The Super Furry Animals. Whether you love them or loathe them, you have at least heard of them. This bunch have been proving to the world for the better part of a decade that Tom Jones was an accident, and that Welsh music has a lot to offer. Summer ...more
Junkmedia
It is every bit the equal of recent pop classics like the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, or The Shins' Oh, Inverted World. ...more
Tiny Mix Tapes.com
I love it when you wake up one morning after a full week of rain and wet weather and you are greeted by the sweet and bright sunshine coming from your window. I can assure you that I had been living under wet skies for a full week now. But this ...more
New Musical Express
Their most focused, energetic pop record since 'Radiator'.... Certainly, 'Phantom Power' shows up Radiohead's timid adventures, while giving The Coral something to aim for too. ...more
Playlouder
Bugger if the Furries haven't gone and exceeded their own expectations with this, a total stonker of a new record that cannot fail to excite and delight on, oh, so many levels. ...more
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nme.com
The last Super Furry Animals album, 'Rings Around The World', was an album designed to broaden their appeal, but in fact it only split the vote. The album was polished for the mainstream, but all the buffing strangled the unpredictability and life ...more
Pitchfork
Phantom Power sees the down-to-earth Welsh band moving away from genre-hopping and rough juxtapositions, and beginning to blend their influences into an evenly spread melange that simply sounds like a highly evolved pop band. ...more
Pitch Fork Media
Six albums deep into their career, Super Furry Animals have world-built an entire mythology of Welsh mysticism, Beach Boys homages, and Pete Fowler's bubbly cartoons to such a point that slipping into Phantom Power comes as a comfortable, ...more
Stylus Magazine
Ninety-nine percent of fans will attribute the Super Furry Animalsâs greatness and (relatively) far-reaching acceptance to virtues that are difficult to find onPhantom Power: unpredictability, wildness, unrestricted fun, etc. In addition, a ...more
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