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Track List
01) Crazy Naked Girls
02) Mt.
03) Moped Eyes
04) Inaugural Trams
05) Inconvenience
06) Cardiff in the Sun
07) The Very Best of Neil Diamond
08) Helium Hearts
09) White Socks/Flip Flops
10) Where Do You Wanna Go?
11) Lliwiau Llachar
12) Pric
01) Crazy Naked Girls
02) Mt.
03) Moped Eyes
04) Inaugural Trams
05) Inconvenience
06) Cardiff in the Sun
07) The Very Best of Neil Diamond
08) Helium Hearts
09) White Socks/Flip Flops
10) Where Do You Wanna Go?
11) Lliwiau Llachar
12) Pric
6:15
4:25
4:13
5:19
3:42
8:16
4:14
2:50
5:09
2:28
3:12
9:52
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First Released
2009
Psychedelic Rock
Gritty
Rock/Pop
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Dark Days/Light Years, the ninth studio album by Super Furry Animals, was released on the 21st of April on Rough Trade Records. The album's title is taken from a lyric in the song "Moped Eyes" ("dark days seem light years away").
Many of the songs on the album are based around riffs and grooves the band have been working on for several years and features only one slow song which "isn't slow at all". The statement went on to claim that the saxophone and lap steel guitar have been consigned to the "banned instrument directive of the SFA board" with drummer Dafydd Ieuan apparently developing a phobia of the latter.". The band originally planned to record the album in Miraval, France like their previous effort Hey Venus!, but decided to record in Cardiff with a considerably lower budget than previous efforts.
Longtime sleeve designer Pete Fowler collaborated with Hey Venus! artist Keiichi Tanaami to produce the album's artwork.
The track "Inaugural Trams" includes spoken word German vocals by Franz Ferdinand's Nick McCarthy.
At just over an hour, it is the band's longest album. To promote the album, lead singer Gruff Rhys described it as having a "biblical sound," and said that the band wouldn't be able to play any of its songs indoors
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Storming back to centre stage after two years of side projects, Super Furry Animals can be proud of Dark Days/Light Years as a masterclass in cool and seemingly effortless psychedelia. Bookended by an opening scene, apparently taped as the band members arrived at the studio for the first day of recording, and a secret hidden final bit that doesn’t kick in until well past the final notes of Pric, it’s a fantastic set that’s all brain-filler and no buzz-killer.
Although Crazy Naked Girl’ (one of many arresting titles in the collection) descends dangerously close to Spinal Tap riff-a-rama, the lads seem sincere in their search for mind-expanding music. They swerve wildly in the hunt for inspiration, veering from Sly Stone funk to the neurotic metronome of NEU!; and from CSN&Y laid-back pastoral acoustic to glam-pop electric rampage. Indeed, it’s easy to let listing the tributes paid become a musical meditation as the album ambles past.
Despite the stunning beauty of tracks including ‘Cardiff In The Sun’ and White Socks/Flip Flops, the band permit the occasional cloud to block the summer weather – Inaugural Trams evokes a sinister euro-pop disco stomp, The Very Best Of Neil Diamond commemorates those who’ve died as collateral damage, and there’s an indefinable melancholy underlying Helium Hearts.
SFA turned up for the recordings with the full set of effects pedals and used every last one. Studio wizardry and phenomena production skills allow a huge box of tricks to be opened without the magic ever overwhelming the musicianship or songwriting.
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Dark Days/Light Years, the ninth studio album by Super Furry Animals, was released on the 21st of April on Rough Trade Records. The album's title is taken from a lyric in the song "Moped Eyes" ("dark days seem light years away").
Many of the songs on the album are based around riffs and grooves the band have been working on for several years and features only one slow song which "isn't slow at all". The statement went on to claim that the saxophone and lap steel guitar have been consigned to the "banned instrument directive of the SFA board" with drummer Dafydd Ieuan apparently developing a phobia of the latter.". The band originally planned to record the album in Miraval, France like their previous effort Hey Venus!, but decided to record in Cardiff with a considerably lower budget than previous efforts.
Longtime sleeve designer Pete Fowler collaborated with Hey Venus! artist Keiichi Tanaami to produce the album's artwork.
The track "Inaugural Trams" includes spoken word German vocals by Franz Ferdinand's Nick McCarthy.
At just over an hour, it is the band's longest album. To promote the album, lead singer Gruff Rhys described it as having a "biblical sound," and said that the band wouldn't be able to play any of its songs indoors
User Album Review
Storming back to centre stage after two years of side projects, Super Furry Animals can be proud of Dark Days/Light Years as a masterclass in cool and seemingly effortless psychedelia. Bookended by an opening scene, apparently taped as the band members arrived at the studio for the first day of recording, and a secret hidden final bit that doesn’t kick in until well past the final notes of Pric, it’s a fantastic set that’s all brain-filler and no buzz-killer.
Although Crazy Naked Girl’ (one of many arresting titles in the collection) descends dangerously close to Spinal Tap riff-a-rama, the lads seem sincere in their search for mind-expanding music. They swerve wildly in the hunt for inspiration, veering from Sly Stone funk to the neurotic metronome of NEU!; and from CSN&Y laid-back pastoral acoustic to glam-pop electric rampage. Indeed, it’s easy to let listing the tributes paid become a musical meditation as the album ambles past.
Despite the stunning beauty of tracks including ‘Cardiff In The Sun’ and White Socks/Flip Flops, the band permit the occasional cloud to block the summer weather – Inaugural Trams evokes a sinister euro-pop disco stomp, The Very Best Of Neil Diamond commemorates those who’ve died as collateral damage, and there’s an indefinable melancholy underlying Helium Hearts.
SFA turned up for the recordings with the full set of effects pedals and used every last one. Studio wizardry and phenomena production skills allow a huge box of tricks to be opened without the magic ever overwhelming the musicianship or songwriting.
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