Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
The Super Furry Animals' eighth album is perhaps a small step away from the spacey psychedelia that the Welsh quintet is best known for. Described by lead singer Gruff Rhys as "a 'speaker blowing' LP", there are very few moments on this album that aren't bursting with pure psych-pop goodness. Indeed, from the Phil Spectoresque "Run-Away" to the mellow soul of "Let the Wolves Howl At the Moon", there's harly a moment to catch your breath as the Animals take every good idea pop music has had in the last fifty years (these guys pulled out their old Beatles and Beach Boys vinyls) and turns into a sound that is invariably and unquestionably unique. Hey Venus! isn't the strongest album the Super Furry Animals have released, but it is one of their most immidiately engaging, and a good album to point to for anyone trying to discover what SFA is all about.
7.0/10
1 comment:
I liked the song Rings Around the World, but other than that, for some reason Super Furry Animals has never really appealed to me.
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