Artist: Super Furry Animals
Title: Dark Days/Light Years
Label: Rough Trade
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 198kbit av
Time: 00:59:54
Size: 88.50 mb
Rip Date: 2009-04-14
Str Date: 2009-04-13
1. Crazy Naked Girls 6:15
2. Mt. 4:25
3. Moped Eyes 4:12
4. Inaugural Trams 5:19
5. Inconvenience 3:42
6. Cardiff In The Sun 8:16
7. The Very Best Of Neil Diamond 4:14
8. Helium Hearts 2:50
9. White Socks/Flip Flops 5:09
10. Where Do You Wanna Go? 2:28
11. Lliviau Llachar 3:12
12. Pric 9:52

Release Notes:

Storming back to centre stage after two years of side
projects, Super Furry Animals can be proud of Dark Days/Light
Years as a masterclass in cool and seemingly effortless
psychedelia. Bookended by an opening scene, apparently taped
as the band members arrived at the studio for the first day of
recording, and a secret hidden final bit that doesn't kick in
until well past the final notes of Pric, it's a fantastic set
that's all brain-filler and no buzz-killer

Although Crazy Naked Girl' (one of many arresting titles in
the collection) descends dangerously close to Spinal Tap
riff-a-rama, the lads seem sincere in their search for
mind-expanding music. They swerve wildly in the hunt for
inspiration, veering from Sly Stone funk to the neurotic
metronome of NEU!; and from CSN&Y laid-back pastoral acoustic
to glam-pop electric rampage. Indeed, it's easy to let listing
the tributes paid become a musical meditation as the album
ambles past

Despite the stunning beauty of tracks including 'Cardiff In
The Sun' and White Socks/Flip Flops, the band permit the
occasional cloud to block the summer weather - Inaugural Trams
evokes a sinister euro-pop disco stomp, The Very Best Of Neil
Diamond commemorates those who've died as collateral damage
and there's an indefinable melancholy underlying Helium
Hearts

SFA turned up for the recordings with the full set of effects
pedals and used every last one. Studio wizardry and phenomena
production skills allow a huge box of tricks to be opened
without the magic ever overwhelming the musicianship or
songwriting.

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