While followers of the sound will have no difficulty playing spot-the-influence, adorable turn out gleamingly
memorable fare in the bittersweet Sunshine Smile, and the yearning I'll Be Your Saint, and the mournful A To Fade In. They work up a ...
Technically, Candylion isn't the first solo album by Super Furry Animals' frontman Gruff Rhys, but
it's his first to be sung in English. More importantly, it has the form and feel of a pop album, which 2005's Yr Atal Genhedlaeth ...
It's difficult not to find Super Furry Animals' brand of pop infectious, particularly the collection
of numbers compiled for Guerrilla, the band's third full-length and arguably most cohesive -- albeit pleasingly and consistently unpredictable -- one to date. Old-school techno ...
Martin Newell -- working on this particular project with Martin Chapman and Paul Ripley-Thomas --
really began to hit his stride on this tape, which was filled to the gills with fetching melodies and odd, evocative lyrics, like Syd Barrett ...
Taking their turn at the decks, Glaswegian rockers Franz Ferdinand curate a guitar-friendly Late Night
Tales mix full of psych, funk, garage, disco, Northern soul, Krautrock, and R. Stevie Moore covering the Beatles. As is the tradition with the popular ...
The soundtrack to the edgy Tarantino-esque British film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels consists
largely of vintage punk rock (the Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog), R&B (James Brown's The Boss and The Payback), and reggae (Junior Murvin's Police ...
Because the fidelity here is rather primitive compared to his later tapes and records, it's
likely that only serious Newell/Cleaners fans will want to get this deep into his discography. If (only slightly) funky production values don't bother you (or ...