Artist: Super Fury Animals: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop Super Fury Animals's discography: Guerrilla Year: 1999 Tracks: 14 Super Furry Animals were ane of the first-class mail honours degree post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres -- including power crop up, punk rock, techno, and progressive stone -- creating a shimmering, melodious, smart, and willfully artsy sway & seethe. As one of the leading bands of the mid-'90s Welsh motion, they were already labeled as outsiders by their course to sing intact songs in their native natural language, just their selfsame approaching was unique, good of both notion and left wing political activism. What define them aside from their associate Welsh bands were their infectious melodic sensibilities and their wildly irreverent mental attitude, which peers like Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, 60 Ft. Dolls, and Catatonia lacked. Super Furry Animals' 1996 debut album, Fuzzy 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 (lead vocals, guitar), Huw "Bunf" Bunford (guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass part), 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 jangle pop band named Emily that was in short signed to Creation, as well as a Welsh noise rock band called Ffa Coffi Pawb. Following the looseness of Ffa Coffi Pawb, Rhys played in a threesome with Pryce and Ieuan, which eventually evolved into Super Furry Animals. Initially, the group was a techno outfit, in time they speedily evolved into a neo-psychedelic and progressive pop getup. After iI long time or writing and touring, the stripe sign with the Cardiff-based independent tag Ankst and released their debut EP, Lianfairpwllgywgyllgoger Chwymdrobwlltysiliogoygoyocynygofod (In Space), which was song exclusively in Welsh. It was followed inside a few months by another EP, Moog Droog, which was likewise sung in Welsh. Both EPs were produced by Gorwel Owen. By the end of 1995, Super Furry Animals had gained a unassailable, cross-generational fan base in Wales spell assembly a potent cult following in Britain, which light-emitting diode to a six-album record sign with Creation Records. Prior to sign language with Creation, the banding had distinct to whistle the majority of their songs in English, in order to reach a wider audience. Super Furry Animals and Owen produced the group's debut album, which was preceded by deuce singles in the leaping of 1996 -- "Hometown Unicorn" and "God! Show Me Magic" -- which became curb hits. Muzzy Logic, the band's debut album, was released in the U.K. in June 1996 to uniformly excellent reviews. Within a few months, SFA had go unmatchable of the hippest bands in British independent music, with respective of the group's lyric touchstones -- almost notably the notorious Welsh locoweed runner Howard Marks, world Health Organization appeared on the shroud of Blurry Logic -- having go pop culture references. Super Furry Animals likewise became ill-famed during the summer of 1996 for attendance 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 hit singles in the summer and fall of 1996. The latter single was scheduled to possess a B-side called "The Man Don't Give a Fuck," which was built on a sample distribution of Steely Dan's "Showbiz Kids," only Donald Fagen refused to give the group license to habit the recording. By November, he relented and "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" was released as a limited edition single 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 indorsement album, Radiator, which was released in August 1997. Insurgent followed two years afterward, and in mid-2000 the band resurfaced with Mwng. Cameos by John Cale and Paul McCartney were featured on the challenging 2001 album Rings Around the World, patch 2003's Phantom Power was a looser thing. The compiling Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 and the young album Love Kraft were both released in 2005. The grouping sign-language with the Rough Trade mark in 2006 and released the addictive pop record album Hey Venus! in 2007. |