Articles tagged "super furry animals"

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Super Furry Animals - “Inaugural Trams” (MP3)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. The new Super Furry Animals album Dark Days / Light Years releases digitally via Rough Trade on April 14th and in physical form on April 21st. Of course, as many of you know the Welsh popsters have...

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Super Furry Animals

by Kevin Pearson

[12.Feb.08] :. The last time the Super Furry Animals played Philadelphia, they rode on stage in a golf cart. So, understandably, there’s an odd sense of trepidation as the small crowd notices that the stage is bereft of props.

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Super Furry Animals: Hey Venus!

by Zeth Lundy

[5.Sep.07] :. Welsh band's eighth studio album is everything its predecessor was not: immediately likeable, swiftly paced, and mercilessly brief.

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Various Artists: Furry Selection

by Dave Hoffman

[15.Aug.07] :. Super Furry Animals bassist Guto Pryce takes a spin through the apparently bottomless Trojan back catalogue and produces a surprisingly cohesive mix of ‘70s rocksteady and dub reggae.

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Super Furry Animals: Love Kraft

by Zeth Lundy

[22.Sep.05] :. Depending on how you choose to perceive it, the band's orchestral seventh album is either one of its greatest achievements or one of its most pedestrian.

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Super Furry Animals: Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1

by Zeth Lundy

[2.Mar.05] :. Wales' favorite sons celebrate a decade of making Pure Pop for Now People with this collection of genre-defying singles.

Super Furry Animals: Phantom Phorce

by Zeth Lundy

[6.Jul.04] :. Fans of electronic music will find plenty of tracks on Phantom Phorce to rock their bodies (other artists on the album not mentioned previously include Four Tet, Boom Bip, Zan Lyons, and Massimo); however, those who know the original material will get the most satisfaction from the remixes.

Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power

by Adrien Begrand

[6.Aug.03] :. Phantom Power sounds more understated and warmer than its predecessor, but still retains both the ambitious and ridiculously catchy elements that we’ve come to love from this band.

Super Furry Animals

by Doug Wallen

[15.May.02] :. The last two times Super Furry Animals played Philadelphia, the band was confined to tiny 21+ venues, despite cult status and chart success overseas. This time around, though, the Welshmen arrived...

Super Furry Animals: Rings Around the World

by Adrien Begrand

[19.Mar.02] :. Rife with energy and overflowing with ideas, experiments, and glorious pop hooks, Super Furry Animals make a huge, bold statement with this album: they want to be a great band, not merely a good band, and with Rings Around the World, they just might have accomplished that feat.

Super Furry Animals, Radiator

by Sarah Zupko

As a charter member of the fertile Welsh rock scene that includes the Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Catatonia, it’s a bit surprising that Super Furry...