Dark Days/Light Years as latter-day SFA, as does their continued reliance on showcasing each of their main singer/songwriters, giving this a bit of a democratic heft, but SFA avoid any of the respectable middlebrow bloat that taints the worthy Rings Around the World period. Dark Days is vibrant and alive, an ever-flowing, ever-shifting, carousel of sound -- some might miss the emphasis on song, but it's a ride that's hard to resist.
1 - Crazy Naked GirlsHmm.... meandering pseudo-psychedelic noodlings. Quite annoying. Where's the glittering pop melodies? Not here. Must be elsewhere. Not a great start to an album I've been looking forward to. Halfway in.... I'm bored now. Can we have a song please?Two-thirds in..... it sounds like fucking Queen. Getting really quite cross with it. 2 - Mt"It was a big fucking mountain" appar...
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Veteran Welsh psych-pop quintet continue to evolve, while revisiting the tripped-out, up-tempo sounds of their early days.
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Veteran Welsh psych-pop quintet continue to evolve, while revisiting the tripped-out, up-tempo sounds of their early days.
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Super Furry Animals need your help! They have a great new song out "Mt." from their latest Dark Days/Light Years but don't have a video. Get in on the act of creating your own unique video and Super Furry Animals will use it! Not a bad gig. In addition, you'll need to write 150 words on [...]
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1 - Crazy Naked GirlsHmm.... meandering pseudo-psychedelic noodlings. Quite annoying. Where's the glittering pop melodies? Not here. Must be elsewhere. Not a great start to an album I've been looking forward to. Halfway in.... I'm bored now. Can we have a song please?Two-thirds in..... it sounds like fucking Queen. Getting really quite cross with it. 2 - Mt"It was a big fucking mountain" appar...
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Super Furry Animals - Mt.This song hit on a personal note for me because I happen to live on a big f**king mountain! Plus, I find the general subject of large scale natural landforms - especially when scaling their large scale - to make for quite adventurous lyrical content. Let's hear it for Mother Earth! Moving forward, Super Furry Animals proudly released their ninth album Dark Days/Light Y...
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More an admirer than a fan of the Super Furries - James Dalrymple's prior favourite SFA album was Phantom Power. However, Dark Days/Light Years is a genuine revelation.
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I wish i could take credit for this.The Brobdingnagian Bards: “The Unicorn Song”Superfurry Animals “Hometown Unicorn”Unicorn Dream Attack – “Jamie”Related:No Related Post
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| 1 Crazy Naked Girls |
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| 2 Mt. |
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| 3 Moped Eyes |
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| 4 Inaugural Trams |
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| 5 Inconvenience |
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| 6 Cardiff in the Sun |
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| 7 The Very Best of Neil Diamond |
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| 8 Helium Hearts |
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| 9 White Socks/Flip Flops |
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| 10 Where Do You Wanna Go? |
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| 11 Lliwiau Llachar |
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| 12 Pric |
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