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Phantom Power

by Super Furry Animals

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Overall Rating: 3.3764 Phantom Power is ranked overall as 3.3764 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.3300 Phantom Power has an avg. critic score of 3.3300 out of 4 stars

Phantom Power Rank 3 Reviews

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ShakingThrough.net
There's a newfound depth to the Furries' music, a sense that no matter how hard the band tries to keep things positive, the darkness in the world has managed to encroach on its outlook and musical approach. ...more
Yahoo! Music
It's absurd, but Super Furry Animals have long been regarded as something of a novelty act. A superior novelty act, maybe, but - despite having five albums under their belt - one not properly deserving of admission to the pantheon of British Rock Greats. ...more
Ink 19
Some may consider the Super Furries to be treading water on Phantom Power because it feels comfortable and familiar. But when something sounds this good and touches this many bases, I'll take a few more like this one. ...more
Billboard
A diverse collection of intricately composed pop music, in the broadest sense of the genre. ...more
Splendid
As mindlessly captivating an album as you're likely to hear all year. ...more

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Amazon.com
Sure, it's a jumble, but, like the Beatles' White Album, it hangs together. ...more
Nude As The News
Yet another shining psychedelic opus. ...more
PopMatters
Though not quite as spectacular as Rings Around the World, Phantom Power is still one of the most refreshingly original and fun releases of the summer. ...more
Dot Music
A dreamy, sun-dappled delight, blending pastoral folk, psychedelia, free-wheeling, West Coast Americana and orchestral pop with such apparent effortlessness that its darker lyrical themes - the workings of sinister, invisible forces and the destruction ...more
All Music Guide
Phantom Power is a very good album (and, again, compared to many of SFA's peers in 2003, it is far ahead of the pack), but it does lack some of the things that made earlier Super Furry Animals so exhilarating -- the grit, the wild abandon, the absurdity, ...more
Entertainment Weekly
The Welsh quintet's concept-album ambitions are undercut by inherent goofiness, especially when the band parodies Robert Johnson (''Golden Retriever'') and Iron Maiden (''Out of Control''). ...more
Stylus Magazine
Even if the album sounds more restrained, there is nothing holding back the quality of the material. ...more
Rolling Stone
Densely composed yet effortlessly melodic. ...more
Stylus Magazine
Islipped offRings Around The Worldlike an ant off frictionless glass, its expensive and slick production screaming 'maturity!' and 'longevity!' at me until I couldn't hold on anymore and had to let go. Nonplussed byFuzzy Logic, in ...more

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