Super Furry Animals / Radiator
Artist Super Furry Animals
Album Title: Radiator
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Indie
Format CD
Released 10/15/1997
Label Creation Records
Catalog No 488719 2
Bar Code No 5 099748 871923
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Furryvision (1:25)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
2. The Placid Casual (2:49)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
3. The International Language Of Screaming (2:14)
(Sfa/Cian Ciaran/Dafydd Ieuan/Gruff Rhys/Guto Pryce/Huw Bunford)
4. Demons (5:11)
(Sfa/Cian Ciaran/Dafydd Ieuan/Gruff Rhys/Guto Pryce/Huw Bunford)
5. Short Painkiller (0:38)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
6. She's Got Spies (4:43)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
7. Play It Cool (3:15)
(Sfa/Cian Ciaran/Dafydd Ieuan/Gruff Rhys/Guto Pryce/Huw Bunford)
8. Hermann Loves Pauline (4:43)
(Sfa/Cian Ciaran/Dafydd Ieuan/Gruff Rhys/Guto Pryce/Huw Bunford)
9. Chupacabras (1:26)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
10. Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir (1:54)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
11. Bass Tuned To DEAD (3:20)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
12. Down A Different River (5:37)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
13. Download (3:19)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
14. Mountain People (6:14)
(Sfa/S.F.A.)
Date Acquired 10/29/2011
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Minneapolis
Purchase Price 6.00

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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Using the psychedelicized prog-punk of Fuzzy Logic as a foundation, Super Furry Animals move even further into left field on their second album, Radiator. As before, the group displays a gift for catchy, deceptively complex melodic hooks, but now its songwriting and arrangements are mind-bogglingly intricate and eclectic. Songs boast intertwining melodies and countermelodies, with guitars and keyboards swirling around the vocals. Similarly, the production is dense and heavy with detail, borrowing heavily from prog rock and psychedelic pop, but pieced together with the invention of techno and played with the energy of punk. It's a heady, impressive kaleidoscope of sounds, but what gives Radiator its weight is the way the sonics complement the songwriting. SFA's songs are melodic, accessible, and utterly original -- melodically, they may borrow from '60s pop, but they rearrange the clichés in fresh ways. Also, Gruff Rhys has a fondness for revolutionary politics and the bizarre that helps give Radiator its intoxicating, otherworldly atmosphere, making it one of the few late-'90s albums that sounds inventive, vibrant, and utterly contemporary.
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