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Since their formation in 1993, the band has consisted of:

• Gruff Rhys - lead vocals, guitar
• Huw Bunford - lead guitar, vocals
• Guto Pryce - bass guitar
• Cian Ciaran - keyboards, synthesizers, various electronics, occasional guitar, vocals
• Dafydd Ieuan - drums, vocals

Gruff Rhys (pronounced ; born July 18, 1970 in Haverfordwest (Welsh: Hwlffordd) in south-west Wales) is a member of the Super Furry Animals who were at the forefront of the wave of successful Welsh bands which broke through into the mainstream music scene in the 1990s. ... Huw Bunford (also known as Bunf) is the guitarist in the band Super Furry Animals. ... Guto Pryce (born September 4, 1972) was a bass guitar player in the band Super Furry Animals. ... Cian Ciaran (born 16th June 1976) was the keyboard player in the band Super Furry Animals. ... Dafydd Ieuan (born March 1, 1969) is the drummer with the band Super Furry Animals. ...

History

Formation

The band formed in Cardiff after being in various other Welsh bands and techno outfits in the area. Rhys, Ieuan and Pryce had been together since the early 1990s and had toured the north coast of France as a techno group. After Bunford and Ciaran (the latter Ieuan's younger brother) joined, they then got to work on writing some songs, and in 1995 ended up signing to Ankst, the Welsh indie label. The band are considered to be part of the renaissance of Welsh music (and art, and literature) in the 1990s: other Welsh bands of the time include Catatonia, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and the Manic Street Preachers. The actor Rhys Ifans was briefly lead vocalist of the band, before they found national success. Cardiff (English:  , Welsh: ) is the capital, largest and core city of Wales. ... This article is about the country. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... Ankst is a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at Aberystwyth University by Alun Llwyd and Emyr Williams. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Catatonia were a popular music band from Wales who gained a national following in the United Kingdom in the mid-late 1990s. ... Gorkys Zygotic Mynci are a Welsh popular music band. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... On set: Importance of Being Idle From left: Andy Bell, Liam Gallagher, Rhys Ifans, Noel Gallagher, Zak Starkey and Gem Archer Rhys Ifans IPA: (approximately hris EEvans) (born 22 July 1968, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a Welsh actor. ...

The name of the band came from T-shirts being printed by Gruff's sister. She was making Super Furry Animals T-shirts for the fashion and music collective Acid Casuals (variants of whose name have appeared throughout SFA's career - for example, in their song "The Placid Casual", their record label Placid Casual)^[1]. Placid Casual logo Placid Casual is the Cardiff based record label set up in 1998 by Super Furry Animals. ...

1994-1995: Early recordings

The earliest SFA track to be commercially available is "Dim Brys: Dim Chwys", recorded in 1994 for Radio Cymru: an ambient piece, the track shows the band's techno roots. However, by the time it was released (on the "Triskedekaphilia" compilation album in August 1995), the band had already put out their debut EP on the Ankst label. The Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space) EP appeared in June 1995 to general critical acclaim and has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest-ever title for an EP. The Moog Droog EP followed in October 1995, named after the synthesizer manufacturer Robert Moog and the Nadsat term for "friend" in A Clockwork Orange (droog, itself derived from the Russian друг). The EP's title is also a pun on the Welsh Mwg Drwg, meaning "wacky baccy" (slang for cannabis, more literally "bad (or naughty) smoke"). The lyrics on all the tracks on both EPs were in Welsh, except for "God! Show Me Magic" from "Moog Droog". An extended play or EP, is the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to qualify as singles but too short to qualify as albums. ... Ankst is a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at Aberystwyth University by Alun Llwyd and Emyr Williams. ... Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochochynygofod (In Space) is the debut EP by the Super Furry Animals. ... Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World, Brampton. ... Moog Droog is the second EP released by the Super Furry Animals. ... Synthesizer as used in music, is a term derived from a Greek word syntithetai < synthesis (συντίθεται < σύνθεσις) and is used to describe a device capable of generating and/or manipulating electronic signals for use in music creation, recording and performance. ... Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (pronounced // to rhyme with vogue, not //) (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. ... Nadsat is a constructed slang dialect of English with many Russian influences invented by the linguist, novelist, and composer Anthony Burgess. ... This article is about the film. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Look up Cannabis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

After gigging in London in late 1995, they were noticed by Creation Records boss Alan McGee at the Camden Monarch club (only their second gig outside Wales), who signed them to his label. Creation was also home to the likes of Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub, and had recently found massive commercial success with Oasis. The band have said that having watched their gig, McGee asked them if they could sing in English rather than Welsh in future shows. In fact, by this stage they were singing in English, but McGee didn't realise because their Welsh accents were so strong. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... At least two different record labels called Creation Records have existed. ... Alan McGee is a British music industry mogul and musician famed for founding the independent Creation Records label which ran from 1983 to 2000. ... Camden Town is an area of North London, England, in the London Borough of Camden. ... This article is about the country. ... Primal Scream are a rock group formed as a duo in 1982 in Glasgow, Scotland, by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie, evolving into a band in 1984 at which time Gillespie was also the drummer in The Jesus and Mary Chain. ... Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band from Bellshill, near Glasgow, formed in 1989. ... Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

1996-1998: Fuzzy Logic to Out Spaced

In February 1996, the band's debut on Creation, "Hometown Unicorn", became New Musical Express's Single of the Week, chosen by guest reviewers Pulp, and the first SFA single to chart in the UK Top 50, peaking at #47. The follow-up, a re-recording of "God! Show Me Magic", charted at #33 upon release in April 1996 and also became NME single of the week. Rawer than the "Moog Droog" version, it clocks in at only 1 min 50 secs. In May, their debut album Fuzzy Logic was released, again to wide critical acclaim. Sales were slow, with the album peaking at #23 in the charts, but it garnered a little more interest when next single "Something 4 the Weekend" (a reworked, more mellow version of the album track) was given considerable radio airplay and charted at #18 in July 1996. Hometown Unicorn is the debut single by Super Furry Animals, released on Alan McGees Creation Records label on February 26, 1996. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ... Pulp are a rock band, formed in Sheffield, England in 1978, by then 15-year-old school-boy Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar). ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... God! Show Me Magic is the second single by Super Furry Animals. ... Fuzzy Logic is the name of the debut album by the Super Furry Animals. ... Something 4 the Weekend is the third single by Super Furry Animals. ...

The final single from the album, "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You", was to have been backed by a track called "The Man Don't Give a Fuck". However, there were problems in clearing a sample from "Showbiz Kids" by Steely Dan which formed the basis of the chorus, and it was switched for a different track. The single charted at #18. However, SFA regarded "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" as one of their best songs to date and continued their efforts to clear the sample. When they managed this, there was no upcoming release to attach it to - so it came out as a limited edition single in its own right, in December 1996. This ultimately cemented its legendary status and did much to establish SFA as cult heroes, as the song contained the word "fuck" over 50 times and therefore received practically no airplay. However, it hit #22 in the charts and became SFA's standard closing number when they played live. If You Dont Want Me to Destroy You is the fourth single, and the last to be taken from the album Fuzzy Logic, by Super Furry Animals. ... The Man Dont Give a Fuck is a song by the Super Furry Animals twice released as singles by them. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In early 1997, SFA embarked on the NME Brats Tour and completed work on a speedy follow-up to Fuzzy Logic. Two singles preceded the new album, "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" in May and "The International Language of Screaming" in July, hitting #26 and #24 respectively: these releases were the first to feature cover art from Pete Fowler, who has designed the sleeves of all their releases since. The album, Radiator, hit shelves in August. The reviews were, if anything, better than those for Fuzzy Logic, and it sold more quickly than its predecessor, reaching a peak of #8: however, Creation did not serve the album particularly well by releasing it just four days after the long-awaited new effort from Oasis, Be Here Now. Two further singles, "Play it Cool" (released September 1997) and "Demons" (November 1997) both hit #27 in the charts, suggesting that SFA had hit a commercial ceiling though which they were struggling to break. However, they had established themselves as favourites in the music press, a cut above the majority of their Britpop peers. Not to be confused with the Canadian music magazine Music Express The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music magazine in the United Kingdom which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... Hermann ♥s Pauline is the fifth single by Super Furry Animals and the first to be released from their second album Radiator. ... The International Language of Screaming is the sixth single by Super Furry Animals. ... Pete Fowler (born 1969 in Cardiff) is a Welsh artist and illustrator best known for his artwork for the Welsh band Super Furry Animals. ... Radiator is the second album by the Super Furry Animals. ... For other uses, see Be Here Now (disambiguation). ... Play It Cool is the seventh single by Super Furry Animals. ... Demons is the eighth single by Super Furry Animals and the last to be taken from the album Radiator. ...

After a chance to think about their music and their direction, SFA decided to recorded a new EP in early 1998 at Gorwel Owen's house and released it in May. This was the Ice Hockey Hair EP, widely held as one of their finest moments. ("Ice hockey hair" is a slang term for a mullet.) Featuring four tracks, the EP presented SFA's unmistakable songwriting skills alongside fresh-sounding beats and a loop sampled from Black Uhuru. The title track, a melodic and very moving epic, gained airplay while "Smokin'" became another favourite with the fans. Its "I just want to smoke it" refrain won instant appeal and approval. In a Melody Maker interview, SFA said the "Smokin'" referred to smoking haddock, or to truck drivers' tyres when they're 'burnin' the roads'. It became their most successful single up to this point, hitting #12 in the charts and leading to a memorable appearance on "Top of the Pops". An extended play or EP, is the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to qualify as singles but too short to qualify as albums. ... Ice Hockey Hair is an EP released in 1998 by the Super Furry Animals. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In electronic music, a loop is a sample which is repeated. ... Black Uhuru is a Jamaican reggae band probably best known for their hits Shine Eye Gal, Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, Sinsemilla, Solidarity, and What Is Life?. They were the first group to win a Grammy in the reggae category when it was introduced in 1985. ... Binomial name Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) The haddock or offshore hake is a marine fish distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic. ... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...

In November 1998, the album Out Spaced was released. This was a collection of songs from the 1995 Ankst releases (including "Dim Brys: Dim Chwys"), the band's favourite B-sides, plus "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" and "Smokin'". A limited edition appeared in a comedy rubber sleeve, shaped like a nipple. Many saw the collection as drawing a line under SFA's initial phase, in preparation for more ambitious work to come. 1998 B-Sides and Rarities album by the Super Furry Animals. ...

1999-2000: Guerrilla and Mwng

1999 proved to be a big year for SFA. NME readers named them Best New Band in January. In May, the single "Northern Lites" was released and made #11 in the charts. A dense production, with steel drums clattering out a calypso rhythm whilst Gruff sang an irreverent lyric about the El Niño-Southern Oscillation weather phenomenon, it was an apt taster for the new album, Guerrilla. Recorded at the Real World Studios, the album retained SFA's pop melodies but took a less guitar-centric approach to their execution and was their most experimental work to date. Layers of samples over brass, percussion and Gruff's melodic singing produced an album which took the freewheeling approach of 1960s groups such as The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Velvet Underground and updated it to the late 1990s. The album swung from glam and garage rock numbers ("Night Vision", "The Teacher") to novelty techno ("Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)"), ambient indietronica ("Some Things Come From Nothing") and upbeat drum and bass ("The Door To This House Remains Open"). For the cover art, Pete Fowler created the band's first three-dimensional models, rather than the paintings he had supplied for the Radiator album and singles. Northern Lites is the ninth single by Super Furry Animals and the first to be taken from the album Guerrilla. ... El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. ... Guerrilla is the third studio album by Super Furry Animals, released in June 1999, reaching as high as #10 in the UK album chart. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... For other uses, see Brass (disambiguation). ... A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... First formed in 1961, The Beach Boys are an American rock and roll band that gained popularity for their close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of surfing, girls and cars. ... The Velvet Underground (sometimes shortened to The Velvets or The VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. ...

After playing several of the summer festivals, SFA released "Fire in My Heart", the most soulful track from Guerrilla, in August and saw it chart at #25. They then embarked on a US and UK tour. SFA finished their UK tour at the Cardiff International Arena in Cardiff, where they showcased the first ever concert in surround sound and broadcast it on the World Wide Web. For other uses, see Festival (disambiguation). ... Fire in My Heart is the tenth single by Super Furry Animals. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Tour may mean: Concert tour, series of performances in different markets Tourism, travel for pleasure James Tour, nanoscientist Le Tour de France, the worlds biggest bicycle race This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Cardiff (English:  , Welsh: ) is the capital, largest and core city of Wales. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ...

January 2000 involved a series of changes for SFA. The last single from Guerrilla, "Do or Die", was released and made #20. It was also the last single SFA released on Creation Records, as founder Alan McGee set off to pursue other interests. It had always been SFA's plan to release their next album on their own label, Placid Casual, as it would be a deliberate sidestep from their recent work: a largely acoustic album of Welsh language songs entitled Mwng. Meaning "mane", its lilting melodies established that SFA's songwriting did not have to fall back on head-spinning production tricks. A limited edition (of 3000) 7 inch record, "Ysbeidiau Heulog" (meaning "Sunny Intervals") preceded Mwng in May 2000. It came backed with "Charge", a hard-rock jam recorded as a Peel Session for the BBC. The album, released the same month, sold remarkably well for a non-English LP - it made #11 in the charts - and received a rare distinction for a pop record, being commended in Parliament for its efforts in keeping the Welsh language alive. Do or Die is the eleventh single by Super Furry Animals. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Mwng (Welsh: Mane) is an album by Super Furry Animals. ... Look up mane in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. ... Ysbeidiau Heulog (English: Sunny Spells) is the twelfth single by Super Furry Animals. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...

2000 also saw the Furries contribute two tracks, Free Now and Peter Blake 2000, for the Liverpool Sound Collage project, which was nominated for a Grammy. They undertook this remixing of unreleased Beatles recordings at the invitation of Paul McCartney, whom they had met at the NME Awards, where they had won Best Live Act. Liverpool Sound Collage (2000) is an ambient techno album by Paul McCartney, which is also credited to The Beatles, Super Furry Animals and Youth, the last of whom McCartney had released two projects with under the moniker The Fireman. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award and Grammy Award winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... The NME Awards are an annual music awards show, founded by the music magazine NME (New Musical Express). ...

2001-2003: Rings Around the World and Phantom Power

With the demise of Creation, SFA needed to find a new label for their next album. Sony had long held a substantial stake in Creation and offered deals to many ex-Creation artists, including SFA, who signed with one of Sony's subsidiaries, Epic. The band pushed for a deal which allowed them to take a new album elsewhere if the label wasn't interested in releasing it - thereby allowing them to find a home for any esoteric project they might want to undertake in the future.

The greater resources afforded them by Epic were apparent in their first album for the label, Rings Around the World, an album that recaptured the cohesive, experimental feel of Guerrilla but more song-driven and sonically expansive. It is cited by many critics and fans alike as their most polished and accessible work. Again the first single was a good indication of what was to come: "Juxtapozed with U", released in July 2001, was a lush soul record which made #14 in the charts. The album followed in the same month and major label marketing muscle made it their biggest-seller to date, reaching #3 in the album charts. One of the tracks from the album, "Receptacle For the Respectable" featured Paul McCartney on "carrot and celery rhythm track" (a homage to his performance on the Beach Boys' "Vegetables"). SFA unleashed their experimental side on tracks such as "Sidewalk Serfer Girl" (which switches between light techno-pop and hardcore punk), "[A] Touch Sensitive" (gloomy trip-hop) and "No Sympathy" (which descends into chaotic drum'n'bass), but also apparent was an angrier edge to the lyrics: "Run! Christian, Run!" seemed to be an attack on the complacency of organised religion. Rings around the World is the fifth studio album and the major label debut by Super Furry Animals. ... Juxtaposed with U is the thirteenth single by Super Furry Animals. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award and Grammy Award winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... The Beach Boys, originally the Beech Boys, a small team of four brothers from the south of Poland, emigrated to America in the early 1950s in search of a fortune to be made in the Arizonian logging industry. When it soon became evident they had been the victims of...

Rings Around the World is also remarkable for being the world's first simultaneous release of an audio and DVD album. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2001. The ceremony took place on the day after the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and SFA's performance of the album track "It's Not the End of the World?" took on a somewhat bitter edge. It was released as a single in January 2002 (chart #30), following "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" (chart #28): neither had that much impact but still received some airplay, notably on BBC Radio 2. Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... The Mercury Music Prize, now officially known as the Nationwide Mercury Prize, is a music award given annually for the best British or Irish album of the previous 12 months. ... Its Not the End of the World? is the fifteenth single by Super Furry Animals. ... (Drawing) Rings Around the World is a song by Super Furry Animals. ...

The next album, Phantom Power, relied less on sound experimentation and proved to be a more stripped-down, back-to-basics recording in contrast to the orchestral Rings Around the World. It was also released as both a CD and DVD album in July 2003, preceded by a single, "Golden Retriever", in June (chart #13). Although the reviews for the album were generally good and it sold well initially, charting at #4, the album broke little new ground by SFA's standards and the band had fallen out of fashion, receiving little coverage in the music press. Another single, "Hello Sunshine", hit #31 in October 2003 and was eventually featured on the soundtrack of The O.C.. Phantom Power is the sixth album by Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals. ... Golden Retriever is the sixteenth single by Super Furry Animals. ... Hello Sunshine is the seventeenth single by Super Furry Animals. ... The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on FOX in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. ...

2004-2005: Phantom Phorce to Love Kraft

Perhaps recognising that their approach to Phantom Power had been a little too straightforward, the group followed it up in 2004 with a remix version, Phantom Phorce, with tracks reworked by the likes of Killa Kela, Four Tet and Brave Captain. They accompanied this with a download single, "Slow Life", which also included the track "Motherfokker", a collaboration with Goldie Lookin Chain, both tracks are now available as a free download via the Placid Casual website [1]. In October 2004 the band released a "best of" album, Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1, accompanied by a single - a live version of "The Man Don't Give A Fuck" (chart #16). Phantom Phorce is a remix album of Super Furry Animals 2003 album Phantom Power. ... Slow Life is an EP released in 2004 by the Super Furry Animals. ... Goldie Lookin Chain (often abbreviated to GLC; not to be confused with the American rapper) are a Welsh pop group based in Newport, Wales. ...

In early 2005, Gruff Rhys released a solo album Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, ("The Stuttering Generation", and also a play on words as "Atal Genhedlu" means contraception), sung all in Welsh. Gruff played most of the instruments himself, mainly using guitars, drums and his own multi-tracked voice. The band also selected tracks for a volume in the Under the Influence series of compilations, in which artists present the songs that they feel have most contributed to their sound. Yr Atal Genhedlaeth is the debut solo album by Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Under the Influence is a series of various artist compilation albums released by DMC UK. The tracks for each album are chosen by an artist or band to show the music that has influenced their work. ...

Also in 2005 it was reported that the band turned down a $1.8m advertising deal with Coca-Cola after visiting a Coca-Cola plantation in Colombia with charity War on Want, where they heard of management-directed killings of trade-union members. The company were asking for use of "Hello Sunshine" as part of their campaign. In a statement to British magazine Q, Coca-Cola denied the allegations, stating they had been "an exemplary member of the business community" in Colombia. ^[2] ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ... War On Want is a campaigning charity based in London, England, which highlights the needs of poverty-stricken areas around the world, lobbying governments and international agencies to tackle problems, as well as raising public awareness of the concerns of developing nations. ... Hello Sunshine is the seventeenth single by Super Furry Animals. ... Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ...

In August 2005, Super Furry Animals released their seventh studio effort, Love Kraft, recorded in Brazil. This represented a departure from their previous working methods: although all five members had always contributed to the development of the songs, Gruff had been the main songwriter. On Love Kraft this was no longer the case, as Gruff, Bunf, Daf and Cian all contributed songs and lead vocals. There was only one single from the album, "Lazer Beam", released on 15 August (chart #28). The laid-back ambience recalls early-1970s Beach Boys albums such as Surf's Up (which SFA have referred to as one of their all-time favourite albums), whilst the heavy use of strings suggested the likes of Scott Walker and Curtis Mayfield. The album's cool commercial reception (it charted at just #19) suggested that they had returned to their familiar status of critically-acclaimed cult favourites. Love Kraft was also the last album released under Epic Records, as their contact expired in early 2006. Love Kraft is the seventh album by Welsh band Super Furry Animals. ... Lazer Beam is a single by Super Furry Animals. ... is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the 2007 film, see Surfs Up (film). ... Scott Walker is the stage name of the American singer-songwriter Noel Scott Engel (born 9 January 1943 in Hamilton, Ohio). ... Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American soul, funk and R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Superfly. ...

2006-present: signing to Rough Trade

Cian's side project Acid Casuals released their debut album "Omni" in January 2006 on the Placid Casual label. Drummer Daf formed a band known as The Peth which has been described by Gruff in various magazine articles as "Satanic Abba": the band also reunites Rhys Ifans with the SFA family, as he takes lead vocal duties. The band have posted two songs on their MySpace page and their sound is very reminiscent of the albums Radiator and Guerrilla. On set: Importance of Being Idle From left: Andy Bell, Liam Gallagher, Rhys Ifans, Noel Gallagher, Zak Starkey and Gem Archer Rhys Ifans IPA: (approximately hris EEvans) (born 22 July 1968, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a Welsh actor. ... Radiator is the second album by the Super Furry Animals. ... Guerrilla is the third studio album by Super Furry Animals, released in June 1999, reaching as high as #10 in the UK album chart. ...

The band signed to Rough Trade Records during 2006 and are reportedly working on three projects for the label. Gruff Rhys has also signed for Rough Trade Records as a solo artist in his own right and released a single on 7" vinyl and download entitled "Candylion" in late 2006 which preceded an album of the same name that was released during the second week of 2007. Unlike his debut Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, Candylion is primarily sung in English but has two Welsh tracks and one in "bad Spanish": it is primarily an acoustic album, and came about because Rhys has written several acoustic pop songs that didn't fit with the direction of the new SFA record. Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ... Gruff Rhys (pronounced ; born July 18, 1970 in Haverfordwest (Welsh: Hwlffordd) in south-west Wales) is a member of the Super Furry Animals who were at the forefront of the wave of successful Welsh bands which broke through into the mainstream music scene in the 1990s. ... Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ... Yr Atal Genhedlaeth is the debut solo album by Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys. ... Candylion is the second solo album by Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys. ...

Recording sessions took place in a chateau in the south of France in 2007 for the band's first release for Rough Trade, Hey Venus!. Drowned in Sound confirmed the first single as being "Show Your Hand". The single is due out on August 13, with the album to follow on August 27. Hey Venus! is the eighth album by Welsh band Super Furry Animals, described by Gruff Rhys as a speaker blowing LP and slated for release at the end of August.[1] ^ Super Furry Animals reveal new album title. ... The Drowned in Sound logo Drowned in Sound or DiS is a UK based music webzine dedicated to new music. ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Discography

Studio albums

• Fuzzy Logic (20 May 1996)
  Chart Position: #23 (UK)

• Radiator (25 August 1997)
  Chart Position: #8 (UK)

• Guerrilla (7 June 1999)
  Chart Position: #10 (UK)

• Mwng (15 May 2000)
  Chart Position: #11 (UK)

• Rings Around the World (23 July 2001)
  Chart Position: #3 (UK)

• Phantom Power (21 July 2003)
  Chart Position: #4 (UK)

• Love Kraft (22 August 2005)
  Chart Position: #19 (UK)

• Hey Venus! (27 August 2007)
  Chart Position: N/A (UK)

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Compilations and remix albums

• Out Spaced (23 November 1998)
  Chart Position: #44 (UK)

• Phantom Phorce (19 April 2004)
  Chart Position: N/A (UK)

• Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 (4 October 2004)
  Chart Position: #18 (UK)

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Singles and EPs

Non-album singles:

• "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochocynygofod (In Space)" (EP) (June, 1995)
  Chart Position: #151 (UK) (Charted 1997)
• "Moog Droog" (EP) (October, 1995)
  Chart Position: #163 (UK) (Charted 1997)

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• "Hometown Unicorn" (March 9, 1996)
  Chart Position: #47 (UK)
• "God! Show Me Magic" (May 11, 1996)
  Chart Position: #33 (UK)
• "Something 4 the Weekend" (July 13, 1996)
  Chart Position: #18 (UK)
• "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" (October 12, 1996)
  Chart Position: #18 (UK)

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• "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (December 14, 1996)
  Chart Position: #22 (UK)

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• "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" (May 24, 1997)
  Chart Position: #26 (UK)
• "The International Language of Screaming" (July 14, 1997)
  Chart Position: #24 (UK)
• "Play it Cool" (September 22, 1997)
  Chart Position: #27 (UK)
• "Demons" (November 24, 1997)
  Chart Position: #27 (UK)

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• "Ice Hockey Hair" (EP) (May 25, 1998)
  Chart Position: #12 (UK)

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• "Northern Lites" (May 10, 1999)
  Chart Position: #11 (UK)
• "Fire in My Heart" (August 9, 1999)
  Chart Position: #25 (UK)
• "Do or Die" (January 17, 2000)
  Chart Position: #20 (UK)

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• "Ysbeidiau Heulog" (May 1, 2000) [Limited]
  Chart Position: #89 (UK)

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• "Juxtapozed with U" (July 9, 2001)
  Chart Position: #14 (UK)
• "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" (October 8, 2001)
  Chart Position: #28 (UK)
• "It's Not the End of the World?" (January 14, 2002)
  Chart Position: #30 (UK)

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• "Golden Retriever" (July 14, 2003)
  Chart Position: #13 (UK)
• "Hello Sunshine" (October 20, 2003)
  Chart Position: #31 (UK)
• "Slow Life" (EP) (April 19, 2004) [Limited]
  Chart Position: N/A (UK)

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• "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (22 minute version live at the Hammersmith Apollo) (September 27, 2004)
  Chart Position: #16 (UK)

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• "Lazer Beam" (August 15, 2005)
  Chart Position: #28 (UK)

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• "Show Your Hand" (August 13, 2007)
  Chart Position: #46 (UK) #2 (UK Indie)

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Misc/rarities

• Under the Influence (Mix) (February 15, 2005)

Under the Influence is a series of various artist compilation albums released by DMC UK. The tracks for each album are chosen by an artist or band to show the music that has influenced their work. ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Superfurry.com - the official site
• ringsaroundtheworld.com - the official site for the album
• phantom-power.com - the official site for the album
• mwng.co.uk - the official site for the album
• lovekraft.co.uk - the official site for the album
• placidcasual.com - band's label
• candylion.co.uk - Gruff Rhys solo
• Superfurry.org - a fan site, from where this article was adapted
• Super Furry Animals site from the BBC