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der sänger der super furry animals mit seinem zweiten soloalbum, release: 08.01.07 auf rough trade.
als einstieg vielleicht mal ein review von domino jones auf playlouder.com, amüsant:I’m sitting on a rather comfortable chair in Rough Trade’s small offices near Portobello Road in West London. I think there are about twenty journalists here for the preview of Gruff Rhys‘ second album, ‚Candylion‘. I recognise a couple of faces; next to me is Pete from The Times. He and I have done this a million times and he looks relaxed (he may even be asleep; he’s been doing it so long he doesn’t need to be awake to know what the score is). The others are small boys whose record collections begin with ‚Common People‘ and the assorted sniffers, snorters, winos and wankers that you expect at an event like this. Out for a free bar and maybe a wee line and what are we here for again?
At seven, after a couple of glasses of wine (and a quick toke with the guy who runs the veg stall outside, thanks Horace!) we are led into the listening room and invited to sit down. A guy named Olly comes in and passes round a tray on which are small capsules with ‚Candylion‘ stamped on their surface. I pop mine in my mouth and slip one into Pete’s (who is now deffo asleep. Never give him a comfy chair; he’s got kids for chrissakes). I notice that the boy from the NMEhas put his in his pocket, I’m still looking for my seat belt (I’m sitting on it of course) when a disembodied voice announces „This is just the beginning“.
I close my eyes; an acoustic guitar wafts in on the relative current flow from the huge speakers boosted by jumpy drums and deep bass. Gruff starts to sing about a lion in a land called Candy, not what I expected but that’s why we listen to Gruff in the first place. Turns out he’s tried a „penguin and carnation“ and „a lemon and Dalmatian“ but his biggest inspiration is a Candylion. How the hell am I going to explain this one when I get back to the office? He is joined by the sweet tones of Lisa Jen on the choruses, hope she comes back later. My lecherous reveries are broken by the snap of a snare and we’re into ‚The Court of King Arthur‘, which plods along nicely („plods“ is not a negative by the way) and features some cool spaghetti harmonica. Gruff’s voice sounds assured and relaxed, I’ve never heard him sing so well. Away from the squall and yelp of SFA he modulates mellower and rings richer, something which is immutable on the wonderful ‚Lonesome Words‘ which is an epic sounding Morricone masterpiece, galloping through plains full of trembling lasses and skating snares. What it lacks in whips and mariachi trumpets it makes up for in diving strings and thumping tubs.
‚Cycle of Violence‘ is even better; I nudge Pete but he’s already awake. I don’t know what’s in these capsules but my awareness is razor sharp and Gruff and Lisa team up in skintight harmony as the track rattles along at a breathless clip, like the Palace of Wheels flying towards Bharatpur across the Indian countryside. ‚Painting People Blue‘ starts like Renaissance Fair‘ (you can have that one, NME munchkin) and is lush. One of the journos present is doing that dance you see hippies do at the front of free festivals in the seventies (although there always seems to be just two of them) which is well funny, what? Ah, fuck the track’s finished. ‚Beacon in the Darkness‘ is a campfire ode-to-love that bounces along like a fat dog on an air bed and ‚Con Carino‘ is a symphonious drone, the Candylion sleeping tonight in a Spaceman 3 wonderland. My palms are becoming a little sweaty at this point and the music has gone well widescreen. ‚Gyrru Gyrru‘ just confuses me with its incessant repetition and I could use a drink of water. I open my eyes and there’s Olly, smiling as he hands me a large glass of cold lager, I won’t forget that Olly la. ‚Now that the Feeling has Gone‘ starts like Charlie Mingus and develops into a classic Gruff Rhys song, uplifting and melancholy at the same time. His bittersweet infamy assured he moves on to the catchy ‚Ffrwydriad yn y Ffurfafen; „I know the words to this one“ I yell and fall out of my chair. There is a minor incident involving a Rough Trade employee and myself at this point but I have too much dignity to divulge what it was, not until I’ve been up before the beak anyway. The last song ‚Skylon‘ is nearly fifteen fucking minutes long! It’s a Dylan ’66 type thing meaning that its long and it’s got loads of words in and is full of characters, incident and assignation. It’s also dead good; I tell anyone who will listen (nobody) that there was a huge structure near where the London Eye is now called the Skylon. Fucking massive it was and that confounded arse Churchill pushed it into the Thames where it still lies, waiting.
When I finally shut up I realise I’m alone. I let myself out, the sky is opaque and there is nobody to be seen, not even Horace. My mind is full of the sounds I just heard; Gruff Rhys is one of our most imaginative and original musicians. Cherish him before the aliens come. Come for to take him home.
die scheibe hinterlässt nach den ersten durchläufen einen prima eindruck. „candylion“ ist aufdringlich und freundlich, „the court of king arthur“ ein gelungener gassenhauer für den start in ein neues musikjahr, leicht psychedelisch angehaucht. diese note zieht sich durch das gesamte album, deshalb ist sofortiges erschließen meines erachtens äußerst schwierig. aber es hat die notwendigen zutaten, damit man am ball bleibt.
track listing
1. This Is Just the Beginning
2. Candylion
3. The Court Of King Arthur
4. Lonesome Words
5. Cycle Of Violence
6. Painting People Blue
7. Beacon In The Darkness
8. Con Carino
9. Gyrru Gyrru Gyrru
10. Now That The Feeling Is Gone
11. Ffrwydriad Yn Y Ffurfafen
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WerbungDer Bericht macht mich neugierig. Ich mag die meisten Sachen der Super Furry Animals ganz gerne. Vom letzten SFA-Album war ich allerdings enttäuscht. Wie unschwer zu erkennen ist, sind auch Songs mit walisischen Texten dabei.
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Blog: http://noirberts-artige-fotos.com Fotoalbum: Reggaekonzerte im Berlin der frühen 80er Jahre http://forum.rollingstone.de/album.php?albumid=755NorbertDer Bericht macht mich neugierig. Ich mag die meisten Sachen der Super Furry Animals ganz gerne. Vom letzten SFA-Album war ich allerdings enttäuscht. Wie unschwer zu erkennen ist, sind auch Songs mit walisischen Texten dabei.
lediglich 9 und 11.
interessant: conor oberst veröffentlicht das album auf seinem label, um es für den amerikanischen markt erreichbar zu machen.
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