Originally released on Mon 22 August 2005, the Furries’ third and final album to be recorded by Epic Records, Love Kraft is reissued on double vinyl and  2CDs, including the 22-track bonus CD, Kiss Me With Apocalypse  via the Cardiff-based independent label, Strangetown Records. Four previously unheard tracks are drawn from the vaults, including the squidgy ELO-stomp of drummer, Daf Ieuan-led Rock ‘N’ Roll Flu, plus the distorted space-jam of Cae Marw, the band’s deep-bass sketch of Palo Alto and ghostly, percussive morsel of Bedw Arian.

The album followed six previous albums by the band, including their statement debut album, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, melding an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences. Maintaining a shape that was ill-fitting in the jigsaw of other 90’s guitar bands, their follow-up, UK Top Ten album, Radiator brought the hooky squelch of the bona fide indie dancefloor classic, The International Language of Screaming. The next decade saw the release of the first Top 20-charting, Welsh language album, Mwng (2000), followed by further experimentation and commercial success with Rings Around The World (2001) and Phantom Power (2003).

'Love Kraft’s sense of cohesion, collaboration and free-flow of rich harmony has been credited to the five-piece escaping Wales to record in the shimmering heat of Figueres, Catalunya. Bringing famed Beastie Boys producer, Mario Caldato Jr along with them for the ride, the travelling band’s stay in the Catalonian hometown of Salvador Dali included found sounds, boozy petrol stations, gastronomic revelations and, finally, a rich album of strings, synths and opulent vocal harmonies.

While eventually finding their way to Baha, near to Rio di Janeiro to mix the album 'Love Kraft’s story began in Wales and Pleasure Foxxx Studios, where the band began to craft the album’s songs. Embracing the landmark of a seventh album, notably coming after the 2004 release of their first ‘best of…’ package, 'Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1', Super Furry Animals pooled ideas and affected further democracy in their songwriting, taking a load off traditional lead-writer and front man, Gruff Rhys, and sharing in lead vocal duties (aside from the microphone-averse bassist, Guto Pryce).

'Love Kraft' was the first Super Furry Animals album recorded to hard disc instead of multi-track tape, and found the band typically explorative and open to happenstance. Zoom’s opening splash into the recording studio’s swimming pool is accompanied by the on-location, pool table samples found elsewhere on the album. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Twenty years ago? Wow! I always really loved this album, starting with the brilliant artwork and then journeying inwards to the land of dreams and whimsy and layers of sound. My favourite song is Lazer Beam which just packs everything this glorious madcap band does into four magical, spiralling minutes. Another megarecord and a timely reissue.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Zoom!
2. Atomik Lust
3. The Horn
4. Ohio Heat
5. Walk You Home 
6. Lazer Beam 
7. Frequency 
8. Oi Frango
9.  Psyclone! 
10. Back On A Roll 
11. Cloudberries 
12. Cabin Fever
13.  *surprise*

CD Tracklisting:
CD1:
1. Zoom!
2. Atomik Lust
3. The Horn
4. Ohio Heat
5. Walk You Home
6. Lazer Beam
7. Frequency
8. Oi Frango
9. Psyclone!
10. Back On A Roll
11. Cloudberries
12. Cabin Fever
13. Sunny Seville
14. Rock ‘n’ Roll Flu
15. Never More
16. Colonise The Moon

CD2:
1. Zoom! (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
2. Atomik Lust (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
3. The Horn (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
4. Ohio Heat (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
5. Lazer Beam (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
6. Frequency (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
7. Oi Frango (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
8. Psyclone! The SFA Cut (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
9. Back On A Roll (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
10. Cabin Fever (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
11. Cae Marw (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
12. The Gateway Song (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
13. Rock ‘n’ Roll Flu (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
14. Never More (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
15. Palo Alto (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
16. These Bones (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
17. Bing Bong (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
18. Bedw Arian (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
19. The Gateway Song (Rough Mix)
20. Psyclone! (Future Force)
21. Psyclone! (The Flaming Lips)
22. Zoom! (uncut Master Take)

Super Furry Animals were one of the first post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres - including power pop, punk rock, techno, and progressive rock - creating a shimmering, melodic, irreverent, and wilfully artsy rock & roll.

Produced by the band, ‘Phantom Power’, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023, keeps a much lower profile than the band’s previous work. The album, for the most part, is awash with pedal steel, acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies. But if you think the creative juices have ceased, you could barely be more wrong.

Gruff Rhys' songwriting moves a step forward on ‘Phantom Power’, with playful story-based lyrics about turtles, mingers, ninjas and cabbages contrasting with lines about death, radiation and war.

This 2LP heavyweight black vinyl deluxe reissue, with original artwork and die-cut sleeve, has been carefully remastered from the mixdown tapes and includes liner notes from the album’s executive producer Kurt Stern.

If you need more Super Furries, the remastered album is also available as a 3CD format, with two CDs packed with loads of bonus material, including out-takes, demos, and live versions, much of it previously unreleased.

TRACK LISTING

CD1 / 2LP Tracklisting:
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

CD2
1. Father Father #3
2. Summer Snow
3. Blue Fruit
4. Cowbird
5. Sanitizzzed
6. Motherfokker Feat. Goldie Lookin Chain
7. Lost Control
8. The Man Don’t Give A Fuck (Live)

CD3
1. Father Father*
2. Hello Sunshine*
3. Aluminum Illuminati
4. Cabbages (retitled Cityscape Skybaby)*
5. Golden Retriever*
6. Hummingbird (retitled Cloudberries)*
7. Billy’s Gone (retitled Out Of Control)*
8. Head First (retitled Paddling Pools)*
9. No Go (retitled Summer Snow)*
10. Father Father*
11. Sex, War & Robots**
12. Bluebird 1**
13. Bluebird 2**
14. Bluebird 3**
15. Bluebird 4**
16. Walk You Home**
17. The Undefeated**
18. Every Building Has Been Built**
19. Blue Fruit**
20. Valet Parking**
21. Valet Parking***
22. Out Of Control ***
23. Paddling Pools***
24. Miami Vice***
25. Slow Life***

*Stiwdio Ofn Demo, Gwanwyn 2002
**AV Happenings Demo, Chwefror 2002
***Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002

The fifth studio album from Welsh quintet Super Furry Animals was their most commercially successful to date. A musically eclectic record, incorporating pop, prog, punk, jungle, electronica, techno and death metal, the album was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize in 2001 and named as Mojo’s best album in the same year. 

The Super Furries had a knack of taking bits of 60s classics, modern electronics, and everything inbetween and melding them into flawless, if slightly off kilter, pop gems and here they did it to perfection.

TRACK LISTING

1. A1 Alternate Route To Vulcan Street
2. A2 Sidewalk Serfer Girl
3. A3 (Drawing) Rings Around The World
4. B1 It’s Not The End Of The World
5. B2 Receptacle For The Respectable
6. B3 [A] Touch Sensitive
7. B4 Shoot Doris Day
8. C1 Miniature
9. C2 No Sympathy
10. C3 Juxtapozed With U
11. D1 Presidential Suite
12. D2 Run! Christian, Run!
13. D3 Fragile Happiness

3CD
disc 1
1. Alternate Route To Vulcan Street
2. Sidewalk Serfer Girl
3. (drawing) Rings Around The World
4. It’s Not The End Of The World?
5. Receptacle For The Respectable
6. Touch Sensitive
7. Shoot Doris Day
8. Miniature
9. No Sympathy
10. Juxtapozed With U
11. Presidential Suite
12. Run! Christian, Run!
13. Fragile Happiness
- Receptacle For The Receptacle (maccapella Celery) – Unlisted, Hidden Track
14. Tradewinds
15. The Roman Road
16. Happiness Is A Worn Pun
17. Patience
18. Edam Anchorman
19. All The Shit U Do

Disc 2
1. Gypsy Space Muffin
2. John Spex
3. Miami Vice
4. Sanitised (rough Mix)
5. Chihuahua (unfinished, Rough Mix)
6. (drawing) Rings Around The World (acapella Phones) - Unlisted, Hidden Track
7. (drawing) Rings Around The World #1
8. (drawing) Rings Around The World #2
9. (drawing) Rings Around The World #3
10. No Sympathy
11. Tradewinds
12. Receptacle For The Respectable #1
13. Receptacle For The Respectable #2
14. Happiness Is A Worn Pun
15. Sidewalk Serfer Girl
16. Presidential Suite
17. The Roman Road
18. Patience #2
19. Shoot Doris Day
20. Edam Anchorman
21. Sanitised
22. Fragile Happiness
Tape Rewind - Unlisted, Hidden Track
Tradewinds (acoustic Mix) - Unlisted, Hidden Track
Sidewalk Serfer Girl (unused ’70s Rock Edit Section) - Unlisted, Hidden Track
Shoot Doris Day (excised Third Chorus) - Unlisted, Hidden Track
Sidewalk Serfer Girl (alternate Second Verse) - Unlisted, Hidden Track

disc 3
1. Alternate Route To Vulcan Street (bench Remix)
2. Sidewalk Serfer Girl (catatonia Remix)
3. (drawing) Rings Around The World (happy Chapel Remix)
4. It’s Not The End Of The World? (force Unknown Remix)
5. Receptacle For The Respectable (destructable Mix)
6. Touch Sensitive (force Unknown Remix)
7. Shoot Doris Day (wauvenfold Remix)
8. Miniature (goem Remix)
9. No Sympathy (kid 606 Remix)
10. Juxtapozed With U (sfa Remix)
11. Presidential Suite (high Llamas Remix)
12. Run! Christian, Run! (massimo Remix)
13. Fragile Happiness (brave Captain Remix)
Menu Music Medley - Unlisted, Hidden Track

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - RADIATOR: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the acclaimed Welsh indie rockers seminal 2nd album ‘Radiator’. A fusion of power pop, punk rock, techno and progressive rock - creating a shimmering, melodic, irreverent and artsy rock & roll. A heady, impressive kaleidoscope of sounds which, giving Radiator an intoxicating, otherworldly atmosphere. One of the few late-'90s albums that sounds inventive, vibrant, and utterly contemporary.

The 2CD, Download and HD versions comprise the original 1997 album beautifully remastered from the analogue tapes + B-sides, alternate versions and unreleased demos. Extended CD booklet includes booklet notes with new band interviews.

The 2LP is a special gatefold edition of the remastered original album on heavyweight vinyl.

CD and LP feature the original, iconic Pete Fowler ‘Monsterism’ album artwork and the Super Furry Animal’s hit singles: Hermann ♥'s Pauline, The International Language Of Screaming, Play It Cool, Demons.

Produced in association with Super Furry Animals and management. This release follows last year’s critically acclaimed 20th Anniversary re-issue of their remastered debut album ‘Fuzzy Logic’ (2CD/LP/DD) and ‘Zoom! The Best Of SFA’ (2CD/DD). These releases were accompanied by a sold-out UK auditorium tour, on which the band played the ‘Fuzzy Logic’ and ‘Radiator’ albums in full. 

TRACK LISTING

CD 1 – Album Plus Bonus Tracks

1. FURRYVISION™
2. THE PLACID CASUAL
3. THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF SCREAMING
4. DEMONS
5. SHORT PAINKILLER
6. SHE’S GOT SPIES
7. PLAY IT COOL
8. HERMANN ♥’S PAULINE
9. CHUPACABRAS
10. TORRA FY NGWALLT YN HIR
11. BASS TUNED TO D.E.A.D
12. DOWN A DIFFERENT RIVER
13. DOWNLOAD
14. MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
ICE HOCKEY HAIR E.P.

15. SMOKIN’
16. ICE HOCKEY HAIR
17. MU-TRON
18. LET’S QUIT SMOKING
ETC.

19. SMOKE
20. DIM YSMYGU
21. THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE
CD 2 / CLARITY JUST CONFUSES ME (BONUS TRACKS)

B SIDES & SUCH

1. CRYNDOD YN DY LAIS
2. HIT AND RUN
3. FOXY MUSIC
4. PASS THE TIME
5. CALIMERO
6. B SIDE
7. CARRY THE CAN
8. WRAP IT UP
9. TRÔNS MR. URDD
10. NO.K.
11. PLAY IT COOL (U.K. ALBUM MIX)
DEMO SESSION, BIG NOISE STUDIOS, CARDIFF, DECEMBER 1996 (CD ONLY)
12. SFA THEME (DEMO)
13. THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF SCREAMING (DEMO)
14. TORRA FY NGWALLT YN HIR (DEMO)
15. DOWN A DIFFERENT RIVER (DEMO)
16. SHE’S GOT SPIES (DEMO)
17. HIT AND RUN (DEMO)
18. MOUNTAIN PEOPLE (DEMO)
19. PLAY IT COOL (DEMO)
20. BASS TUNED TO D.E.A.D (DEMO)
21. NAFF GÂN (DEMO)
22. THE PLACID CASUAL (DEMO)
23. MUSIC BOX (DEMO)

Not as overtly ambitious as their recent work, SFA's unabashed return to simple power pop sees the group create their most coherent record since "Radiator". Eleven effortlessly crafted songs that hold together as an addictive pop album, "Hey Venus!" is by turns typically frenzied and blissfully relaxed. Combining the lush spacey arrangements and sun-kissed vocal harmonies characteristic of Spector, Wilson and Bacharach with more than a little glam rocker 'tude, Gruff and the boys have both rewarded long-term fans and delightfully converted those who had long since dismissed their wizardry (even in this very shop!) Despite its greater discipline, "Hey Venus!" sees them both continuing to progress whilst joyfully confounding expectations. Indeed, by embracing such disparate influences as soft-psych, lackadaisical soul and bubblegum pop, the Furries have once again proved their vitality and necessity to the pop music sphere.