Gruff Rhys: C/D?

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

Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link

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.

afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link

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

afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link

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.

afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

Some sort of new website for the new album:

https://www.seekingnewgods.com/

groovypanda, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link

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.

afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link

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

afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link

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

"The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link

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

himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link

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

ufo, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link

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.

afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link

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armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 11 March 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link


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

afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 14 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link

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

afriendlypioneer, Monday, 15 March 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link

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

afriendlypioneer, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Another new one

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

groovypanda, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link

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

afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link

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.

afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link


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