Super Furriest album poll

Greatest working band in the world as far as I'm concerned. Their bad tracks are rarely bad. I think people tend to get a bit hyperbolic about how "overrated" some of their albums are--Rings in particular. I love everything they've done. And both of Gruff's solo albums are fantastic. What's wrong with them?

And Love Kraft is an album that gets better with age. Very misunderstood IMO. I think part of the pleasure in listening to the band is seeing them develop through their career. How did they go from "God! Show me Magic" to "Walk You Home" to "White Socks/Flip Fops"

what is your order for their albums teflon monkey?

I'm still tussling over LK vs PP for my 5th-favourite

I have to say i'm starting to look forward to my (chronological) reassesment of Love Kraft. And the last one. Picking a favourite won't get any easier mind. Disappointed in the growing Fuzzy Logic lack of love on here though.

"Disappointed in the growing Fuzzy Logic lack of love on here though."

Me too. There are perhaps one or two slightly weaker tracks in the second half of the album, but it's pure genius, especially the first 7 songs = nearly all of them 10/10.

I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT MY ORDERING SYSTEM SO
Guerrilla
Radiator
Phantom Power
Fuzzy Logic
Dark Days/Light Years (and rising, might be one of my fave raves so far)
Mwng
Out Spaced
Rings Around The World
Love Kraft
Hey Venus

Guerrilla
Mwng
Fuzzy Logic
Rings Around the World
Outspace
Love Kraft
Hey Venus
Radiator

I really like the new one a lot. And I think that I enjoy Radiator the least of their albums. The production gets tiring on my ears.

Outspaced
Love Kraft
Phantom Power

Just obtained DD/LY today: Holy Shit, this is GOOD.

Yes to ^^^^ this! I haven't heard SFA's whole discography yet, but if there are a lot of SFA albums better than DD/LY front-to-back then this group is beyond amazing. The Very Best of Neil Diamond and Trams are on nonstop repeat for me these days.

Really, really trying to hold out for the U.S. physical release (I'm sort of OCD about buying physical copies of favorite bands when I already have the rest of their discography), but I just saw it isn't due until the end of May now!

Really, really wish "Mt." didn't exist...still, a very good record, despite the 2nd track completely destroying all the gloriously-attained momentum of "Crazy Naked Girls". The way that song takes 5 minutes of weirdly-lumbering stop-start chanting and guitar heroics to find its pulsating groove is just magnificent. But before we can get too much of a good thing...we plunge straight into the clunker. Ugh.

Fortunately, they spend the rest of the album making up for it. Only really "Cardiff In The Sun" numbers amongst their VERY best songs, but there's remarkable consistency at play here.

I like Mt. better than Crazy Naked Girls. Better groove, a narcotic-vibe, and less abrasive. But this part -- "there's remarkable consistency at play here" -- I'll happily cosign.

guess i'm a sucker for welsh. "lliwiau llachar" is my favorite on the new one, and mwng is still my favorite album of theirs. can't say why for sure except maybe cuz gruff's vocals sound even more to me like robert wyatt's when he's not singing in english, and i'm a sucker for robert wyatt too

everything since 2001 or thereabouts is largely forgettable. RONG.

You know what, I've never listened to a SFA album in my life before, which is strange because I've been aware of them from the start and equally aware that they epitomise everything I like about music. Is it too late to start?

― the next grozart Not at all. Jump on in, the water's weird.

the worst SFA has ever done stil >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that Gruff Rhys solo album. Dunno what was wrong with him then, but the album lacks everything that is great about SFA, even though you can hear it is the same guy.

Geir, have you heard the first (all-Welsh) Gruff Rhys album (Yr Atal Genhedlaeth)? Because it's a fucking pop monster. It's the opposite of the big, lush SFA sound but to my ears there's hardly a duff moment on it. Helps that if any of the lyrics suck, I have no way of knowing. No habla Cwmraeg. Candylion, I'll agree, was a bit limp, "Skylon" excepted.

Louis, your knee-jerk hatred of pop upsets me. Mt is great!

Still can't decide on what to vote in the poll. Listened to LoveKraft again the other day and was surprised how much I enjoyed it - if it wasn't for Psyclone and Back on a Roll I'd really love it. Haven't tried Hey Venus again yet.

After getting DD/LY on cd I was surprised at how long it is! It really doesn't feel like an hour, I guess because the beginning and end are kind of drawn-out a bit, and there's 4 relatively long songs, and Where Do You Want To Go?/Lliwiau Llachar takes longer than you think. The only disappointing thing on this album is the way Helium Hearts fades out, like they've created this beautiful song and don't quite know what to do with it.

I hope these guys never break up. each new album = comfort music.

New album is great, and if any of you are interested in their acid techno side I would recommend Acid Casuals, the side project of Cian from the band.

wtf "kneejerk hatred of pop", if I had that then would I like that slew of tracks towards the end? :-P

You hate the whole of Hello venus! though!

Rings Around The World
Guerrilla
Phantom Power
Dark Days/Light Years
Mwng
Hey Venus
Love Kraft
Radiator
Out Spaced
Fuzzy Logic

"Radiator" would be much higher on the list were it not for its atrocious sound, which hurts my ears after awhile. I tracked down the vinyl, thinking that it might be a mastering issue - nope. It needs a full remixing job, methinks. A "Radiator" with the sonic quality of, say, "Hey Venus" would be revelatory.

For the record, I have mellowed greatly to Hey Venus on hearing it again more recently, although it's not something I'll ever return to much, or care deeply for.

Radiator does have a really odd, brash sound. I don't dislike it, but it's nowhere near as easy on the ear as DD/LY or Hey Venus! or PP. I guess they were still very much finding their feet.

Even Guerilla sounds ten times better. Hermann Loves Pauline is easily one of my top 5 Furries jams, but the opening five seconds make headphone listening nigh on impossible.

Went through the whole discography, and now:

Fuzzy Logic
Guerrilla
Radiator
Outspaced
Mwng
Rings Around The World
Dark Days/Light Years
Hey Venus!
Love Kraft
Phantom Power

Radiator is the best and probably always will be.

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Ice Hockey Hair EP
Guerrilla
Radiator
Dark Days/Light Years
Rings Around The World
Phantom Power
Fuzzy Logic
Out Spaced
Mwng
Love Kraft
Hey Venus

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Man, how did Mwng only get 2 votes??

"Everyone's second favourite syndrome", isn't it?

Surprised at the love for Fuzzy Logic. It's not bad, but it just seems so... amateurish compared to everything else they've done, in terms of consistency.

I panic voted for Fuzzy Logic, as I thought it would be under-represented, and I really couldn't choose between any of the first six - I think a lot of it just comes down to what was going on when the album came out, and how I feel about that now. Incidentally, just noticed that apart from the new one and the compilations, all their albums have been released between May and August.

They're a summer band.

Wasn't the new one released just after clocks went forward?

Ya and it also brought a heatwave with it

The correct answer, of course, was Love Kraft

they are so old and dull now. although i got in trouble for saying that before but i can't imagine them doing anything exciting ever again. maybe that's the point of being old. you just make middle of the road competent things that will get you features in mojo.

They're older now...

and by the looks of it, not releasing a new record either.