- Audio CD (July 4 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Flydaddy Records
- ASIN: B00004T8J5
Product Details
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| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. Drygioni (Badness) |
| 2. Ymaelodi A'r Ymylon (Joining the Periphery) |
| 3. Y Gwyneb Iau (Liverface) |
| 4. Dacw Hi (There She Is) |
| 5. Nythod Cacwn (Beehives) |
| 6. Pan Ddaw'r Wawr (When Dawn Breaks) |
| 7. Ysbeidiau Heulog (Sunny Intervals) |
| 8. Y Teimlad (The Feeling) |
| 9. Sarn Helen |
| 10. Gwreiddiau Dwfn (Deep Roots) and `Mawrth Oer Ar Y Blaned Neifion' (Cold Mars on Neptune) |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Cryndod yn Dy Lais |
| 2. Trons Mr Urdd |
| 3. Calimero |
| 4. Sali Mali |
| 5. (Nid) Hon Yw'r Gan Sy'n Mynd i Achub yr Iaith |
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Best thing about this record? Apart from the twinkling delicate beauty of the music, you can always sit back, skin up and imagine you know exactly what they're singing about.
Whether it is the opening (Badness) punkish stomper or the Beatles/Beach Boys/Love haunting of 'Joining the Periphery' you're listening to (or any of the other numbers) you'll soon find yourself singing along (doing your best with the Welsh words) because you may not understand what you're saying, but its SO catchy.
Many of the more contemporary sounds we've come to expect of the Furries aren't present (there is no techno stomper on the level of the last album's 'Mobile Phone') but do make some cameos, ie the vocoded bits on 'Sunny Intervals.'
That said, if you like exciting and interesting music that is breaking new ground or just super catchy pop or if you really loved the more traditional numbers on Guerilla like 'The Turning Tides,' 'Northern Lites,' 'The Teacher,' or 'Fire in my Heart' you should love this.
Strangely, the SFAs have yet to dent the POP! market outside of England (maybe Gruff's thick accent is why). If you give them a chance, they should dent your conscience and you're heart. Before you know it you'll be walking around saying things like "Ysbeidiau Heulog." Stranger things have happened.
Highlights are Track 6 'Pan ddaw'r wawr' (When dawn breaks) which has what is musically the Super Furry Animals' gene sound. Highlight of the second half is the blinding finale 'Gwreiddiau dwfn, Mawrth oer ar y blaned Neifion', translation too bizzare to mention here. It is an epic of early Neil Young proportions.
Buy this CD and get a taste of Welsh culture through the eyes of doped up twenty first century radicals. Long may they run.