Tag: super furry animals

Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla album review

REVIEW: Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla album review

Guerrilla is Super Furry Animals third album originally released back in 1999. Fast forward 20 years and it now gets the anniversary treatment with a remastered double vinyl album including demos and session tracks released via BMG Fri 1 November…

Festival Guide: Liverpool Psych 2016

Name: Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia / also known as PZYK Where: Camp and Furnace – Blade Factory – District When: 23rd to 24th September Headliners: Super Furry Animals, The Horrors Also Featuring: New Candys, The Moonlandingz, The Wytches, Eagulls,…

New Track: Kobadelta – ‘Bathsheba’

Newcastle band Kobadelta have returned with their heavily energised yet stirring track ‘Bathsheba’. Enthused with savage vocals and grimy bass, it resembles the dirtier work from the likes of Foals and Drenge. With catchy refrains (“We all keep moving backwards and…

Glastonbury 2015: The Good, the Bad and Kanye

The Pilton Festival (as Glastonbury was originally known) took place on 19th September, 1970. Tickets were £1 each (including free milk) and 1500 people turned up to watch headliners Tyrannosaurus Rex. At Glastonbury 2015 dinosaurs still rule the land, as evidenced by the huge…

The Greatest Bootlegs Ever, Vol. 1

Ah, the bootleg. That hiterto unheard-of piece of arcane musicalia for millennials born into an age with torrents, Spotify and every other file-sharing platform that makes loving music so little hard work now. Back in the day, it was all…

ALBUM REVIEW: The Pale Blue Dots ‘Lots Of Dots’

Rating: 2014 has been the year of the Super Furry Animals side project, and the latest comes care of guitarist Huw “Bunf” Bunford. The Pale Blue Dots is a particularly interesting hook-up as it sees Bunf exploring his musical kinship…

Interview: 9Bach @ Green Man festival

This year saw Welsh band 9Bach releasing their second album, Tincian, whose delicate yet deep and inventive sound has brought them a new level of adulation and a more mainstream audience. After their mesmerising Sunday afternoon set on the Mountain…

ALBUM REVIEW: Gulp ‘Season Sun’

Rating: If I have learned one thing in my time on this planet, it is not to try and second-guess a Super Furry Animal. The experimental Welsh rock band’s overall style has always managed to be at once immediately distinctive…