Coincidentally, the day the new Gruff Rhys album arrives I'm closing in on the end of the S section of my records and about to start listening to Super Furry Animals. First up and still fizzing with energy like the first time I heard it in 1996 is their debut album.
SFA OK.
More SFA. The biggest selling Welsh language album ever.
At the midpoint of SFA albums now. This is the major label big budget album, featuring Paul McCartney and John Cale. Side three plays inside out and the bonus 7" is simply a lock groove sample of the song "All the Shit U Do".
A slight disappointment after their first 5 albums, but it still contains the majestic opener, Hello Sunshine.
Every band has to have a worst album, even if it's still pretty good.
Every now and again a band presses the reset button on their career, often after they've ended up in a creative cul-de-sac or have experienced a level of public indifference or a backlash about their music (REM with Accelerate and U2 with All That You Can't Leave Behind spring to mind). The band return with a back to basics album doing what they do best. I think this is what happened here. It's an enjoyable, and relatively brief, album.
If this is their final album then it's a wonderful way to end things.
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