Gruff Rhys: C/D?

Has anyone been listening to the Gruff Rhys vs. Tony Da Gatorra album? It's interesting, though not necessarily in a good way. I'm pretty obsessed with the first track, "O Que Tu Tem?" I dunno why. Something about the guitars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsETS5ZEMrY

This is the one I like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944M8hBFDyQ

^see the dude on the furthest right of the shot who keeps turning his head to talk to someone, well that's me he's talking to

I remain a mysterious ilxor \0/

The 'proper' show (first clip) was fun imo but at least half the crowd left before the end. I fuck w/ the album, if it was some private press thing from 1974 or something that got dug up it would get all kinds of BJs from yer David Keenan/Aquarius types but it will prob mostly get listened to by SFA superfans who will hate it

that makes a very interesting point about the importance of backstory and context to an album's critical reception.

it's a completely sensible point, too.

I like that he had the balls to take this guy on tour and potentially alienate 95% of his fans who bought tickets to sold out shows.

I am completely in love with his new single, great video too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGdERPWoPU

New album Hotel Shampoo out in Feb, I'm suddenly really excited for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izIdmhrbwwg

Coming soon: Gruff Rhys iPod game.

wasn't he in the super furry animals once

new album is nice

His favourite albums: https://thequietus.com/articles/25919-gruff-rhys-interview-favourite-music?page=1

Hip af.

bought that Geraint Jarman LP for £2.50 the other day, it's not bad

His bandmate Cian did some really incredible Geraint Jarman covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6bqPPudio&frags=pl%2Cwn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVUqDfiZCBo&frags=pl%2Cwn

Found the writing in Gruff's thing a little hard to follow, tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVUqDfiZCBo

Disclaimer: I go off on one at times & signal is bad in the front room so just to note my dad was interested in liberation struggles not drum circles - & I didn’t articulate very clearly how Stockhausen influenced pop culture on many continents but that’s what Twitter is for -

— Gruff Rhys (@gruffingtonpost) January 23, 2019

lol, it's all coming together. Not the first Gruff interview where they misunderstood him on a few points.

Some sort of new website for the new album:

https://www.seekingnewgods.com/

Don't know who this is, but I imagine the market for Gruff Rhys & SFA rumors isn't particularly high in 2021 so I assume it's all true:

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/super-furry-animals.271987/page-31#post-26346994

This album was recorded before Pang!, so I don't think this will be the album to reveal if it has or not. To me, it sounds like a logical progression from Babelsberg, had Babelsberg not had the orchestra added to it. The band sounds tighter, which I suppose makes sense as they'd never all played together when they recorded Babelsberg and had quite a bit of touring under their belt when they recorded this one.

There's also some semi-salacious stuff about why SFA haven't recorded anything in a decade, but it's not that interesting.

I thought Babelsberg was a bit of a slog, unfortunately; the 'de-mix' more so, so I'll keep my expectations in line.

Honestly every Gruff album since Yr Atal has had 1-3 decent songs on it and the rest is a slog. He’s released enough now that it might be time for a good CD-80 Best Of

im not really looking forward to a new album from him but perhaps someone here has a gruff rhys jones

the stuff re: no new sfa material is basically what i'd heard previously: gruff just isn't interested/on the same page as the others at the moment, but it's not impossible that they do something new eventually

Maybe it's the relative dearth of material from the other guys compared to all that Gruff's released, but I'll take a few more Das Koolies releases over whatever concept album Gruff's got brewing. Those 2 or 3 tracks were promising.

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Join me on my YouTube Channel tomorrow at midday for the premiere of the video for my new single 'Loan Your Loneliness’. Set a reminder here . Tune into Lauren Laverne’s BBC Radio 6 Music show from 8am tomorrow to hear the exclusive worldwide first play.

Ymunwch â mi ar fy Sianel YouTube yfory 15/3/21 ganol dydd ar gyfer dangosiad cyntaf y fideo ar gyfer fy sengl newydd 'Loan Your Loneliness'. Lwrandewch ar sioe Lauren Laverne ar BBC Radio 6 Music@bbc6music o 8 bore fory i glywed y gân am y tro cyntaf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr3HnNMS1Cw

Despite my typical pre-release pessimism, the new song is actually pretty sweet.

Another new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCOztNcB3w

Hope there's some variety on the new one. MOR Gruff is nice, but I miss SFA Gruff.

Kind of changed my mind, though. Song is good. I like the pause near the end, then the chorus kicks in again. Video rules too. Hope there's one or two rockers.