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Album name:Phantom Power
A grim mood stalks the Super Furry Animals' spellbound sixth studio album, but, luckily, brilliant music spirits away the thematic gloom as florid semi-acoustic ballads and technicolor glam rock keeps the darkness at bay. Take 'Hello Sunshine,' a sleepy Beatles-esque number in which Gruff Rhys stands proud on a Freak Power ticket: 'I'm a minger / You're a minger too / So come on mingers / I want to ming with you.' When Phantom Power is bleak, it's startlingly so. The Stooges-like 'Out of Control' is as dark as any Furries song to date. But more often this collection is playful: Rhys appropriates the language of blues and twists it in modern angles on the galloping, glammy 'Golden Retriever,' while 'Slow Life' finds keyboardist Cian Ciaran's demonstrating a skill for electronic assimilation that's previously proved elusive. Sure, it's a jumble, but, like the Beatles' White Album, it hangs together. --Louis Pattison
1. Hello Sunshine 2. Liberty Belle 3. Golden Retriever 4. Sex, War & Robots 5. The Piccolo Snare 6. Venus & Serena 7. Father Father #1 8. Bleed Forever 9. Out Of Control 10. Cityscape Skybaby 11. Father Father #2 12. Valet Parking 13. The Undefeated 14. Slow Life
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