Track Listing
1. Crazy Naked Girls
2. Mt.
3. Moped Eyes
4. Inaugural Trams
5. Inconvenience
6. Cardiff In The Sun
7. Very Best Of Neil Diamond, The
8. Helium Hearts
9. White Socks/Flip Flops
10. Where Do You Wanna Go
11. Lliwiau Llachar
12. Pric
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | PIAS UK/Sony DADC |
Album Notes
Veteran Welsh psych-pop eccentrics Super Furry Animals have regularly pushed the margins of the post-alternative vanguard on eight studio albums that have confounded even the most fervent acolytes of musical experimentation. Willfully positioning themselves as outsiders with their Welsh-language lyrics and irreverent mash-up of styles, SFA's brand of schizoid neo-psychedelia enjoyed cult adoration but modest mainstream success. The group's ninth album, DARK DAYS/LIGHT YEARS, may fare better in the post-everything millennial pop reality. A departure from the lush, orchestral pop of their previous two albums, the album occupies a sonic universe located somewhere between lysergic yacht rock, glam rave-ups, and synth-fueled electronica. The Zep-like swagger of the opening track, "Crazy Naked Girls," sets the album's buoyant, electrified tone, with singer Gruff Rhys wailing away in a convincing Robert Plant-like manner over a wall of wah-guitar bombast. Elsewhere, "Moped Eyes" shows a bit more restraint, recalling smooth AOR/MOR harmonies without sounding overly kitschy or schmaltzy. Other tracks like the sweeping synth-fueled motorik of "Inaugural Trams" are practically an ode to the sleek Teutonic efficiency of bands like Neu and Kraftwerk.
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he album is a kaleidoscopic montage of stitched-together riffs and motorik propulsion, sometimes sprawling in execution but exhilarating in its reach and reckless abandon.
Alternative Press
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he album is a kaleidoscopic montage of stitched-together riffs and motorik propulsion, sometimes sprawling in execution but exhilarating in its reach and reckless abandon.Uncut - ...the charm here is in hearing a veteran band who still really enjoy the process of getting in a studio and playing music together. And it's great, stillPitchfork (Website) - Full of paradoxes and loving parodies, honeyed psych-pop harmonies and shaggy vamps....The results are as free-wheeling and inspired as the group has sounded in years...Record Collector (magazine) (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- The epic 'Cardiff In The Sun' is optimism writ large in a soaring paean to a beautiful city....It's the centerpiece to the closes SFA have come to producing a perfectly realised album.
Alternative Press
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